Between December 10th and 12th, 2013, the Virtue Foundation co-sponsored the 2013 Women in Justice Conference, State Responsibility for Eliminating violence Against Women: The Due Diligence Principle and the Role of Judges. Led by the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School, this conference brought together more than 30 judges from…
In November, as a continuation of our Tumu Healthcare Initiative, our Austrian team from the University of Vienna will return to Tumu, Ghana to provide services and training toward improving maternal health and women’s healthcare service delivery in the region.
Virtue Foundation honors the first United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer at our annual fundraiser. A long-time champion for women’s empowerment, Verveer is an innovative thought leader working tirelessly for gender equality and women and girls’ rights globally.
Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek & The Daily Beast, discusses Virtue Foundation’s work in the areas of Acid Violence and Women Empowerment.
Our President and Co-Founder Dr. Joseph Salim was invited to present at the U.S. State Department’s “Global Initiative – Women in Action” International Visitor Leadership Program at the United Nations in New York.
In Tumu in northwestern Ghana, there’s only one hospital to serve 100,000 people and transportation is scarce. The result: injured children never see a doctor, women die in labor before they can reach medical help. But those appalling facts started to change when Women in the World, Virtue Foundation and Toyota came along with a few simple solutions.
On December 6, 2012, Vice President and Co-Founder Dr. Joan LaRovere spoke at the Menopause, Andropause and Anti-Aging Congress in Vienna, Austria. Her talk, “Matching Resource with Need: Data Mapping to Understand Maternal Mortality and Women’s Health,” centered on our collaborative work with the University of Vienna Medical Center in Tumu, Ghana.
Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana, in partnership with the Office of the Honorable Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School, renewed scholarships for promising young women lawyers chosen to clerk for the Supreme Court of Ghana. Enam Antonio…
Virtue Foundation volunteer obstetricians/gynecologists visit Tumu Hospital to examine patients and plan long-term collaboration for women’s health in northern Ghana. As part of the Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana’s Healthcare Initiative, Professor Egarter and Dr. Nouri, specialists from the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital, Vienna,…
As part of the Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana’s Healthcare Initiative, Professor Egarter and Dr. Nouri, specialists from the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital, Vienna, visited Tumu to examine patients, assess the reproductive and maternal health situation and plan for long-term evidence-based interventions to improve…