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The Tipping Point for Gender Equality
Strengthening the lives and communities of women and girls worldwide should be the priority of all governments, community organizations, international development institutions and global citizens. As we like to say at The Women...
WATCH: Climate Change Has Hit Home. Literally.
Over 30 million displaced by weather-related events in 2012 Climate refugees aren’t a phenomenon of the future. It’s a catastrophe happening right now. Floods, storms and earthquakes forced 32.4 million people globa...
WATCH: Syrian Pianist Malek Jandali – “We Need Freedom for True Art”
When Syrians took to the streets in March 2011, they rebelled not only against the ruling Assad family, but also against the obscurantism that had been imposed on them for decades. Art as a whole, and music in particular, have ...
Why The Russian, Nigerian And British Governments Are Acting Like Big Bullies
One story that has emerged in the “weird news” sections of many online news outlets over the past few days is the news that a Nigerian woman disowned her cat for displaying ‘homosexual tendencies’. The woman from Lafi...
Opening the Future of Friendship: Northeast Asia must learn from lessons of WW2
At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
COP18: Stop blaming civil society
With just hours to go until the resolution of the UN climate change negotiations, everyone is playing the blame game. While is is looking unlikely that some of the key issues around the transition towards the highly anticipated...
