“The Internet is considered a safe place for women to communicate but at the same time, the same anonymity, the same safety is also offered to those who use it to commit crimes and abuse [against] women.” Alice Wanjira-Mu...
Salma Banu is 23 years old, a worker of shrimp cultivation in Tafalbari village , Southkhali Union in Bagherhat Bangladesh, she expressed “ while my husband‘s monthly income from his cultivated land was not enough to contin...
Will Hilary Clinton make that final crack? The moment finally arrived – former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton officially announced her candidacy to run as President of the United States in 2016. After much speculati...
Every woman I know attests to the fact that they absolutely hate the time of the month when they receive their period. It does not matter whether you have access to sanitary pads and tampons, a hot water bottle and pain killers...
On September the 15th, 24 Year Old Nina Davaluri became the first winner from an Indian background to win the Miss America pageant. Amidst the cheers of adulation and the small but obnoxious stream of racist remarks directe...
Egypt, the third most populated country in Africa has been a pace-setter to the African continent, be it technology, agriculture, the famous Arab uprising among other accolades. Sadly, human rights violations as well as sexual ...
The various awards won by Twelve Years a Slave are hugely significant, but Kenyan Lupita’s Nyong’o’s win for best supporting female could be particularly paradigm-shifting. In 2002, Halle Berry became the fi...
Samantha Lewthwaite has been a prominent feature of mainstream news since the attacks on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi this September. However, when her name is entered into a Google search, the foremost entry is a li...
Lucy is a 22-year old girl with a two-year old son. She worked as a webcam-girl in her home country Romania, despite having obtained a diploma in architecture. Two years ago she moved to The Netherlands, where she became one of...