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✺ 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.

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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

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. ( 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

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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

Poem | This Is Not A Feminist Poem by WanaWana⁠ ⁠ This is not a feminist by WanaWana is a poem that looks at female injustice, violence and marginalization. It addresses society's hypocrisy and complacency towards the plethora of issues facing African women⁠ When you have been in the doldrums for so long, when all you've known is how to adapt and survive, anything else just feels like you are asking for too much '- Wana Udobang Who is this remarkable woman ? Wana Udobang, als

Khanyi Chaba comes into this talk as head of responsible business in one of Africa’s largest insurance companies. In her own words, she feels great responsibility to help repair the future, and leave behind a world that is sound and sustainable for future generations. She is also a long distance runner who has completed some of the world's most challenging ultramarathons multiple times, and a mountaineer who has summited some of the planet’s highest peaks. Khanyi makes the po

Talk about us :DR. MAIRO MANDARA⁠ An obstetrician-gynaecologist by training, Mairo Mandara works with the foundation’s Nigerian partners to help improve the lives of the country’s #poorestpeople Before joining the foundation, she served as a senior country advisor to Nigeria for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and as the Nigeria-based health systems advisor for the Earth Institute at Columbia University.⁠ ⁠ When people ask about my job, I tell them, “I work at the Gat

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Women who has changed the world. Wangari Maathai.⁠ ⁠ ⎰ I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to

✥ Divergent Thinking | OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI 's Talk. Today we 'd like to present a vey special speech of Obiageli "Oby" Ezekwesili, She is a Nigerian national, was appointed Vice President for the World Bank's Africa Region in 2007. She oversees more than 1600 staff and is responsible for the delivery of projects and economic and sectoral work in 47 Sub-Saharan countries. Oby joined the Bank from her most recent position as Minister of Education in the Government of Nigeria,

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✦ Women's Representation in Major Peace Processes.⁠ Women remain under-represented and unrecognized for their efforts and successes in peace and political processes at all levels (between 1990 and 2017). ⁠ ⁠ ✔︎ 2 % Mediators⁠ ✔︎ 5 % Witnesses & signatories⁠ ✔︎ 8 % Negotiators⁠ ⁠ ⁠Between 1992 and 2019, women constituted, on average, 13 percent of negotiators, 6 percent of mediators, and 6 percent of signatories in major peace processes around the world. In many cases, women a

Choosing a path of service: Amina J Mohammed . Ms Amina J. Mohammed was Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from November 2015 to December 2016, where she steered the country’s efforts on climate action, protecting the natural environment and conserving resources for sustainable development. Prior to this, she served as Special Adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Post-2015 Development Planning, where she was instrumental in bringing about the 20