Girls have long been the subject of photographers’ lens—but they have far less often been the ones behind it. When we set out to document...

"I can’t read or write but I think education is very important in life." KHARTOUM, Sudan, 28 September 2018 – Bahri market, north...

The 2018 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Forum convenes business leaders and policy experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and...

Do you know much about seaweed farming? No? Well, neither did we until our interest was piqued by a story in The Jakarta Post about a...

When Trin Gim first started her biogas digester business, she raised many eyebrows. In the little district of Ung Hoa, located south of...

Seven years after the 2011 Revolution and four years after the adoption of the Constitution, women now make up 47 per cent of the local...

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of the United Nations entity dealing with issues related to gender, UN Women, has...

Limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education cost countries between $15 trillion and $30...

Halima Yakoy Adam won’t forget 22nd December in 2015, the day she was supposed to carry out a suicide bomb attack in the Lac Region town...

Qerim Emini, a 25-year-old man from the Ashkali community in Lipljan, Kosovo  had heard many stories of young girls getting married in...

Through women’s cooperatives, a joint UN programme provides training in agricultural techniques, improved seeds and time-saving...