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3 unusual facts about Half the sky


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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a 2009 book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Joan Osborne

In September 2012, Osborne was featured in a campaign called ″30 Songs / 30 Days″ to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book.

Lisa Witter

Most recently she led an awareness and action campaign around New York Times' Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s best-seller “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”


Zynga.org

In 2013, Zynga.org announced its partnership with Games for Change and Half the Sky Movement, led by journalists Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn, to help create a Facebook game based on the book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.


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Mukhtaran Bibi

In 2009 in the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Mukhtaran was the subject of chapter 4, "Rule by Rape".