Child abuse is the main form of violence against children globally. According to Childhelp, more than 3.6 million referrals involving more than 6.6 million children are made to child protection agencies every year. At the heart of child protection are safe places, known as rescue centres, both State-owned and NGOs, where protection officers, social workers,...
Category: Culture
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Food For Thought
How does it all start? Stigma around mental illnesses persists in Belarus, a post-soviet country, where every person visiting therapy is considered crazy or schizophrenic. Arina (16 years old) told us about the first time she was called fat. I remember exactly the moment in kindergarten, when a girl just a year older approached me....
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Sustainable fashion campaign launched in the UAE
February 17th, 2019, Dubai (UAE): Homegrown Dubai-based designer and fashion label ASMARAÏA launches her latest fashion campaign named Nocturnal Animal featuring her latest collection focusing on sustainable metropolis chic-style, feline-inspired 2019 collection shot at Dubai’s wellness center, vegan cafe, concept shop and garden oasis Life’n One. The fast rising Dubai brand, works with more environmentally-friendly...
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Dress You UP
February 17th, 2019, Dubai (UAE):How does a modern women dress in order to convey authority and competence at work? You can spend a lot of time and money shopping and still not get it right, and who wants to do that? So how can you know what’s worth investing in and what’s not? And is...
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Tales from the dark side
Best-selling UAE author, Karen Osman, release second novel.
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Noor AbdulMajeed: On Empowerment, Creativity & Gender
Tell us a little about yourself and your creative journey? Nothing special to be said, a woman who faced and experienced a lot of being herself till she decided to write and she did … She wrote ten novels and raising three beautiful kids knowing for sure the more difficult the journey is, the more...
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The Future of Human Culture
February 14th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): The way in which we produce and consume culture is transforming in the 21st century and will continue to change thanks to the impact of technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), on creative industries. That was the message delivered in the panel discussion What is the Future of our Human Culture, headlined...
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Calling for Third Womens Revolution To Enable Augmented Humanity
Dubai-UAE: 12 February 2018 At the World Government Summit 2018, Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global asked women to redesign the world they want to inherit. We are working in a world where to be constantly switched on is rewarded, where burnout equals success, where we forget to recharge ourselves but not...
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Where School Girls Graduate with Infections
After a 3 to 4 hours journey on a rough Murram road, I needed to change my sanitary pad urgently before the menstrual blood could soil my jeans. I had traveled to this school for a girls debate event, which brought together girls from four different high schools. I was thrilled to be in the...
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On the Feminization of Ageing
As the number of older adults increases – a greater majority of which comprise women, their (older women’s) lives will be deeply impacted by changing demographics and dynamics. To-date, information pertaining to older women, their well-being and health as well as their basic human rights is scant to say the very least. The lives of...