My Mom Is Part of a Long Line of Many Women With Big Hearts, Smiles and Endowed with Great Courage!
Sonia Colasse Author the children bilingual book: “The Adventures of Enzo” e-mail: soloinfinity.ws@gmail.com website: www.soloinfinty.com/enzo Français version When I look at her, she expresses a life filled with adventure, full of emotion, sometimes grief and misfortune, but I keep in my memory her bursts of laughter and her happiness. However, I also know that before arriving […]
Inspiring Change With the Women’s Directorship Programme
Prof. Amy Lau Director of Executive Education and Chair Professor of Accounting, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong: www.fbe.hku.hk . Nick Marsh Managing Director of Harvey Nash Executive Search APAC, an executive search and leadership consulting firm: www.harveynash.com/executivesearch/ . Abstract: Women’s progression in the workplace is stalling. There are multiple […]
Rape in Somalia: Women and ‘Double Victimisation’
Patrick Mugo Mugo Institutional Filiation: Aljazeera Television Producer (F/L), Eastern and Horn of Africa, Nairobi Bureau and also Conflict and Policy Researcher at Horn and Eastern Africa UN’s-mandated University Graduate with Masters of Arts in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies (2012) Contacts; patrickmaragi@gmail.com,@PMugoMugo , www.mugomugo.com . Abstract: Rape is crime that ought to be punished and […]
The Story of the Green Lane Environmental Diary: Uniting Children and Cultures through Environmental Education
Katy Orell Green Cross International e-mail: communication@gci.ch web: www.gcint.org . Abstract: The Green Lane Environmental Diary program, founded in 1999 by Green Cross, is a school-based educational initiative promoting sustainable development and inspiring students to become agents of transformative change in their own communities. The initiative underscores a central aim of the Earth Charter Declaration to “provide […]
The Divine Nature of Women Naturally – A Challenge of 21st Century
Rashmi Chandran Founder & Chairperson, Natural Health and Environmental Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India E-mail: rashmichandran@gmail.com / https://www.facebook.com/NHEROrg . Abstract: Woman is the embodiment of God’s creative power, Shakti. Woman embodies the feminine aspect of God, through which he created the creation. God placed within women divine qualities of strength, virtue, love, and the willingness to sacrifice to raise […]
And the Walls Come Folding Down: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Building Awareness, Balance, and Connection in Ourselves, Our Schools, in Our Communities, and in Our World
Karen Melaas Curriculum/Teacher Leadership Development in Oxford, Michigan, USA kwmelaas@comcast.net / http://kwmelaas.wix.com/plant-karma . Abstract: The twenty-first century offers educators an extraordinary opportunity to employ constructivist teaching and learning. The current era allows us, perhaps more than ever before, to honor the core individuality of every learner. There is one idea within constructivism that some have come to […]
Education and Suicide
Anna Barchetti Durisch Mentor, public speaker and education specialist e-mail: anna@helioslife.org web: helioslife.org . Abstract: Whether we fail in school or life exams, suicide is not an answer. What is the meaning of education?How to heal the pain within us, which one day might result in divisions and conflicts at large? Keywords: Education, suicide, […]
Female Genital Mutilation – Truths and Lies
Athanasia Zagorianou Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Master in Human Rights Law. e-mail: nassia_izago@yahoo.gr . Abstract: This article examines and analyzes the controversial issue of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). With goal to find the truths and the lies around the issue, this article provides a description and an analysis of important factual information regarding the practices of FGM and its […]
Indigenous Women of Eco-villages in Orissa Asserts their Rights
Normally the voice of the Poor and Hard core poor in particular indigenous people is not being heard by government departments, because after 66 years of independence India, still these excluded groups are struggling for their livelihood. The grass root democracy and empowerment process of Gram Sabha and Palli sabha is not well recognized and […]
Celebrating Woman!
Rita Eluwade Author of the book “Trafficked Women- a Problem of Vulnerability without Rehabilitation” E-mail: rita.wealthygeneration@gmail.com . In celebrating Women’s day, there is a need to place more emphasis on the female gender. The female sex is one of the two sexes made from the time of creation. The exemption of the female gender in most […]
