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| align="center" | '''Former Employment:'''
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| align="center" | [[UNICEF]]
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| align="center" | '''Current Employment:'''
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| align="center" | [[AIDS Free World]]
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| align="center" | '''Benefactor:'''
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| align="center" | [[Stephen Lewis]]
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| align="center" | '''Self Described:'''
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| align="center" | Womens Activist / Feminist
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| align="center" | '''Promotes:'''
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| align="center" | Routine Infant Circumcision
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Paula Donovan is an American women's rights activist that strongly promotes infant male circumcision.<ref><!--[http://youtu.be/n9kIqB_6KRg Lewis, S. (2010, January 06). ''Male circumcision, part 1.'' Retrieved]--></ref>

Donovan previously served as a Senior Advisor in the office of the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and is a 20-year veteran of international development, women's rights and HIV/AIDS.<ref name="The Salem Award: Paula Donovan">[http://www.salemaward.org/2005_rec.asp The Salem Award: Paula Donovan]</ref> In the early '90s, she worked at [[UNICEF]] and ran the global advocacy campaign for breastfeeding. Later, she became chief aide to UNICEF's deputy executive director, and spent four years in Kenya as East and Southern Africa's Regional AIDS advisor for UNICEF.<ref name="Paula Donovan">[http://www.fairfield.edu/ar_fadpauladonovan.html Fairfield University: Paula Donovan]</ref>

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|title = <small>Stephen Lewis: on Paula Donovan</small>
|quote = She [Paula Donovan] realized that male circumcision was a good preventative way to slow the spread of AIDS. So she took that analysis further. She suggested to the male leadership in Nairobi, that UNICEF propose that <span style="background:#d7f5ff">circumcision accompany the regular process of immunization of infants</span>... Paula was easily 10 years ahead of her time, because <span style="background:#d7f5ff">that's exactly what's being discussed in several countries now</span>... and what did the UNICEF hierarchy do at the time? They grabbed their genitals in protective embrace and laughed it off like only male sexists can laugh things off. ...the UN took more than a decade to see male circumcision for the inspired preventative technology that it is.
|source = --[http://youtu.be/n9kIqB_6KRg Lewis, S. (2010, January 06). ''Male circumcision, part 1.'' Retrieved]
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== UN General Assembly ==
Her efforts resulted in the UN General Assembly passing a resolution which supported a new consolidated body – to be headed by an under-secretary-general – to deal with issues concerning women.<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/24/UN.women/index.html Behind the U.N. hoopla, a new agency for women emerges]</ref> The resolution merged the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Division for the Advancement of Women, the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW).<ref>[http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=932 UN to Establish Single New Agency to Deal with Rights of Women]</ref>

== AIDS Free World ==
AIDS-Free World is an international advocacy organization with a small staff that works virtually from a dozen locations in the US and Canada, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe.<ref name="about afw">
{{cite web
| url = http://www.aidsfreeworld.org/About-Us/Who-We-Are.aspx
| title = Who We Are - AIDS Free World
| accessdate = 2011-10-28
| work = AIDS Free World
| publisher = Peer1 Hosting
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</ref> Co-Directors Paula Donovan and [[Stephen Lewis]] founded AIDS-Free World in 2007.<ref name="about afw"/><ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kIqB_6KRg
| title = Male Circumcision, part 1
| accessdate = 2011-10-28
| last = Lewis
| first = Stephen
| date = 2010-01-06
| work = AIDSFreeWorld
| publisher = YouTube
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</ref>

==See Also==
*[[UNICEF]] -- Donovan worked at UNICEF.
*[[Stephen H. Lewis]] -- Benefactor of Donovan. Headed UNAIDS, promotes infant circumcision.

==External Links==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLxCyU0nimo The Circumfetish Magazine Awards - World AIDS Day Special] -- Paula Donovan hosts the awards (satire)

==References==
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[[Category:People|Donovan, Paula]]
[[Category:Circumcision in Africa|Donovan, Paula]]
[[Category:Promoters|Donovan, Paula]]
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