Dubai, United Arab Emirates- 22 November 2015: Empower Women, a UN WOMEN organization, recently announced 75 new global champions for Womens Economic Empowerment after a month long rally where over 600 applicants from all over the world took part in online and social media activities. Dubai-based Executive Editor of Ananke, an online publication celebrating visionary...
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Spotting the Glass Cliff
We have all heard of the proverbial glass ceiling which is a term coined by Katherine Lawrence and Maryann Schreiber of Hewlett-Packard in 1979 at the National Press Club during a discussion at the Conference of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. The glass ceiling refers to a perceived barrier in the corporate...
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Emancipating the Arab Woman Economically
The importance of women participation in economic activities globally, regionally and nationally cannot be emphasized enough. Not only do women represent half of the population of the world, but their inclusion also signifies a balanced economic approach leading towards sustainability and growth. There is much to be desired when it comes to women in the...
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Fuelling Innovation
Founder-CEO Kalsoom Lakhani of Invest2Innovate, an organization that supports early state enterprises and developing a productive entrepreneurship ecosystem especially in Pakistan, chats with ANANKE about creating an enabling environment, fostering growth to craft social impact in the country. Tell us about Invest2Innovate? What do you consider your most significant achievement? Invest2Innovate, or i2i, supports young...
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Launching lives with KiteChild
All around us are people who need help, but not everyone believes they can be of help, or are capable of making a difference even in just one strangers life. And while the boxes we slowly build around us as we go through life perfectly serve their purpose of boxing us in, the people behind...
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Esha Nag: Making Her Mark!
Describe your childhood. I was born and brought up in the beautiful east Indian city of Kolkata (also known as Calcutta), once the capital of the British East India Company, and famous for its long line of artists, reformers, writers and filmmakers of international repute such as Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Satyajit Ray, Amitav Ghosh....
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Islamabads first ever #GirlsAtDhabas Meetup
In the midst of Pakistans political affairs hub, a group of 11 working women ambitiously gathered at a local dhaba (a small tea shop traditionally considered a mens-only place) to support and participate in a brilliant movement #GirlsAtDhabas to reclaim public spaces for women as they hope to change the mindset and reclaim Pakistans public spaces. The...
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Celebrating the #DayOfTheGirl
International Day of the Girl Child (Day of the Girl) is celebrated annually on October 11 to highlight issues concerning gender inequality facing young girls. This years theme is The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030. There are nearly 600 million girls aged 10 to 19 in the world today, each with limitless...
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Women in Aerospace: A Chat with a Space Lawyer
Tell us about yourself? I am a Romanian based in Dubai since 2011. Apart from working as a lawyer corporate / commercial / dispute resolution / international transactions), I am a professor at the University of Wollongong, Dubai, teaching International Law, Diplomacy, Business Law and few other related subjects. You hold a unique specialty in...
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Discovering a world out there!
Oct. 7th, 2015, Dubai, UAE: Twentieth Century Foxs latest blockbuster, The Martian, starring Matt Damon premiere Wednesday, Oct. 7th in Dubai and like elsewhere the film has been debuted worldwide in conjunction with U.N. declared World Space Week (WSW), the worlds largest annual celebration of space, science, and technology and their contribution to the betterment of humanity....