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International Women Human Rights Defenders Day.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

5 hours ago
6 min

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day.

International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, 29 November 2022 States must live up to their commitments to protect women human rights defenders, who are increasingly under attack and inadequately protected. ❝ The current global context of unchecked #authoritarianism as well as the rise of #populism, of corporate power and of fundamentalist groups are contributing towards closing the space for civil society. This is being done through the enactment of laws and practices that

Mahsa Amini.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Oct 23
5 min

Mahsa Amini.

Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old girl. She was a young Kurdish woman whose name or personal story we would have never known unless one day last S

Invisible Women, Invisible Problems.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Sep 26
3 min

Invisible Women, Invisible Problems.

Did you know .... There are an estimated 258 million widows around the world, and nearly one in ten live in extreme poverty. In some parts of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, for instance, it is reported that around 50 per cent of women are widows. Widows are coerced into participating in harmful, degrading and even life-threatening traditional practices as part of burial and mourning rites. Poverty No access to credit or other economic resources, even for childcare

Entrepreneurship.Funkola Odeleye.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Aug 1
1 min

Entrepreneurship.Funkola Odeleye.

Many entrepreneurs are self-taught; we start businesses out of necessity or to solve an urgent problem. Funkola Odeleye.

Sibongile Sambo

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Jul 11
2 min

Sibongile Sambo

＊ Entrepreneur Sibongile Sambo The rejected flight attendant who started her own aviation company ＊ Sibongile Sambo wanted to be a flight attendant with South African Airways, but she did not meet the minimum height requirement to become one. So she decided to star her own business, and had to sell her car and use her mother's pension money to set it up. Today, she is the founder of SRS Aviation, Africa's first female aviation company. Sambo was named on the "20 Young Power W

Women in Politics. Francia Márquez

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Jul 1
3 min

Women in Politics. Francia Márquez

Francia Márquez — a former housekeeper and activist—is Colombia’s first Black vice president. For the first time in Colombia’s history, a Black woman is close to the top of the executive branch. Francia Márquez, an environmental activist from the mountainous department of Cauca in southwestern Colombia, has become a national phenomenon, mobilizing decades of voter frustration, and becoming the country’s first Black vice president on 29th of May, as the running mate to Gustav

Activist Genital Mutilation - Sister Fa.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Jun 21
3 min

Activist Genital Mutilation - Sister Fa.

Activist Genital Mutilation - Sister Fa. The practice is found in some countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and within communities

Artistic Minds. Oumou Sangaré.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

May 24
1 min

Artistic Minds. Oumou Sangaré.

Oumou Sangaré (Bambara: Umu Sangare; born 25 February 1968 in Bamako) is a Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referre

Ethiopia’s national dialogue commission: where are the women?⁠⁠

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Apr 12
1 min

Ethiopia’s national dialogue commission: where are the women?⁠⁠

⁠In December 2021, Ethiopian lawmakers voted to establish a National Dialogue Commission to oversee “broad-based inclusive public dialogue

Kenya’s Dr Jemimah Kariuki wins 2021 Global Health Award

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

May 27, 2021
2 min

Kenya’s Dr Jemimah Kariuki wins 2021 Global Health Award

Women who are changing our world. Kenya’s Dr Jemimah Kariuki wins 2021 Global Health Award

WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT⁠.2020 Women's Forum Global.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Mar 25, 2021
4 min

WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT⁠.2020 Women's Forum Global.

✺ WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT⁠ Worth to remember this speech which has been pronounced by Ursula von Der Leyen. Speech by President von Der Leyen at the 2020 Women's Forum Global Meeting Brussels, 18 November 2020 Dear Chiara (Corazza), Dear ladies, Dear friends, Thank you for your invite to this impressive gathering. All of you who are connected today have an amazing story to tell. A story of hard work, and of success. Some of you were the first woman in your family to get a degree.

Wise Words by Bonang Matheba.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Mar 11, 2021
1 min

Wise Words by Bonang Matheba.

Being a powerful woman means that you create your own narrative. It means that you are strong enough to make your own decisions, to be free and to break the status quo that people have set up for women. Who is this #remarkable woman ? Bonang Dorothy Matheba (born 25 June 1987), is a South African television presenter, radio personality, businesswoman, producer, model and philanthropist. Matheba launched the Bonang Matheba Bursary Fund in 2017 to help educate girls by paying f

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Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Mar 9, 2021
4 min

International Women's Month. ❛ Be a Lady They Said ❜⁠

International Women's Month. ❛ Be a Lady They Said ❜⁠ ⁠ ❛ Be a lady they said. Your skirt is too short. Your shirt is too low. Your pants are too tight. Don’t show so much skin. Don’t show your thighs. Don’t show your breasts ❜⁠ ⁠ These are the first few lines of a poem, written by 22-year-old Camille Rainville and performed by former Sex and the City star turned activist and politician, Cynthia Nixon.⁠ ⁠ The viral and incredibly powerful video, created for Girls Girls Girls

Use your voice to eliminate the variable.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Mar 7, 2021
5 min

Use your voice to eliminate the variable.

Use your voice to eliminate the variable. ( Spanish version bellow). In March we commemorate Women's Day. First it was the day for female workers and then we stopped making the distinction between working outside or inside the home environment and we included them all in the commemoration. March 8th was held for the first time in 1911, a year after Copenhagen hosted the II International Conference of Socialist Women, which was attended by more than 100 women from 17 different

Social Entrepreneur. Shiza Shahid.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Feb 8, 2021
1 min

Social Entrepreneur. Shiza Shahid.

As co-founder and global ambassador of the Malala Fund, Shiza Shahid, manages business operations for Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.4 Like Malala, Shahid was born in Pakistan. She initially reached out to Malala in 2009 and worked to organize a camp for her and other Pakistani girls. In 2012, Shiza flew to Malala's bedside after she was targeted and shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls. Inspire

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Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Feb 4, 2021
1 min

Artistic Minds. Fateemayetcha Amiji Badu.

⁠ She is an indegene of Borno state, she is a passionate photographer and one of the drivers of the #UntoldStoriesOfTheNorthEast online photo campaign. She is a fellow of the Northeast Social Innovation Fellowship – NESIF, a project aimed at countering violent extremism in northeastern Nigeria sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development Office of Transition (USAID /OTI) being implemented by the North East Regional Initiatives-NERI.⁠ ⁠ Fatima is also a

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Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Feb 1, 2021
2 min

Entrepreneurship Education is a Human Right by Yogavelli Nambiar.

A case for democratizing entrepreneurship education to ensure young people's preparedness for the future. Yogavelli Nambiar is the Chief Executive Officer at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. She was previously the Founder-Director of the Enterprise Development Academy at GIBS which she created to offer scholarship-based business education and support to entrepreneurs of start-up, micro and small enterprises. Just over two years old, the Academy team has worked with close to 1

Wise Words. Amanda Gorman, poet.

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Jan 26, 2021
2 min

Wise Words. Amanda Gorman, poet.

Hear me as a woman Have me as your sister On purpled battlefield breaking day, So I might say our victory is just beginning, See me as change, Say I am movement, That I am the year And I am the era Of the women. Amanda Gorman from Won’t You Be My Sister, 2018 Amanda S. C. Gorman (born 1998) is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named Na

Artistic Minds. Adeola Olagunju ⁠

Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Jan 13, 2021
1 min

Artistic Minds. Adeola Olagunju ⁠

✣ Artistic Minds. Adeola Olagunju ⁠ ⁠ She is a Nigerian photographer who lives and works in Lagos. She has worked as a Graphic Artist for Ad

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Montse DomínguezMunllonch

Dec 28, 2020
1 min

Artist Minds. Thandie Newton

✹ Thandie Newton Encourages Us to Stop Asking for Permission⁠ ⁠Actor Thandie Newton talks to Sam Jones about why it's important to take your

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