Grassroots Women Claim Their Roles and Cities at the Grassroots Academy in Rio de Janeiro"
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FEATURED NEWS: Huairou/GROOTS leaders--Esther Mwaura Muiru and Sandy Schilen--are featured in 35 minute film just released by the Paris based Institut Governance entitled "The Access of Self-Help Networks to the International Arena." A composite of interviews with leaders of grassroots and mutual self help movements around the world--including GROOTS--International Community of Women Living with Aids (ICW), Slum Dwellers International, and Homenet--the film focuses on the social change and movement building agenda these civil society actors are driving and their unique perspectives on key issues. To view the film visit: http://www.institut-gouvernance.org/index_en.html and see the Meetings/Movies section of the cover page. A conference report covering a 3 day workshop held on these themes can also be downloaded there. Production of the film and the exchange dialogue were funded, in part, by Lisa Jordan, the Deputy Director of the Global Governance and Civil Society Unit of the Ford Foundation in 2009.
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>Click here to view Women Around the World Pledge Solidarity to Haiti
