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Voicing Stateless Exclusion

Voicing Stateless Exclusion

This article is part of Ananke's Resilience Edition published on ISSUU - the special edition can be viewed here.   “Fight for your rights with all your heart. Because if you do not address the problem, it will keep chasing you” ~ Nur Azizah – Rohingya Refugee     Sex based discrimination being the stark...

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Faces Of Resilience

Faces Of Resilience

This investigative cover story is part Ananke's Special Resilience Edition and is available on ISSUU, check out the magazine here. The COVID19 pandemic has claimed more than 3.95 million victims worldwide. Nowhere in sight is any kind of respite. With rising death toll, many claim the disease to be a great equalizer. Far from it,...

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Envisioning An Integrated Approach To Health

Envisioning An Integrated Approach To Health

This interview is part of Ananke's special #Resilience Edition, click here to view.   Jane Ohuma, Country Manager Kenya and Cluster Lead for Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda, The Fred Hollows Foundation, chats with Sabin Muzaffar about the organization’s groundbreaking work in Africa, how blindness exacerbates gender inequities and approaching COVID19 with an integrated response.  ...

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Art exhibition to showcase rich cross-continental dialogues around black femininity

Art exhibition to showcase rich cross-continental dialogues around black femininity

July 15th, 2021 (London, England): HOFA Gallery and ADA contemporary art gallery (Accra, Ghana) are set to premiere an all-female group exhibition titled ‘Mother of Mankind’ which showcases the rich cross-continental dialogues around the subject of black femininity; how it is created, perceived, and deconstructed through art. On view from July 22 – August 31 at HOFA’s...

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P@SHA report advocates infrastructural, diversity frameworks for Pakistani IT Companies

P@SHA report advocates infrastructural, diversity frameworks for Pakistani IT Companies

Karachi (Pakistan): P@SHA released D&I, ‘Diversity and Inclusion Framework: for Pakistani IT Companies’. P@SHA/PASHA is a functional trade body and registered association for the IT industry in Pakistan, primarily to promote and develop the software and services industry in Pakistan and to protect the rights of its members. According to Shamim Rajani, Chair Person P@SHA...

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Accelerating Female-led Business to the Next Level with CWPEC 2021

Accelerating Female-led Business to the Next Level with CWPEC 2021

July 13th, 2021, Lahore (Pakistan): Acclaimed community Connected Women Pakistan (CWP) announced the launch of its signature venture ‘Connected Women Pakistan Entrepreneurship Challenge (CWPEC) 2021’ on July 5th, 2021. The application form is now live and being shared in different communities and platforms with the applications being closed on 25th July. The ‘CWPEC 2021’ is...

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HER ALLIES A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy

HER ALLIES A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy

Archna Sharma, publisher at Neem Tree Press is excited to be publishing this highly topical book on male allyship by Hira Ali https://advancingyourpotential.com/. As the https://www.everyonesinvited.uk/ project, regular reported assaults on women and very visible and thick glass ceilings demonstrate, simply wishing for gender equality is not enough. HER ALLIES provides a much-needed practical guide...

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Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution Network Launched

Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution Network Launched

June 30th, 2021 (Lahore, Pakistan): The ADR Initiative and Women in Law Initiative Pakistan jointly held a ‘meet and greet’ session for female lawyers/students interested in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) on Saturday, 26th June 2021. In-house experts and team of ADR gave a brief overview of what ADR practice entails and drew comparisons with litigation...

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World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content

World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content

Leaders in Australia, the UK, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Singapore and other public and private sector members have come together to collaborate and share best practices to reduce the spread of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, violent extremist and terrorist content, and health misinformation New report by the Forum highlights the need to implement a...

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WHO issues first global report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use

WHO issues first global report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to new WHO guidance published today. The report, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, is the result of two years of...