Dubai (UAE), March 8th, 2017 INSEAD, one of the worlds leading business schools, has launched the Gender Progress Index that takes a holistic view towards gender issues. The findings of the Index were discussed at a half day seminar marking International Womens Day titled Inspire, Impact, Empower, at the INSEAD Middle East Campus in...
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Championing the Cause of Pakistani Women
Championing gender equality in Pakistan, Noor Ahmed is a relentless womens rights activist. It was through providence and Noors persistence that we connected on Facebook while watching a Facebook Live event on Women for Women Internationals discussion on Syrian women refugees. As the speakers shared heartbreaking stories of courageous women trying to protect themselves and...
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Cultures of Care: On Media and Gender
This is the last article of Ananke’s special series on Care Economy. Click to read the first and second articles. While the realm of fiction has been a playing field for feminist writers such as the Sub-continents Quratulain Haider, Ismat Chugtai, Kamla Das and renowned Arab author Nawal el Saadawi, media has ironically played a...
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BEDARI: Reawakening Hope
Tell us about Bedari when and why it came into existence? Bedari is a national level non-governmental, voluntary development organization in Pakistan working with women and children for the promotion and protection of their human rights. It was registered in 1992 under Societies Act 1860 to provide support to victims of gender-based violence, as...
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Shine Bright, End Violence
Teens Weave Stars Campaign is an initiative aimed at giving young people a platform advocating the elimination of violence against women and girls in Kenya. The initiative will be officially launched by Teen Action in Kenya, which strives to help raise teenagers as game-changers for their community and the world at large. The campaign involves...
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Tech giants in ME join forces to attract, retain women in tech
Dubai, United Arab Emirates: LinkedIn, Dell, Facebook and Ericsson held the first ever MENA Connecting Women in Technology (CWIT) event in Dubai earlier this week. CWIT, a collaborative initiative which started with 15 technology companies in Ireland, was created to attract and retain women in the technology industry. The MENA chapter aims to drive initiatives...
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Decimating Innocence: Child Marriage in Pakistan
Recently, clerics from Pakistan Islamic Ideology Council termed a bill that increased the girls age of marriage from 16 to 18, as blasphemous & un-Islamic. According to Girls Not Brides representatives in Pakistan; a global partnership of 500+ civil society organizations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfill their potential; this bill shouldnt distract...
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Painting the World Orange!
The last one century or so has witnessed women make great strides when it comes to freedom of speech, expression and movement. Starting with women having no say in socio-economic or political spheres of society; even when ironically, history is replete with examples how many an absolute monarch (female) helmed states globally, navigating through troubled...
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Spotting the Glass Cliff
We have all heard of the proverbial glass ceiling which is a term coined by Katherine Lawrence and Maryann Schreiber of Hewlett-Packard in 1979 at the National Press Club during a discussion at the Conference of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. The glass ceiling refers to a perceived barrier in the corporate...
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Emancipating the Arab Woman Economically
The importance of women participation in economic activities globally, regionally and nationally cannot be emphasized enough. Not only do women represent half of the population of the world, but their inclusion also signifies a balanced economic approach leading towards sustainability and growth. There is much to be desired when it comes to women in the...