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		<title>Candidates for Election 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION 2010 The following WG-USA members will stand for election to the board. Elections will take place online: September 17-24, 2010 Information about the candidates is also available on our website at: http://www.wg-usa.org/c_nominations.shtml CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY &#8211; Not Available CANDIDATE FOR MEMBERSHIP CONVENER CAROLYN COWGILL has just completed a term as Secretary, WG-USA. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=580</link>
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		<title>Annual General Meeting 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; September 25, 2010 &#160; 11 a.m. &#8211; 1 p.m. EDT Teleconference Information to follow]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=568</link>
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		<title>WG-USA Supports US Ratification of CEDAW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the 2009 annual meeting in Long Beach, Women Graduates-USA voted to join the official list of more than 200 American NGOs that support US ratification of CEDAW. Our organization is now officially registered with the CEDAW Task Force, which is housed at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights in Washington, D.C. Women [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=565</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to Un Secretary General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please find attached a letter the IFUW Board of Officers is sending to the United Nation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for gender equality in all UN appointed committees. One of IFUW’s priorities is the promotion of women in leadership positions in all settings. As early as 1966, IFUW adopted a resolution urging the UN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=562</link>
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		<title>Program Priorities 2010-2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this year, 2010, many disparate issues affect the well being of women around the world. A cynic might ask any woman today, “What do you want? Haven’t women, especially (those in an affluent western world) gained ‘enough already’? After all, those status of women commissions have been around for quite a while now and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=557</link>
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		<title>March is Women&#8217;s History Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 20 members from Women Graduates-USA attended the sessions at the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations in New York City. These sessions marked the 15th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995 and &#8220;The Platform for Action&#8221; that resulted from that meeting. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=548</link>
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		<title>Program Priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Women Graduates-USA Program committee is putting the final touches on the Program Priorities for 2010. One of those priorities is The Convention of the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). For the next several months, WG-USA will be informing its members about this most important UN Convention along with a plan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=549</link>
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		<title>Suggested Reading for Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you planning to attend the IFUW Triennial Conference in Mexico City in 2010? Having lived there from 1959-1961 and visited it a couple of times since, I have maintained a lively interest in our neighbor to the south. Here is a list of books on Mexico available in English that I have found useful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=502</link>
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		<title>Regional Reports from the 2010 NGO Global Forum for Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regional reports from the 2010 NGO Global Forum for Women are available at: http://www.beijing15.org/?page_id=13 NGO Shadow Reports from countries and regions are also available there. If the link does not work, please go to www.beijing15.org and click on resources and documents. Scroll down to see the full list of reports and resources.]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=497</link>
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		<title>2010 CSW advances key issues for world’s women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more than 3,500 civil society representatives and hundreds of government delegates who traveled, often long distances, to New York for this year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), it was an occasion to mark large and small victories over the last 15 years and to focus on the challenges that remain. It has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wg-usa.org/groups/?p=473</link>
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