The journey of Fellows in Myanmar started from 2006 by ActionAid to harness the potential of youth to become change maker and future leaders, and we are very proud to see that the initiative has now...
On the weekend of 25th to 27th November I joined a group of 30 women in Passarinho community in the outskirt of Recife city, Northeast of Brazil, for the 16 days of action to end violence against...
Let’s talk about tax, baby…Tax, it’s a dull subject, right? Technical, full of figures, decided upon by grey men in grey suits in grey offices, far from the reality of people’s daily lives. If this...
From an early age, I experienced some of the problems of women’s mobility in the city myself. Whether a woman or girl is working outdoors or a homemaker, educated or empowered, the situation is...
Many questions are being asked in the last two weeks over women, society and power. Do women have the power to lead? Can they make it all the way to the Presidency of the US? Was it about...
The Sustainable Development Goal on education establishes ambitious targets and to finance the achievement of these, we need a radical shift, a rebuilding of confidence in the capacity of the...
This month I attended the third UN conference on Habitat. Representatives from governments, intergovernmental agencies, civil society and social movements met in Quito, Ecuador, to discuss a new...
The women of Africa have categorically stated that talk is cheap. The time for real action is now. They have scaled the highest mountain on the continent just to tell their leaders that their...
This weekend marked the closing of the latest BRICS summit in Goa, India. While Indian media largely ignored most of the globally relevant discussions, instead focussing on bi-lateral disputes...
Hurricane Matthew has destroyed homes and schools in Haiti. Conditions in evacuation shelters are very poor in some of the worst affected areas. There is no water, electricity and very little food....
We need a new approach to corporate governance. Companies cannot just be a vehicle to create shareholders’ value – i.e. to pay high returns to those holding the capital. They must be...
Imagine being a typist without a typewriter, a photographer without a camera, a driver without a car. Women are toiling the land, gathering firewood, water, producing and cooking the food; and...
It was a privilege to be at the 13th AWID conference in Salvador (Brazil). It was fun and basically an experience sharing across various countries. At the conference, I had the chance to attend the...
Within a decade, Brazil has amazed and inspired the world, demonstrating that it is possible to tackle hunger and inequality with innovative, cross-sectoral and participatory policies. Extreme...
The President of the European Commission made a much-awaited speech in the European Parliament today, the so-called State of the European Union address. This annual event is supposed to show...
