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    What Can “We” Do About Human Trafficking?

    • January 13, 2016
    It’s hard to remember now, but it was only recently that human trafficking – which is a growing global problem of enormous scale – was something that most people simply…
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    Mary Harriman Enters the Women’s Hall of Fame!

    • October 2, 2015
    This athlete became a world class figure skater after overcoming polio. This woman promised her dying sister she would help find a way to eradicate breast cancer. This dance entrepreneur’s…
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      How was your Valentine’s Day?

      • February 19, 2015
      (The following appeared on The Huffington Post on Feb. 17, 2015) I received my Valentine’s Day gift in Guatemala City from an elderly woman living in a nursing home in…
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        The leaders we lost in 2014

        • January 28, 2015
        Sometimes leadership happens quietly, behind the scenes. Sometimes it’s big and bold. In 2014, we lost powerful women of both kinds. Some were blazing stars of the stage and screen…
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          Have a say in your future: Cast your vote on Nov. 4 and be thankful that you can

          • November 3, 2014
          As early as 1848, numerous women’s groups were lending their time, their energy and their imaginations to the fight for the right to vote in the United States. The suffragettes…
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          Expressing gratitude to a forgotten workforce

          • September 18, 2014
          In this increasingly mobile world, hotels have become an essential channel of communication for important messages. Past campaigns have alerted guests to the millions of gallons of water used in…
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            Equal Futures Partnership

            • March 25, 2014
            March 10 – 21 marked the convening of the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Over the course of…
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              New hope in the fight against prostitution and sex trafficking

              • August 10, 2013
              Over the last decade we’ve watched the world’s newest technology enable the world’s oldest profession to flourish. Just as the Internet has put fashion and furniture in the hands of…
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              U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer
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                Advocacy in many forms at AJLI’s 91st Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

                • June 13, 2013
                Though we don’t typically use this space to comment on the business of the Association, several magical things happened last month that we thought were worth sharing with a broader…
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                  Does How You See Yourself Affect Your Self-Esteem?

                  • April 30, 2013
                  In Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s 2011 Sundance Film Festival entry “MissRepresentation,” many of the high-profile interviewees suggested that the portrayal of women in the media—provocative magazine covers, violent video games, demeaning…
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