
Amal Clooney: I'm from a family of refugees
Five years after the start of civil war in Syria, the facts and figures continue to shock: 13.5 million people in the war-torn country need humanitarian assistance, 4.6 million Syrians ar...
Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Five years after the start of civil war in Syria, the facts and figures continue to shock: 13.5 million people in the war-torn country need humanitarian assistance, 4.6 million Syrians ar...
Not all weddings have a happily ever after. For 15 million girls a year – some as young as eight or nine – their wedding day won’t be a joyous event. It will signify the end of their chil...
Women in Saudi Arabia still can’t drive a car. But last month, three female pilots from Royal Brunei Airlines landed a plane in the Saudi city of Jeddah. The historic flight was the airli...
Update: The number of refugees who have fled South Sudan for Uganda has now reached 1 million, according to the UN.
Emma Watson has never hidden her passion for women’s rights: not only is she a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, she’s also set up a feminist book club and recently announced she was taking a...
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Some inventions are an immediate hit. When Apple released the iPhone in 2007, customers lined up outside stores, desperate to get their hands on what the media called the Jesus phone, a r...
Cultural destruction has always been a part of warfare. Nazi Germany’s attempt to remodel Europe according to its own worldview was not limited to invasion and mass atrocities: hundreds a...
It’s something that affects us all, either directly or through someone we know: cancer. Just a generation ago, receiving a cancer diagnosis was in most cases a death sentence. In the 1970...
Is intimate partner violence ever acceptable? Almost 40 years after the United Nations committed to ending violence against women in all its forms, the answer to that question should be a...
What’s the one thing that keeps you up at night? Terrorist attacks? Makes sense. Research shows although deaths fell overall from 2014-2015, many countries experienced record levels of te...
All eyes are on Twitter, after the social media giant unveiled its fourth-quarter earnings yesterday. Shortly after announcing revenue of $710 million and a net loss of $90 million, share...
“Leaders in Burundi have spewed hateful rhetoric, and terrible acts of violence have taken the lives of innocent men, women and children,” President Barack Obama warned the world in a vid...
The United States isn’t exactly known for its family-friendly work policies. It’s the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave. It has no laws requiring paid vacat...
In the United States, women are paid 77 cents on the dollar for the same work as men. At least, that’s the statistic we hear thrown around whenever the conversation turns to the gender pa...