What inspired you to become a lawyer, and when did you decide to pursue this career? The career seemed to have decided on me instead *laughs*, actually I was enrolled in an accelerated A level programme in which the A level examinations had to be taken all in one year. One of my subjects was...
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The Gender Security Project launches Feminist Foreign Policy Online Course
(Information source: The Gender Security Project) Since 2014, 12 countries have adopted Feminist Foreign Policies. However, a lot more needs to be done in prioritizing feminism in feminist foreign policies. While some countries focused on providing aid, some chose to add women and stir. Instead of choosing to engage with feminist values and focusing on...
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Envisaging humanitarianism in locations of strife
This interview is part of Ananke's Special Spotlight Edition focusing The Fred Hollows Foundation's 30 year of change making in the eye health and development sector with a special emphasis on inclusion and gender equality. Tell us about yourself and your work focusing development, health and eye care. I hold a master’s in business...
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Amendments Proposed for Reforms in the Justice Sector Pakistan with a Gender Lens
January 5th, 2023 (Lahore, Pakistan): Diversity & Inclusion Advocate and Founder of Women in Law Initiative Pakistan, Nida Usman Chaudhary unveiled the cover of the proposed amendments for reforms in the justice sector in Pakistan with a gender lens in a tweet yesterday. The amendments proposed are based on the seminal work on Fair Representation...
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Highlighting Female Participation on Emirati Womens Day
As a key pillar of the community, Emirati women are playing a vital role in the overall development of the UAE and have achieved many successes in various sectors, especially in the financial and banking sector, thanks to the support and guidance of our wise leadership which prioritised investing in human resources and paid special...
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Sparking innovation via balanced and empathetic leadership
Tell us about yourself and your professional journey My journey counts three major stops: Casablanca – the native home, New York city – the tough love teacher, and Dubai – the nurturing space. With these three great cities, I am the product of the experiences that shaped me throughout this diverse journey, that was also...
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Digital inclusion: What does equal access to education mean in the digital age?
The COVID-19 crisis, and the impact which it has had on learning across the world, has highlighted many of the digital disparities which exist in todays world. At a time when many of the worlds students shifted from physical to digital, we were also faced with the hard truth that today there are still 3.6 billion...
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P&G 2019 Citizenship Report Highlights Community Impact, Gender Equality
Cincinnati (USA): The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today released its 2019 Citizenship Report, detailing progress in its Citizenship focus areas of Community Impact, Diversity & Inclusion, Gender Equality and Environmental Sustainability built on the foundation of Ethics and Corporate Responsibility. From reaching its 2020 goal of providing 15 billion liters of clean water through its...
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Tapping into the Potential of Gender Data
Marking Human Rights Day, Emily Courey Pryor, Executive Director Data2x a dynamic platform hosted by the UN Foundation which promotes and enables production and use of gender data to improve lives of women and girls, talks to Sabin Muzaffar on alleviating gender-based poverty by filling gender data gaps.
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On Elderly Abuse
The United Nations defines violence against women and girls as Any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.” Violence against older...