As India’s population rapidly increases, the nation’s tendency to prefer that women give birth to a son is likely to have detrimental effects on women and development. ‘Look, I’m going to tell you someth...
Here is a short film that I made about the work of Hot Sun Foundation, an organization based in Kibera Nairobi, the largest slum in Africa. Hot Sun Foundation draws on the imagination, creativity and passion of young people fro...
‘Syrian citizens were bent over, crumbled to the floor in rubble and crying for the loss they felt from seeing their buildings and monuments destroyed. These brave people had risked their own lives to try to save these ...
I recently attended a talk at the London School of Economics, where Professor Naila Kabeer discussed the place of women and gender issues within the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) as the 2015 deadline is approaching with va...
Kibera, is possibly the largest and most renowned slum in Africa; home to approximately a million people, a site for hundreds of charities and a place considered the typical slum situation. Although, what can be considered typi...