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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sandra Spady pr@womensenews.org 212-244-1720 March 29, 2009 Watch Our Space: Watch our space for a new series on sex trafficking in Ecuador's porous border region and the impact to women's lives by Dominique Soguel. Cover Story: Online Chat Spotlights Most-Ailing Millenium Goal By Charlotte Cooper MDG 5 envisions reducing maternal deaths 75 percent by 2015. Of all the promises to the world's distressed people, it is the least likely to meet its target. Last week, advocates in India and Ghana said more political willpower is needed fast. Read the full article at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3964 Other news on the Women's eNews site: Cheers and Jeers: News from all over that makes us laugh or work just a bit harder. Read the full article at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3963 Podcast: http://www.womensenews.org/WEnews.mp3 Please wait 30 seconds for downloading. Commentary: Women's Media: It's Time to Focus on Funding By Ariel Dougherty Media inattention to Women's History Month doesn't stop there. It extends to such deadly horrors as sexual violence in war-torn areas of the world. Ariel Dougherty says that's why she's spearheading a new way of funding women-focused media projects. Read the full article at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3962 19 Companies Certify as Female-Contractor Friendly By Jennifer Thurston 
 Female Candidates Enter 2009 Campiagn Queue By Allison Stevens
 Commentary: Women Need to Know Their New Jobless Benefits By Mimi Abramovitz
 Senate Bill Could Help Women Keep Homes By Sharon Johnson 
 Commentoon by Ann Telnaes Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes is once again brilliantly sharp. See this week's Commentoon at: http://www.womensenews.org Permissions to reprint and repost Women's eNews content are always available. Just click on the copyright.com link at the bottom of each of our pages. Questions? Visit our reprint FAQ's: http://www.womensenews.org/reprint_faq.cfm About Women's eNews Women's eNews is a prize-winning nonprofit news service supported by its readers and other donors. Launched in 1999, the independent media outlet provides news coverage unavailable anywhere else of substantive issues of particular concern to women and their allies. Rita Henley Jensen is founder and editor in chief. For more information or to inquire about subscribing, permissions to reprint or licensing arrangements, please contact Sandra Spady at 212-244-1720 or e-mail her at sandra@womensenews.org. For interviews with Women's eNews editor in chief Rita Henley Jensen, e-mail her at rita@womensenews.org, or call 212-244-1720.
The president of the group that certifies companies as friendly to female contractors is pleased with this year's roster and sees further gains in an Obama review of federal contracting policy and the massive stimulus package. Read the full article at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3961
Female hopefuls are already throwing their hats into the ring for elections in 2009 and 2010, vying for vacated seats and challenging incumbents. Political observers say the interest from women could help boost their numbers in Congress. Read the full article at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3960
The bad news is that so many people are losing their jobs. The good news, says Mimi Abramovitz, are three new rules about jobless benefits in the Obama stimulus package that are bound to help women and correct a major gender bias. Read the full article at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3959
Women are almost twice as likely as men to hold subprime mortgages. That means the ability of many to hang on to their homes could be tied up with Senate action--expected this month--on a bill to reduce mortgage payments. Read the full article at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3958
