This month, as part of the Education Team’s focus on Equal Access, I read (ok, I listened to) Let It Go by Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH. The book tells her story from being a Kindertransport refugee from Vienna, to an entrepreneur founding a software company in 1962, to her career as a philanthropist and letting...
A survey conducted by Microsoft in Europe found that young girls are interested in pursuing STEM subjects at age 11 and then rapidly lose interest in their teens. The innumerable reasons for girls not entering STEM industries range from peer pressure, to a lack of role models and parental support, to a general difficulty in...
“Knowledge gives discipline, from discipline comes worthiness, from worthiness, one gets wealth, from wealth one does good deeds, and from that comes joy.” This Sanskrit shloka was written in 200 BCE and holds true today, in that education is all-empowering and pivotal to building sustainable communities.
Historically, sections of society had deliberately limited access...
The Education Team’s focus for October and November is Equal Access, which encompasses SDG Targets 4.2 & 4.5. Our November ‟Notes from the Field” focus on the ‟E” and ‟M” of STEM Education: Engineering and Math – traditionally fields where girls and women have been discouraged from entering, thereby denying them equal access to a...
“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the...
All-pervasive
Palm oil is found in almost everything we use or eat every day. It is in day-to-day items where you wouldn’t even think to look for it, but there it is anyway – cookies, pizza, shampoo, soap, margarine, biofuel, cooking oil, peanut butter, washing detergent, chocolate, ice cream and even lipstick. And the list...
COP26 has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we cannot postpone the climate emergency! Momentum has to be not only maintained, but intensified. That is the key message of the virtual meetings that took place at this interesing Sustainable Innovation Forum on November 16–20. Many interesting speakers from...
We have a huge opportunity!
Through conversations, we can transform the possibilities for the last chapters of our lives...
Not just our own, but for our loved ones, whether they are living in the next city or – as is often the case for expat women – across an ocean!
There are still 3+ solid weeks to plan for the 16 Days of Activism to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence.
Now is the time, and the Human Rights Team offers many resources and ideas in a folder here.
Join us, and give voice and empowerment to women and girls and their allies worldwide.
The cause of our time: ending violence against women?
The convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is called the Istanbul Convention. It was agreed to in 2010 and came into force in 2014.
Quick facts about the Istanbul Convention:
