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GFDD Attends Closing Ceremony of CSW59 Confirming Brazil as Next Chair of CSW60
Following two weeks of negotiations and deliberations on the topic of gender equality (March 9-20, 2015), GFDD attended the closing ceremony of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women which came to a head before a packed auditorium at UN Headquarters in New York. The session chaired by H.E. Kanda Vajrabhaya, former Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security of The Kingdom of Thailand, led to the adoption of the draft report
of the Commission on its fifty-ninth session (E/CN.6/2015/L.4) and the election by acclamation of H.E. Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, as the Chair of the 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Dominican Evening at the EFF
The Dominican Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) hosted a Dominican evening as part of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (EFF), with screenings and a panel at the Gala Hispanic Theater. Lago Enriquillo: Preludio del cambio climático and Mañana, winner of the Globo Verde Dominicano Award 2014, were shown to an enthusiastic audience who sought to know more about the environmental situation in the Dominican Republic and its
exquisite natural resources. The DREFF – an initiative of GFDD – also organized a panel discussion that followed the screenings. Natasha Despotovic, Executive Director of the DREFF, oversaw the panel and introduced the films’ directors, Fernando Báez and Carlos García.

Inclusion of New Technology in Education Begins with Quality of Teachers
The Center for Education Studies of the Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) and its sister institution in the United States, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), in coordination with Microsoft Dominicana and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT) kicked of the Forum on Higher Education and Innovation on Wednesday, March 18th.

InteRDom Travels to New Orleans for Forum on Education Abroad Annual Conference
“It Takes a Campus and More: The Faces of Education Abroad,” is this year’s theme for The Forum on Education Abroad Conference. InteRDom representatives will attend the 11th annual conference from March 25-27, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Forum on Education Abroad (FEA) is a non-profit organization recognized as the Standards Development Organization (SDO) for the field of education abroad. This will be the first time InteRDom has participated in this important
conference on education abroad.

GFDD & Funglode Host Presentation of a Research Study on Elimination of Violence against Women in the Dominican Republic before a Packed UN Auditorium
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and its sister organization in the Dominican Republic, Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations and the Dominican Political Observatory (OPD by its Spanish acronims) of Funglode, hosted on March 18 the presentation of a research study at the United Nations on The Elimination of Violence Against Women. The event, which was
organized in parallel to the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59) was very well attended with close to 100 participants.

Students from Santiago and Santo Domingo Travel to the Cocoa Trail with RDescubre Program
A group of 50 outstanding students from 10 schools in Santiago and Santo Domingo participated yesterday in the educational excursion to theCocoa Trail, in the province of San Francisco de Macorís, an excursion organized by GFDD/Funglode’s RDescubre program, in collaboration with Plan Lean of Listín Diario.

DREFF: Special Guest at the DC Environmental Film Festival Opening in Washington, D.C.
The Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), a GFDD’s initiative, was invited as a special guest to the opening night and launch party of the 23rd Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF). The opening was held at a fully packed Elihu Root Auditorium of the Carnegie Institution for Science on March 17, 2015 with the Washington, D.C. premiere of Bikes vs. Cars.

GFDD Celebrates Dominican Women Writers
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) participated at the XIII International Book Fair of Dominican Women Writer, where several authors were honored for their contribution to Dominican literature. The inauguration took place at the Auditorium of Isabella Home Center in New York on March, where the opening remarks were made by Rosita Romero, founder and Executive Director of the Dominican Women’s Development Center (DWDC), who thanked everyone “for their
support to the book fair, where the Dominican diaspora talent, represented by workers and talented women, is recognized.“

GFDD Submits Written Statement on the Eradication of Violence against Women in the Dominican Republic for the Opening Ceremony of CSW 59
Following the Opening Ceremony of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) on Monday March 9, 2015, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) released a written statement on the official website of CSW59 on the topic of the eradication of violence against women, calling for a coordinated response to this pandemic at all levels and by all relevant stakeholder groups.

“The Acceleration of Change”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
With the publication of El Gran Cambio (The Great Change), prominent national historian Frank Moya Pons delivered a withering blow to the traditional pessimism among the Dominican intellectual elite and introduced a new paradigm of national historical interpretation on change, progress, and transformation.