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 […]
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 […]
Increasing Women and Community Knowledge About Gender Issues and their Capabilities to End VAW in Sudan
Huwayda Mohamed Ibrahim Projects designer and developer at Consultancy office at Sudan huwayda1@hotmail.com . Women are still suffering from marginalization, different types of violence, exclusion and social injustice especially, in the rural areas and from the sense of superiority they are being treated with, in the conservative societies. The vast majority remain suffering under […]
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network
EL SALVADOR DEAR SISTERS AND BROTHERS – THIS IS A SPECIAL REQUEST– IN THIS MONTH OF FEBRUARY– LE T US DO AN ACT OF LOVE FOR MOTHER EARTH AND HUMANITY– LET US PROMOTE INTENTIONALLY AND INTENSIVELY THE SIGNING OF THE Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network A DECLARATION Among the most severely vulnerable to […]
HELIOS LIFE ASSOCIATION
www.helioslife.org ORGANIZATION PROFILE Helios Life is a non-profit, non-governmental association, established and accredited in Switzerland. Our goals are revolving around supporting and fostering education, development, awareness, unity in diversity. Since 2011 Helios Life Association is in consultative status with United Nations ECOSOC. Our activities: • Holding free life empowerment seminars, lectures and workshops • Issuing public […]
Cause & Affect
www.causeandaffectfoundation.org Cause & Affect infuses funds DIRECTLY to those in need; by traveling to distressed regions and forming local partnerships, we search for the most effective means of distributing funds in order to assist individual families, schools, clinics and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that address the educational, health and environmental needs of underprivileged people on […]
Remembering Martin Luther King and Commiting to Follow the Dream
15th January marks the birth date of Dr. Martin Luther King, beloved by many around the world, and especially in the USA by all peoples, and especially by Americans- USA people of African descent. 16th January marks the anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords, that put an end to the armed struggle in […]
