Here’s what we’ve been reading about this week:

The Kaiser Foundation revealed that the American public wants to maintain or increase funding for global health and development in findings from a  recent survey.

Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon are negotiating a contract for fair labor laws.

In an article for The American Prospect, Michelle Goldberg raised the question of “rights vs. rites” when it comes to discussing female genital mutilation/circumcision (via Feministing).

The economic global crisis is hitting African women the hardest, according to a new interview posted on the Huffington post with Mwila Chigaga, ILO Regional Senior Gender Specialist (original article by IPS).

World Pulse Magazine highlights extraordinary examples of women taking on leadership roles in the historically male-dominated coffee industry of Peru.

Sex workers in Ecuador are building a national labor network and trying to curb HIV/AIDS.

And right here on Akimbo, we blogged about…

…child marriage as gender-based violence in the second of a three-part series,  just as legislation was introduced in the House and the Senate seeking to eliminate the practice globally

…writing to local Dominican Republic embassies to speak out against the disturbing effects that Article 30 would have on reproductive health and rights.

…Dr. Grace Kodindo awarded the Millennium Development Goal Torch

…what you can do to support the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriag Act

…La Gran Marcha, a protest in the Dominican Republic against Article 30′s proposed infringements on reproductive rights, and pictures of the event on our Flickr photostream