'Greetings' - a word that is so sweet and can make you close to people whom you never knew! How you feel when you enter office everyday and gets 'hi', 'hello', 'morning', 'good morning' from your...
“What do you want to be?” could be the second common question you have answered at several points in life. I remember scratching my scalp last time my grandfather held me in his arms and asked me the...
What lessons are there after decades of working with women smallholders?This was the question that brought together 9 development agencies with an academic and members of DFID food team in October...
"Two mud houses are under flood water. I am living in a neighbour’s house and my parents are living in the makeshift house beside the roads"25 year-old Hashi Akhter tells us. She is a young...
We live in an unequal world, and women pay a higher price for it. This is one of my few convictions. Among the many women who suffer such inequality, many of them are in the North and Northeast...
March 8th, International Women’s Day, finds me reflecting on some of the incredible women in my life. Here is a snapshot of the women I love and admire. My best mate Bonnie Wykman: A highly skilled...
The 2012 theme for the Commission on the Status of Women is rural women and yet one of the most absent voices this year has been the rural women themselves. Civil society has made evident efforts to...
In Bangladesh the “Vision of Girls”-project is one of the ways Action Aid fights to create better futures for young girls. As a member of Activista I have had the honor to meet Salma who used to live...
