Many challenges exist in Pakistan when it comes to socio-economic development. In February 2018, a UN report cited the country having a worrying degree of gender inequality in its Gender Equality Report for its Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, especially in the employment dimension among others. While gender and inclusion, especially in the technological sphere, are...
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Cisco: From Empowerment to Impact
Technology has played a pivotal role empowering women not just digitally but socio-politically and economically as well. Through a parallel reality that is the World Wide Web women have already begun leaning in. That said, there is still a long way to go, many biases to be dealt with one step at a time and...
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Editorial: And Miles To Go Before We Sleep
Check out our top 100 global trailblazers handpicked for their tremendous achievements, empowering and enabling societies. Women have come a very long way from the likes of Helen of Troy, being the object of desire (read: a flimsy excuse to invade foreign lands), Hypatia mercilessly dragged to the Egyptian streets under the Roman...
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Press For Progress: Top Hundred Trailblazers
International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on the progress we made, a time to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities. As a collective effort and global partnership, this International Women’s Day,...
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Rohingya: Crisis Beyond Borders
Since the eruption of violent conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar, many thousands of refugees have since crossed the border into Coxs Bazaar, Bangladesh. Discrimination and marginalisation is nothing new for the Rohingya and they have been fleeing persecution and crossing the border into Bangladesh for decades in search of safety, however the current crisis taking...
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Do Tech to Empower
Education is key to economic empowerment and for societies to flourish sustainably, it is equally important to encourage inclusion. Coupled with this, technology is a tool which can be leveraged for socio-economic benefits in short for the greater good globally. Together these elements create communities that not only thrive but are also fair, tolerant...
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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...
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2017- A dynamic year for womens rights
The year 2017 has been a dynamic year for the womens rights movement. Feminist activists from around the globe came together in solidarity to champion womens rights and raise awareness on issues affecting women and to resist hateful and abusive rhetoric. Womens Place is in the Revolution! Kick-starting on January 21st, 2017, the world stood...
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Seeing Red!
Being healthy and strong is synonymous with good hygiene, which is one of the reasons why the United Nations has adopted Good Health and Well-being as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 as well as Water and Sanitation as SDG 6. These are among the top 10 of the 17 goals to end poverty, protect the...