Global Social Change
Call for Action from Leaders and Business on Violence against Women
Spiralling levels of violence against women in Africa require immediate
action from governments and businesses, including tangible measures to create
safe spaces, experts from across the...
Young women learn government fundamentals in nationwide leadership program
This July, two teenage girls from every state in the country met in
Washington, D.C., for the 73rd annual American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation.
This one-week...
Women gaining ground in political decision-making but gender equality still a long way off
Tackling inequality between women and men
in the sharing of power and decision-making at all levels is essential to
strengthen democracy and achieve peace and sustainable...
Fracking Societies through manufactured revolts
If society is considered as an open,
complex and dynamic system. This system
is attributed for the quality of both organizing and disorganizing. Constructive chaos occurs...
In Kashmir: Love and respect thy patient
Today, the
world over, a number of issues confronting the societies are discussed day in
and day out and intellectual analysis and outpourings start to emanate...
Why People Run: Motivation Theory Applied to Diverse Migration
According to a United Nations report, 3.2%
of world population or 258 million people, live in a country other than their
country of birth. Between 1990...
Captain Jasmin: Charting a sea change in a man’s world
I never knew anything about life at sea before I started my training.
Certainly, where I come from – the Philippines – and also in...
Herat, the fire’s bride
The olive eyes of Shaista peep between the
bandages covering her burnt body, for she, like so many other Afghan women from
the city of Herat,...
The Modern Tragedy of Child Marriage
Authors: Pooja Shah & Russell Whitehouse
“And just
like that, my mother was married to the village chaiwala when she was 14!” I distinctly recall my...
Marcia Andrade Braga: A ‘stellar example’ of why more women are needed in UN peacekeeping
Training gender advisors and focal points in the Central African
Republic (CAR) has earned a Brazilian United Nations peacekeeper a special
gender advocate award, it was...