A few days before the beginning of COP21, the conference on climate to take place in Paris from 30 November, more than 300 artists and leading personalities in the international creative industry signed an open letter addressed to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President of COP21 as well as to the UNFCCC (United Nation framework
Nepal has elected, on 28 October, its second president since it became a democratic republic in 2008. For the first time the president is a woman. Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 54, of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal, has been elected thanks to the vote of 327 members of Parliament against 214. As in other countries, the
The 2015 ranking dedicated to the top 30 LGBT leaders has been published by the Financial Times, UK’s most important economic newspaper. Among them, there’s only one Italian: Alessandro Commisso, 28, in charge of Global Brand Operations at Lush Cosmetics. Commisso is gay, and he believes that the qualities that brought him to be part of
The British Elle magazine has launched the campaign #MoreWomen. It is aimed to give the right visibility to powerful, successful women and to create a positive dialogue in order to achieve gender equality. To do that, the magazine realised a video that shows how women are in some of the world’s highest and most important
Could a seemingly innocuous object like a bicycle contribute to triggering a revolution? This is the question that the website of the documentary Voglio una ruota (I want a wheel) is asking itself, because the invention of bicycles, besides facilitating the right to mobility, encouraged women’s emancipation between the nineteenth and twentieth century. Voglio una ruota is
Tarwi is a legume that has been rediscovered. Thanks to a cooperation project, it will improve the living conditions of the inhabitants of the remote Peruvian province of Huaylas.
The village council of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, has sentenced the 23 year old Meenakshi Kumari and her 15 year old sister to be raped and paraded naked with their faces blackened in the village’s streets. The two sisters are Dalits, members of the lowest tier of the
Seemingly positive news is going to shake the history of the country where women have the least rights in the world and that of the entire Islamic world. Saudi Arabia will allow women to vote and run in municipal elections. The news has been released by local media in conjunction with the start of the
As one of his last acts as Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Johnson signed the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act in May 2015, outlawing female genital cutting (FGC) in the whole country. Nigeria is home to a quarter of the 140 million women and girls who have undergone FGC globally, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
10 talented and ambitious women living in the village of Cyeza, in Rwanda’s Muhanga district, formed a cooperative in 2006. They wanted to develop their artistic specialty, weaving with sisal fibres, and make a living out of it. Each woman has her own story to tell, but they all share one thing: the determination to
