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...
We all know that there are many people in the world who live in poverty. Poverty has become a part of people’s lives even in the most cosmopolitan of cities – but only because we hear about it so much and are urged ...
On Saturday, 26 October 2013, Saudi Arabia’s women got behind the wheel in a national day of defiance against the Kingdom’s ban on female drivers. With over 60 women joining the call to allow women drivers, the prot...
Thank you Hannah Price for doing what I always wanted to do: Capturing the act of men catcalling women on the streets. In her photography exhibition “City of Brotherly Love”, the African-Mexican-American photographe...
For sixty eight years, the United Nations had pledged to abide by these principles, rooted in which they’ve strengthened their foundational base. While it sustained humanity from meeting its ultimate collapse in the event of ...
In todays society it is easy to choose pessimism over optimism. We are quick to judge and have become somewhat cynical, is it any wonder? News stories such as ‘for richer, but not poorer: recession blamed for rise in divo...