Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Vera Campanelli – Huffington Post – Friday, 11 May 2012 (originally published 05 May) Dear readers, thank you for reading my article. I’m the Italian delegate for the “Girls20 Summit” in Mexico City, which will focus on the rule of women in policy and world economy, making proposals and ideas for the leaders of the [...]
Jennifer Hattam – IPS – Thursday, 26 April 2012 (originally published 23 Apr) ISTANBUL, Apr 23, 2012 (IPS) – The world’s recent financial and political upheavals have not been kind to women. In Libya’s Tripoli, female suicide rates increased tenfold during the revolution, while dismal job prospects have young Greek women abandoning their career aspirations, [...]
Foreign Policy Staff – NPR – Tuesday, 24 April 2012 (originally published 23 Apr) 1 HELEN CLARK Administrator, U.N. Development Program New Zealand As New Zealand’s prime minister, Helen Clark oversaw a decade of economic growth and won three straight terms in her post after a long career as a Labour Party legislator and cabinet [...]
Elaine Chao – Time Ideas – Friday, 23 March 2012 (originally published 19 Mar) Fifty years ago, 65 percent of the people volunteering to join the Peace Corps were men and 35 percent were women. Today, those numbers have flipped, with 66 percent of volunteers during the 2000s women and 34 percent men. This change, [...]
Independent – NZ Herald – Thursday, 08 March 2012 (originally published 05 Mar) When more than half of the world’s population wakes up on Thursday – the 101st International Women’s Day – it will be hard to know whether to celebrate or give in to despair. “From London to Lahore,” says Oxfam, “inequality between men [...]
