by Stephenie Foster | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
We’ve both come a long way and have a long way to go
by Stephenie Foster | Feb 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
We had another amazing (and packed) day, starting at 7 am and ending around 10 pm. We met with candidates for office and those providing extraordinary service to Haitians. We started with a 7 am mass at St. Damiens, a complex of hospitals and school rooms, located 500...
by Stephenie Foster | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Im here in Port Au Prince on a trip organized by my fellow member of the Women Donors Network, Maria Bello. Maria has a deep commitment to Haiti and to working with Haitians to develop sustainable and long term solutions to real problems. There are seven of us here,...
by Stephenie Foster | Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
I just put down the recent report by Margaret Sekaggya, the UN Special Rapporteur, on the situation of human rights defenders, available at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/16session/A-HRC-16-44.pdf. Her December 2010 report was her third report to...
by Stephenie Foster | Feb 11, 2011 | Women in the Middle East/North Africa
I just left a talk by Dawn Calabia, senior advisor at Refugees International on the situation of refugees in Afghanistan. Sponsored by the Womens Foreign Policy Group, the talk brought together a diverse group to hear about Dawns November 2010 three week trip to...