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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Climate change and its inequitable impacts on women
This article has previously been published in Ananke's Special Edition celebrating the Day of the Girl and can be viewed here. The special edition was part of Ananke's groundbreaking digital Girl Summit, which also included a session with Sara Hayat on the topic of climate change and its impact on women and girls. The video...
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On Media, Citizen Engagement & Alternate Digital Social Spaces
The digital realm has played a pivotal role in how we create, interact with and amplify the written word. From Gutenberg to computers and the Internet, each has been instrumental in not just building pathways to knowledge, enabling the reader to think and be informed, much to the dismay of the powers that be. It...
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Dr Bushra Anjum: An ordinary life rooted in effort, resolve, and positivity
My life has been led by the maxim, I will figure it out. The thought has excited me as I embarked on new ventures, calmed me as I faced unexpected challenges and soothed me in times of grief. Dr. Bushra Anjum Before sharing her story, Dr. Bushra Anjum emphasized that neither her life nor her...
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Womens History Month Special: Creating HERstories
Greeshma Sripada Intelligent Process Automation Developer at Proven Consult Greeshma Sripada is an Intelligent Process Automation Developer at Proven Consult based in our Bangalore, India Office. With almost six years experience in the field of business process automations and robotics process automation implementation RPA Greeshma sets the expectations high in a very competitive industry....
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Top 5 Women Conquering the Blockchain World
Blockchain technology isnt new in the tech space, but its revolutionary applications and problem-solving implementations are disruptively amazing. And today its not just men working on making an impact through blockchain, several women have stepped up to spearhead this new immutable ledger technology. Lets highlight the top five women leading the blockchain revolution and their...
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Editorial: On Voice And Agency
It was in 1911 when women took to the streets to demand the right to vote, hold public office and equal pay in different parts of Europe. These were some of the numerous and many a times unrecognized building blocks that culminated in the ideals of womens empowerment that we know today. Marking...
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Constitutionalizing Womens Human Rights in Australia
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter defeat so that we can know who the hell we are, what we can overcome, what makes us stumble and fall, and somehow miraculously rise and go on. Maya Angelou Women belong in all places where...
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Rights in Retrospect
It has been a long journey for womens human rights activists and feminists in the struggle for emancipation from patriarchy, sexism, inequality, discrimination, and violence. In that struggle, women and girls have been denied an education, forced into early marriage, lacked autonomy over reproductive rights, battled poverty and homelessness, continue to earn less than their...
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Gender Parity Must Start At School
As countries around the world begin to ease self-imposed restrictions to contain the spread of COVID-19, they face a new challenge: reviving their economies and societies, while attempting to restore people’s living standards and the privileges they enjoyed before the pandemic. Of course, in many parts of the world, girls and women were already fighting...