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24.02.2006 One year ago this month, Joyce sat in a stifling hot cyber cafe in Nairobi, Kenya, and typed the first message on behalf of her village’s women’s group to what would become their “Sister Circle” halfway around the world. The ensuing relationship has had a profound effect on Jenni Prisk and her women's group in San Diego.

01.12.2005 Peace x Peace's Global Network uses the internet to link "circles" of U.S. women with women's circles around the world to inform, collaborate, and serve as mentors to each other. One of the newest circles is drawing on Kenyan women's natural tendency to self-organize and helping them overcome societal taboos to discuss issues like female circumcision and AIDS.

16.08.2005

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The latest edition of Peace Times focuses on how the internet is impacting women in rural and urban India. It is a collection of reflections by PEACE X PEACE staff and liaisons who recently traveled in India. From Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, to New Delhi, the country's capital, staffers came across several women who are living out Gandhi's philosophy of being the change they want to see in the world, and seeing that change intersect with the disseminative power of the Internet.

12.08.2005 How is the confluence of women-power and the Internet changing things in the world’s most populous democracy? Patricia Smith Melton recently met with women across all strata of Indian society and says that continuing progress will occur through the IT sector and through women in organized programs at all levels of the culture.

21.07.2005 In western Afghanistan, Herat hosted Alexander the Great and served as Persia's education capital. A major trade city today, Herat is also at the center of the opium trade, with over 70,000 citizens addicts themselves. Peace X Peace's Teressa Rerras reports on the women of Herat and the challenges in their future.