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GRITtv: REFRAKA: Giving Haitian Women A Voice
REFRAKA, a Creole acronym for Women's Community Radio Network, was founded in Haiti in 2001 as a way to make women's voices heard around the country. On January 12, it took on a new meaning as, like many other organizations in Haiti, it suffered from the earthquake. Nevertheless, REFRAKA has continued to not only restructure Haiti's patriarchal society, but now integrates rural women's opinions on this historical tragedy as well as the reconstruction process into the media.
Email this pageGRITtv: Taking Iraq's Contracting Lessons to Afghanistan
Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, tells the Huffington Post Investigative Fund about waste of reconstruction funds in Afghanistan similar to that in Iraq--some $51 billion has been allocated to rebuild and stabilize, but tracking those funds proves next to impossible.
