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and Women Thrive Worldwide organized meetings with members of the

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to work toward legislation to combat violence against women and girls around the world. These meetings led to the 2007

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, which was introduced by Senators Joseph Biden and

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. Women Thrive Worldwide has lobbied and helped pass such legislation as the Access for Afghan Women Act, the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act, the GAINS for Women and Girls Act, the Trade Impact Review and the GROWTH Act. Ritu Sharma Fox is co-founder and the president.

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calls her "a leading voice on international women's issues and U.S. foreign policy."{{cite web, url=http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/acvfa/acvfabios.html, title=USAID: Member Biographies, publisher= According to

, "due in large part" to Women Thrive Worldwide, "the interests of poor women worldwide are now being incorporated into U.S. economic assistance and trade policies and, in some cases, into U.S. law itself. Advocates in the

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for Women Thrive Worldwide

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, Richard Durbin,

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, and

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References

Women's political advocacy groups in the United States Organizations established in 1998