Celebrating Queen Mother: A Frontier SDG Hero
Queen Mother, the Global Ambassador for Africa at the United Nations and Founder of New Future Foundation has been honored as a Frontier SDG (Sustainable Development Goal) Hero. The Decade Of Women action campaign, a core initiative of 5th Element Group, is honoring Frontier SDG Heroes that are leading the charge in accomplishing the U.N. […]
The 10 Most Dangerous Countries For Women
Seven years ago a Thomson Reuters Foundation experts’ survey found the five most dangerous countries for women were Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India, and Somalia. This year we set out to see if the situation had changed. We wanted to find out whether more was being done to address the overall risks faced […]
Disney Empowers Aspiring Young Filmmakers
21 young women from 13 countries will produce and direct digital shorts to inspire the next generation of women. Disney has announced a new global project giving 21 talented young women from different corners of the globe the chance to make digital shorts telling the stories of inspiring female role models. The #DreamBigPrincess series will […]
As World Cup Kicks Off, FIFA Urged to Fight Iran’s Ban on Women in Stadiums
An Iranian football fan demanded that FIFA’s president put pressure on her home country to overturn a ban on women attending stadium matches as the World Cup kicks off in Russia. Maryam Qashqaei hopes the world’s biggest single-event sporting competition will galvanise support for an online petition she plans to present to FIFA President Gianni […]
Sundance Wants Women to Swap Casting Couch For Director’s Chair
Women must get off the casting couch and into the director’s chair if Hollywood is to move on from the #MeToo sexual harassment scandal, filmmakers said at the British opening of the Sundance Film Festival. Most films showcased at the British offshoot of the U.S. festival are directed by women, in a selection that champions female […]
Meet The Guy Creating Clean Diesel Fuel From Beans
Positive environmental actions are celebrated on World Environment Day on June 5. But for South Africa’s Thabang Mabapa, who’s working on turning castor oil into a biodiesel, it’s a daily matter. An agriculture and energy entrepreneur, Mabapa founded Selokong Sa Dimelana, an organization that focuses on the farming, processing and distribution of castor oil for biodiesel […]
12-Year-Old Boy And Refugee Swim From Robben Island
A Congolese refugee and a 12-year-old boy, inspired by Mandela’s legacy, teamed up to complete a five-mile swim from Robben Island in Cape Town to raise funds for charity. The Freedom Day Swim took place on 21 April and saw people from around the world swim from Robben Island to the mainland. The island is […]
Kate Hudson’s Fabletics Empowers Women to Lead
Fabletics, an active-lifestyle brand co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, has launched a global capsule collection to benefit the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up initiative. For over a year and a half, Fabletics and Girl Up have joined forces to support a common mission – to make girls leaders of tomorrow through the empowerment of girls worldwide. Since […]
10 Things I Learned From Sheryl Sandberg’s New Class About Resiliency
Sheryl Sandberg’s life changed forever the moment she found her husband, successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur and SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, dead in a hotel gym during their 2015 family vacation in Punta Mita, Mexico. Goldberg, 43 at the time of his death, had suffered heart complications and is survived by Sandberg and their two children. Coping with Goldberg’s death was, and still isn’t, […]
Jawed Karim, Co-founder of Youtube
Jawed Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Muslim Bangladeshi who works as a researcher at 3M and his mother, Christine, is a German scientist of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. He crossed the old East-West German border with his family in 1981 and grew up in Neuss, […]
