More: women’s empowerment
The Cost of My Comfort
What should I wear today?
Do I want to choose between my comfort or someone else’s comfort? If I buy this shirt, it will be...
Seeds of Change: How LadyAgri Empowers Women to Lead Africa’s Agri-Food Revolution
Introduction: Sharing What Works
One might say that in Brussels, much like in the finest salons of society, conversations are abundant-diagnoses even more so. Food...
Redefining Empowerment: A Critical Look at Microcredit and Women’s Economic Agency
Introduction
In 1974, Muhammad Yunus began experimenting with an initiative to give small loans to impoverished rural women to foster a sense of empowerment through...
Supporting girls to stay in school is key to ending early marriage
In Dodoma, the capital city of my country, Tanzania, stepping into a public secondary school at the start of the term brings a moment...
Nigerian Women Leaders Unveil Plan to Strengthen Health and Climate Resilience
Pathfinder International, a global health and development organization with more than 65 years of experience across Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, has...
Breaking Patriarchy’s Shadow: South Africa’s Femicide Crisis and Global Resistance
Living as a woman is often like walking in a shadow that may not go away. The stigma lurking behind your back, the fear...
Purple Profile Picture Campaign Insufficient to Tackle Patriarchy and Femicide
There is truly no safe place for women when patriarchy is normalized as a culture and violence is silenced as a family matter in...
Abolishing Female Genital Mutilation: A Global Imperative
How deeply wounded are the morals of women out there, fighting for their lives time after time to maintain their dignity as women, and...
Seats Are Not Enough — Patriarchy Must Be Dismantled
For centuries, women and girls have been told to wait their turn, to negotiate harder, to adjust to the structures that exclude them. Yet...
Can Feminist Foreign Policy Keep Its Promises?
In an era of global polarization and escalating crises, the promise of a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) has emerged as a beacon of progressive...