Adan Suazo argues that successfully tackling climate change involves moving away from a definition of violence that puts humans at the centre. The Conference of the Parties in Paris comes at a pivotal point in our history.…
My Journey I am Afifa Kidwai,3rd year Graduation student,live in lucknow,Uttar Pradesh.I grow up in a small family i.e my father, mother and sister.For me a big challenge in my community is Women Education and Empowerment.…
My journey in women’s rights advocacy I grew up resenting that my brother is not required to do the dishes because, as my father puts it, it’s a woman’s job. I came from a province in the southern part of the Philippines.…
My community is not a gray palette of towering skyscapers, where noise has become the language of every waking day. My community is made up of stories, of women from the towns of Basey and Sta. Rosa - they are survivors and…
http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/02/05/19-days-jail-dolphin-activist-deported?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2016-02-05-C Rick O'Berry deported from Japan, so the killing goes on of defenseless dolphins in a secret code in Japan.…
Following the successful adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, all eyes are now on the next steps that will be taken by countries to implement it. The intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) that…
Hi, I am from India and I want our Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend and be a part of World Humanitarian Summit - 2016. Forthis,I have started an online petition and I want people to sign it. Once it will be signed by…
I fell pregnant at 16 (22 years ago) and gave birth to a beautiful boy called Damien. I was a ‘good girl, from a good Catholic family.’ This sort of thing didn’t happen to ‘good girls’! My father literally screamed out in…
This rape joke by a Presidential candidate is making me so emotional. So here it goes. This is a translated excerpt from a speech of a Mayor running for President about a rape victim: "I looked at the face, (swears) she's…
The Global Equality Fund , managed by the U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for programs to advance the human rights…
The U.S. Department of State Bureau of East Asia Pacific Affairs (EAP) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for a project to promote women's entrepreneurship, as part of the…
From a retired general who was part of the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to a lawyer who worked for one of the suspects in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, presumptive Philippine president Rodrigo…
SHE-CAN: Supporting Her Education Changes a Nation is now recruiting mentors for the next class of scholars. SHE-CAN matches a team of 4-6 female mentors with high potential, low-income young women from Rwanda and Cambodia…
Life is For Living bySusanaTuyaSarmiento What I learned while I was bedridden with an autoimmune disease that everyone women should have been told! Who am I? My background how I thought I was superwoman! I’m originally from…
In the early days after the country being freed from the then Pakistan almost 46 year ago women were ignored in this respect that they should given education. It happened as the women were considered worthless and illegible…
I often wonder, the love of a mother, yet tender yet protective, to her young. she a friend, a comforter, a strenght of support, of unending sacrifice. who watched my infact head, yet when i was tender, and above all…
http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Horse-Droshki-Ken-Villers-ebook/dp/B009EF1WJK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439785987&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Stone+Horse+%26+Droshki+by+Ken+De+Villers My father's book, "The Stone…
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/279471?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Sharebar&utm_campaign=Sumome_share Read this article about using failure and rejection to get what you want. To believe in it happening. My…
The memoirs of Colonel General Yuri D. Danilov, born in the Ukraine, Father an American full blood Oglala Sioux Indian. Mother a Ukrainian with a close relationship to the Nikita Khrushchev family. Yuri Spends his boyhood in…
SEXUAL VIOLENCE TO CHILDREN, WHAT WE CAN DO TO REDUCE IT?! =============================================== The past couple weeks people had been shocked by the mass media findings at couple cities in Indonesia that over 100…
All of my attention was drawn to a picture surfaced on Facebook. But in true judgement that was absolutely a normal picture and I believe was not taken in a good camera by any expert or professional photographer. One of…
A years-old homespun applique on cloth the saffron hue of subtle sunset hangs from clothespins above my kitchen table. I had worked on it during a workshop on trauma healing a decade ago. I cut and shaped, from various…
Michelle Baranda, 17, carries, like some luminous amulet in the deep pockets of her thoughts, the words of the renowned educator and rights activist Helen Keller: while it is true that the world is full of adversity; it is…
Hi beautiful ladies all over the world.... I am looking for a bit of help and support. To cut a long story short, I began my journey into self employment 12 months ago when i set up my own business supplying custom branded…
An opportunity that I took being separated myself from the team on tour to Madhobpur lake, Lawyachhara and BDR Camp for having seven layer tea. All these places are considered as tourist spots and located in Srimangal…