Abstract: . . .  http://www.worldpulsemagazine.com/newsletters/200507/1. html "African women are no longer dying for Africa, but living for Africa!" Wahu Kaara, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee A Place Where Women Rule All-Female Village in Kenya Is a Sign Of Burgeoning Feminism Across Africa By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service UMOJA, Kenya -- Seated cross-legged on tan sisal mats in the shade, Rebecca Lolosoli, matriarch of a village for women only, took the hand of a frightened 13-year-old girl. The child was expected to wed a man nearly three times her age, and Lolosoli told her she didn't have to. Read more at http://www.worldpulsemagazine.com/newsletters/200507/2. html COMMENTARY: Investing in women is smart by Ritu Sharma, Women's Edge Coalition Ending poverty around the world is entirely possible; we just need our world leaders to step up to the plate to help make it happen. And this year, leaders of the world's wealthiest nations have a tremendous opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of the poor by tackling head-on some of the pressing global issues of our time: aid, trade and debt. With the year 2005 labeled "Make Poverty History," and a series of upcoming high- level international events with global poverty as their main focus, beginning with the July G8 Summit in Scotland, world leaders . . .
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