Global Social Change
Davos: The Other Side of the Mirror
It has been a couple of months since I was
hanging out in Davos learning about this year’s World Economic Forum. Perhaps I have a...
A Calamitous Week
Something is infinitely wrong in the
picture, a juxtaposition of polar opposites:
New Zealand, a country of unfailingly courteous and kind people, and an
extremist terrorist killing...
How men can play an active role in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment
International Gender Champions and Heads of the
Vienna-based United Nations organizations have discussed how men can play an
active role in promoting gender equality.
The event, held...
Education remains an impossible dream for many refugees and migrants
The older refugee and migrant children get, the less
likely it is that they will get a quality education: less than a quarter of the
world’s...
International Women’s Day 2019: More equality, but change is too slow
On the occasion of this year's
International Women's Day, the Commission has published its 2019 report on
equality between women and men in the EU. The...
The Danger of Extremism
Let’s face it - we as the human race have to share this world, and
adjust ourselves accordingly.
Each and every societal group, just like...
Bulgaria Emerges as Champion in Women Legal Rights Affecting Work
Bulgaria, an EU member-state with a population of 7.1
million, is among the highest performing economies in women's legal rights
affecting work, according to a new...
Searching for the perfect grad school
I was fresh
off the boat a graduate from Thammasat University in Thailand. I was young,
energetic and enthusiastic and at that point, I wanted nothing...
As inequality grows, the UN fights for a fairer world
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the UN’s blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all – calls for a reduction...
Sexual Diversity in Hindi Cinema: A Beginning
Bollywood, or as the more politically correct call it the “Hindi Film Industry”, released last week what is advocated as the first commercial film...