Dr. Dominic Dixon
Ask a Journalist: What does 18 look like around the world through girls’ eyes?
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...
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Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Oct 2, 2018
- 3 min
‘UPSHIFT’ programme helps some of the most disadvantaged young people solve problems | Sudan
"I can’t read or write but I think education is very important in life." KHARTOUM, Sudan, 28 September 2018 – Bahri market, north...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Sep 27, 2018
- 3 min
Gender equality is good for business, leaders say at 2018 WEPs Forum
The 2018 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Forum convenes business leaders and policy experts from Latin America, the Caribbean and...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Sep 13, 2018
- 3 min
The tide is coming in for Indonesia's seaweed
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...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Sep 10, 2018
- 3 min
Pig pens power a solution to climate change in Vietnam
When Trin Gim first started her biogas digester business, she raised many eyebrows. In the little district of Ung Hoa, located south of...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Aug 28, 2018
- 2 min
Historic leap in Tunisia: Women make up 47 per cent of local government
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...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Aug 26, 2018
- 2 min
Somalia has ‘once in a generation’ gender equality opportunity – UN Women chief
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Executive Director of the United Nations entity dealing with issues related to gender, UN Women, has...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Aug 21, 2018
- 3 min
Not Educating Girls Costs Countries Trillions of Dollars, Says New World Bank Report
Limited educational opportunities for girls and barriers to completing 12 years of education cost countries between $15 trillion and $30...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Aug 14, 2018
- 3 min
“It was market day in Bol and I was with two other girls who like me carried explosives” - Halima
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...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Aug 10, 2018
- 4 min
HeForShe in Kosovo's minority communities | Young men help to fight early marriages
Qerim Emini, a 25-year-old man from the Ashkali community in Lipljan, Kosovo had heard many stories of young girls getting married in...
Dr. Dominic Dixon
- Aug 4, 2018
- 3 min
UN Women co-ops uplift agriculture and encourage saving in rural Ethiopia
Through women’s cooperatives, a joint UN programme provides training in agricultural techniques, improved seeds and time-saving...
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