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The Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) is now inviting nominations for its 13th annual Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life. Know more about the eligibility criteria and how you can nominate.

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Feminists that comprise the Coordinating Group of the 3rd Feminist Dialogues gathered together during the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya to examine the various issues they face in working across movements. What challenges have they identified in forging intermovement collaboration?

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A campaign dubbed “Women for a World Free from the Fundamentalisms” will be launched in time for the International Women’s Day on March 8, this year. A product of women’s collective ideas during the 2007 World Social Forum, this campaign is only one of many others that feminists are currently planning to work on.

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US-based Japanese-Canadian feminist and scholar Setsu Shigematsu shares her critique of the dominance of multicultural liberal feminism, which she argues excludes and marginalises anti-imperialist feminist discourse.  She also talks about the influences that inform her own critique, the Subic rape case, and a women-of-color radical feminist movement called INCITE!

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World-renowed women's rights advocate Angela King died on February 5, 2007, ending her  struggle with breast cancer. King was noted for her prolific role in advancing women's rights and promoting gender equality during her 40-year career at the United Nations.

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Beijing, China will serve as the venue for the upcoming “4th Regional Institute on Sexuality, Society, and Culture” on May 21-28, 2007, while a similar conference on “Dis/organized Pleasures: Changing Bodies, Rights, and Cultures” will be held on June 27-29, 2007 in Lima, Peru. Find out how you can participate.