#HaitiTech: Keeping Women and Girls in Focus

Posted by Ruth Bennett / May 10, 2010

Child holds baby outside damaged house in Port-au-Prince, Jan. 17, 2010. [AP Photo]

About the Author: Ruth Bennett serves as the Public Affairs Advisor for the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI).

How do you spread a message about ending violence and discrimination against women in a society in which approximately half the people can't read or write? If you're Digital Democracy, you do it by supplying women with cameras -- and, more importantly, by supplying them with training and education about the power of images.

As Digital Democracy co-director Emily Jacobi explained at the May 10 #HaitiTech Meet Up at the State Department, building on Haiti's rich oral storytelling traditions makes sense on a number of levels: not only do the women produce compelling documentation of the problems they face as… more »

Posted under: Economic Empowerment

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Global Women’s Issues: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Posted by Ruth Bennett / January 01, 2010

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About the Author: Ruth Bennett serves as the Public Affairs Advisor for the Secretary's Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI).

Like many offices in the State Department, we use the last two weeks of the year to review where we’ve been and map out where we’re heading. This year, it’s an easy assessment to make. January 2009, we didn’t exist. December 2009, so many people are talking – and, yes, sometimes arguing, but at least talking about and carefully… more »

Posted under: Policy

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