Thanks to friends, colleagues and tweeters for their fabulous news links and as ever, to the invaluable news round up from the Women's Funding Network.

G20 & GIRLS
Playing for high stakes at the G20: The G20 summit at the end of this week must address the need for safe abortion if it is to bring down death rates in pregnancy, as the Canadian government has pledged - and it must deliver on its former pledge to keep people with HIV/Aids in Africa alive (Sarah Boseley, The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2010/jun/2...

To G8 Leaders: Stand and Deliver for World's Women and Children (Leila Nimatallah, Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leila-nimatallah/g8-leaders-focus-on-world...

Protesters demand G8/G20 leaders address rights of women and girls around the world (John Bonnar, Rabble.ca)
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/johnbon/2010/06/protesters-demand-g8g20-...

G(irls) 20 Summit delegates: The G(irls)20 Summit, a meeting of 21 girls from around the world, will gather June 15 to 18 at the University of Toronto to discuss and raise awareness of the most pressing issues that affect girls and women internationally (Stronach Foundation, Globe and Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/maternal/girls-20-summi...

 

If girls ran the world, the G20 would focus on poverty, climate change (The Canadian Press)
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/if-girls-ran-the-wo...

EMPOWERING STORIES
Surprise! Immigration Is A Woman’s Issue! (Gloria Steinem and Pramila Jayapal, Women's Media Centre)
http://womensmediacenter.com/blog/2010/06/exclusive-surprise-immigration...

Young immigrants tell their own stories through empowering film program (Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press)
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/home_family/young-immigrants-tell-...

'I was looking for a trans counter-culture'(Juliet Jacques, The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/16/transgender-journey-t...

 

IT'S THOSE GIRLS AGAIN
Playing at Sexy (Peggy Orenstein, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13fob-wwln-t.html

Message to Miley: Put on some damn clothes (Tanya Enberg, Toronto Sun)
http://www.torontosun.com/blogs/tanya_enberg/2010/06/23/14491086.html

POP CULTURE
Lady Power: Lady Gaga deconstructed (Nancy Bauer, New York Times)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/lady-power/

Top 100 Websites For Women (Meghan Casserly and Jenna Goudreau, Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/23/100-best-womens-blogs-forbes-woman-time...

Rent a White Guy: Confessions of a fake businessman from Beijing (Mitch Moxley, The Atlantic)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119

DATING VIOLENCE
Text messages become a growing weapon in dating violence (Donna St. George, Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/20/AR201006...

FEMINISM AND...
Fathers: In praise of pro-feminist fathers (Aalya Ahmad, Rabble.ca)
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/aalya/2010/06/praise-pro-feminist-fathers

Men: Feminism of the Future Relies on Men (Katrin Bennhold, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/world/europe/23iht-letter.html

What? Women Don’t Help Each Other? (Adriana Gardella, New York Times)
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/women-dont-help-each-other/

HIV: Female empowerment can help fight HIV, researchers say (LA Times)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/06/female-empowerment...

Lost mystique? No Mystique About Feminism (Ross Douthat, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/opinion/14douthat.html

Responses: Today’s Feminist: A Different Breed?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/opinion/l21women.html?ref=todayspaper

POLITICS & ECONOMY

The "mancession": Feminist economics questions market premises, priorities (Elsie Hambrook, Straightgoods.ca)
http://www.straightgoods.ca/2010/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=587&Cookies=yes

Layoffs threaten male identity: Now females breadwinners (Grace Macaluso, The Windsor Star)
http://www.windsorstar.com/business/Layoffs+threaten+male+identity/31097...

Gender Apartheid Online (Ruth Rose, Common Dreams.org)
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/17-5

Women have made major inroads as police officers: A brief history of Canadian women in policing (Sudbury Star)
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2610391

An inconvenient Ruth: Sen. Nancy Ruth’s plain speaking has landed her in trouble, and won her some surprising fans (Aaron Wherry, Maclean's)
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/06/02/an-inconvenient-ruth/

NON PROFIT NEWS
Strategies for being a Better Networked Nonprofit (Allyson Kapin, Frogloop)
http://www.frogloop.com/care2blog/2010/6/14/strategies-for-being-a-bette...

Kellogg Foundation Awards $3 Million to Women's Funding Network
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml;jsessionid=YENBAFVMGQF3...

The $600 billion challenge: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett are asking the nation's billionaires to pledge to give at least half their net worth to charity, in their lifetimes or at death. If their campaign succeeds, it could change the face of philanthropy (CNN Money)
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/16/gates-buffett-600-billi...

INTERNATIONAL
Julia Gillard joins a list of female world leaders: Australia's new prime minister takes her place beside 18 other elected female leaders. But does a woman at the top make any difference to the lives of ordinary women? (Emine Saner, The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/24/julia-gillard-autralia-prime...

 

UN works to boost girls' educations (Anne Look, Globalpost)
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/education/100618/girls-africa-united-...

Women Struggle for a Foothold in Chinese Politics (Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/world/asia/25iht-letter.html

Empowerment in India: Despite being a Dalit or "untouchable" woman Roshni Devi, 36, was elected in north India and has transformed the village of Kothal Khurd (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/09/india-women

Sexual Assaults Add to Miseries of Haiti’s Ruins (Deborah Sontag, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/world/americas/24haiti.html?pagewanted...