RESULTS in the NewsMuhammad Yunus to Receive Presidential Medal of FreedomRESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund extend heartfelt congratulations to Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and longtime RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund board member, on the announcement that he will be awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House made public yesterday that Professor Yunus will be one of the sixteen recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Professor Yunus will receive the award from President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on August 12, 2009. Join RESULTS at Marianne Williamson’s Sister Giant Conference This WeekendRESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund Board Member Marianne Williamson is organizing a three day Sister Giant conference February 26–28, 2010, in Los Angeles to empower women to be major players in changing the world. Day number three will focus on engaging participant in RESULTS. Guardian: Desmond Tutu asks G8 leaders to get world’s children into schoolNobel laureate implores Gordon Brown and Barack Obama ahead of G8 summit to create new global fund for education by end of 2009. Voice of America: G8 Asked to Create Global Education FundNobel laureates and leading human rights activists issued a call for the creation of a Global Fund for Education. They say hundreds of millions of young children and adolescents are unable to attend school and about 770-million adults remain illiterate. Forbes.com: Congress’ Chance To Change The IMFOp-ed by RESULTS Executive Director Joanne Carter and Peter Bujari, executive director of the Human Development Trust in Tanzania. Inter Press Service: NGOs Oppose Nearly $100 Billion Pledge to IMFA broad coalition of civil society groups, as well as some U.S. lawmakers, is fighting what they call a “blank cheque” from the U.S. to expand funding for the International Monetary Fund. Chronicle of Philanthropy: Global-Health Groups Upset by President’s Budget ProposalPresident Obama’s proposal to spend $8.6-billion next year on what he dubbed a “new, comprehensive global-health strategy” has drawn ire from some global-health charities, which say he has requested far less to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria than he had previously pledged. Reuters: Watchdog gives World Bank a mixed review on healthThe World Bank’s internal watchdog group on April 30, 2009, gave the poverty-fighting agency a mixed review for its efforts to improve health in poor countries and gave it low marks for its work in Africa. Observer: Can the IMF Now Feed the World?The London G20 summit tripled the resources of the International Monetary Fund and made it a major force again, responsible for saving national economies hit by the global crash. But given its recent track record, will its policies do more harm than good? Huffington Post: Jordan’s Queen Rania, Congresswoman Nita Lowey Launch “The Big Read”Queen Rania of Jordan joined other leading education advocates Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury Gene Sperling to launch “The Big Read” as part of Global Campaign for Education's global action week calling for quality basic education for all children. |