Quick Questions with the Women Deliver Young Leaders
Yesterday, I had the great opportunity to enter a room full of young leaders at the Women Deliver office in New York City. They are passionate activists and changemakers from Benin, Egypt, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, and the USA. Entering the room, I listened in on their strong conversation about feminism, gender equality, intersectionality, the United […]
Planet 50-50 by 2030: Making Gender Equality a Reality
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. The world just began a new 15-year journey yesterday, Friday 25 September 2015, when leaders from across the globe adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The SDGs have emerged from three years of negotiations to address […]
Have You Seen My Rights?
This week, world leaders have come together to set targets on some of the world’s biggest issues. Have You Seen My Rights? is a global coalition of organisations that working together to make sure this happens. Launched this week during the UN General Assembly, Have You Seen My Rights? is urging world leaders to make #5pledges to young people’s […]
Availability and Affordability of Contraceptives is Access
“I am 17 years old and a mother of two. I was impregnated by my then ‘boyfriend’ who was my schoolmate and older than me from a wealthy family. He showered me with gifts some of which my single mum who worked as a casual laborer and had 6 children could not provide. When I […]
