Power Women Fighting For Women's Issues

Posted by : Fahmina Arshad Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Power Women Fighting For Women's Issues

We always keep our eyes on the toppers, no one bothers to know who helped them to climb the ladder or who is behind the show. The Power Women list honors women who've reached the top. But what of those who have made it their mission to make power accessible to other women?

Here i try to bring those names in the light who have made their mission

to empower the other women. Mention here just few amazing women out of so many.

Molly Melching

1. Molly Melching

is the founder and executive director of Tostan (meaning "breakthrough" in the Wolof language), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) whose mission it is to empower African communities for sustainable development and social transformation in the respect of human rights.

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Melanee Verveer

2. Melanee Verveer

Melanne Verveer is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international nonprofit that supports emerging women leaders in building vibrant democracies and strong economies. click here for more

Somaly Mam

3. Somaly Mam

Somaly Mam is the recipient of the First Roland Berger Human Dignity Award.

Universally recognized as a visionary for her courage, dignity, ingenuity, and resilience, Somaly was honored as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and was featured as a CNN Hero. click here for more.

Catherine Hamlin

4. Catherine Hamlin

Catherine Hamlin, an Australian ob-gyn who has spent her career in Ethiopia caring for women with obstetric fistulas and revolutionized fistula. If you want to know more about Catherine, click here.

5. Sakena Yacoobi

Sakena Yacoobi, an Afghan woman who educates girls in her country and struggles to improve health care there. Professor Sakena Yacoobi co founded CHI and is President and Executive Director of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL). Yacoobi founded AIL in 1995 to provide teacher training to Afghan women, to support education for boys and girls, and to provide health education to women and children. Click here for more.

Zainab Salbi

6. Zainab Salbi

Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi immigrant who started Women for Women International and campaigns tirelessly on behalf of women's rights.Zainab Salbi is the founder of Women for Women International and served as the organization's CEO from 1993 to 2011. She is the author of two books.

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Esther Duflo

7. Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo, a French economist at MIT who has had a vast impact on the study of global poverty – and of the women who endure it. 2009 MacArthur fellow Esther Duflo is pushing the field of development economics by studying specific causal relationships that lead to or perpetuate poverty. She looks at close-to-home issues: household behavior, education, access to finance and health. Esther Duflo takes economics out of the lab and into the field to discover the causes of poverty and means to eradicate it.

Roshaneh Zafar

8. Roshaneh Zafar

Roshaneh Zafar, who started a leading micro finance organization in Pakistan, empowering women and boosting their opportunities. Ms. Roshaneh Zafar is the Founder and Managing Director of Kashf Foundation, Chair of Kashf Holdings and Founder of Kashf Microfinance Bank Limited based in Pakistan.Ms. Zafar is also the founding member of the Pakistan Microfinance Network and sits on the board of several NGOs and networks, including Women’s World Banking, Pakistan Microfinance Network and Kaarvan Crafts. for more
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Helen Gayle

9. Helen Gayle

Helene Gayle, who heads CARE and before that was a leading light in the global fight against AIDS. Helene Gayle, who heads CARE and before that was a leading light in the global fight against AIDS.
Dr. Helene Gayle is president and CEO of CARE USA, a humanitarian organization with more than 10,000 on-staff. In 2010 alone, their 905 poverty-fighting campaigns in 87 countries reached 82 million people, more than half of whom are women. One of Dr. Gayle's biggest priorities at CARE is in empowering girls and women to bring lasting change to poor communities.