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“Women and girls have dreams, but femicide steals those dreams”, States the Dominican Deputy Attorney General for Women Affairs During GFDD UN Event
GFDD hosted a panel discussion at the UN today to celebrate the 60th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60). The event, entitled “Efforts to Reduce Violence against Women and Promote Gender Empowerment in the Dominican Republic and Abroad”, looked to contribute to the review theme of CSW60: The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.
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Parents and Children Learn About Creative Recycling at School
As part of a series of workshops, organized by GFDD’s ReCrearte program through March in New York, on Wednesday the 16th, Juan Pablo Duarte School opened its doors to around 60 parents and 30 children. The workshop by ReCrearte coordinator Bertha Santana was possible thanks to the collaboration of the institution´s Parents Association, in particular Carmen Rojas, and the support of the Dominican Consulate in NY.
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“The Mystery of Oil Prices”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
Over production by OPEC countries and a drop in demand from China has driven down the price of “black gold.” Although in recent weeks, prices have gone up again due to speculation in the futures market.
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Discussing the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
GFDD participated in the United Nations Environment Programme”s (UNEP”s) round table discussion and consultation ahead of the UN Environment Assembly on "Delivering the Environmental Dimension of the UN”s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda." The event took place on 17 March 2016 at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Celebrating Women at the DCEFF
For the 4th year, Women in Film and Video hosted a breakfast at Restaurant Nora in Washington D.C. during the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation´s Capital (DCEFF) to celebrate women and film. On this occasion, the director of the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), Natasha Despotovic, who presented the latest GFDD production, Value of Life – codirected by her-participated in a panel with other two renowned directors of documentaries, Sandy
Cannon-Brown (Beautiful Swimmers Revisited) and Marilyn Weiner (Dispatches from the Gulf).
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Children Learn to Create Art from Trash at the Riverfront Library in Yonkers
The Riverfront Library of Yonkers, New York, hosted Yesterday a group of 32 children who learned about creating art with discarded materials that would normally end up in the trash bin. As part of a series of workshops, organized by GFDD’s ReCrearte program, children will learn to turn trash into new objects and create recycled art at the hand of project coordinator Bertha Santana. The children, with great enthusiasm, were making bookmarks from old library flyers and
buttons. The program will run throughout March in different locations in New York.
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Leonel Fernández Presents the 2015 Funglode/GFDD Awards
Fernández led the ninth awards presentation alongside Marco Herrera, executive director of Funglode; José Rafael Lantigua, director of Funglode’s Center for Cultural Studies; and Catherine Florentino, director of the Funglode/GFDD Awards.
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“Donald Trump: The Return of Paranoid Politics”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
His personality shows a certain air of delusions of grandeur, of arrogance, of egocentrism and megalomania. Everything has his name on it: the Trump jet, Trump Tower, Trump University, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump Casino …
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Join Us to Celebrate Recycled Art!
ReCrearte, an initiative of GFDD/Funglode, focuses on the three R’s of sustainability- reduce, reuse, and recycle. Workshops concentrate on repurposing discarded materials into new objects that can be sold for income and waste that can be turned into art. Bertha Santana, the program’s coordinator will be visiting New York City for a series of workshops throughout the city.
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Colombian Ambassador Urges Global Cooperation to Help Tackle Public Health Issues like the Zika Virus Outbreak
For this February edition of the GFDD Global Roundtables, GFDD Executive Director, Natasha Despotovic welcomed H.E. Andrés González Díaz, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the Organization of American States.
