This year marks the 60th anniversary for the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), an annual, global forum that takes place in March. The 2016 theme was “Planet 50-50: Step it up for Gender equality” with a call to “Pledge for Parity.” Many pledges connect to Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 5, which strives for gender …
In a recent publication, Science magazine quoted biological anthropologist Nina Jablonski as saying “Skin color is not about race”. She made this statement during a face-off with comedian Stephen Colbert. Her comment is built on over three decades of studying the evolution of the human skin. Dr. Jablonski’s observations have added important ideas to our understanding of how skin …
Three of the world’s best comic book artists pulled out of the running for a lifetime achievement award at the Angoulême comics festival in France because there was an all-male shortlist of nominees. This triggered another seven artists to pull out, forcing the organizers to add women to the list. The exclusion of women is not an unusual …
The African Development Bank just launched the Africa Visa Openness Report 2016, and it highlights a huge problem: as Africans, we cannot move easily between our countries. On average, Africans need visas to travel to 55% of other African countries and can only get visas on arrival in 25% of other countries. This means they can only …
As an entrepreneur based in Bangladesh, having worked at the intersection of technology and development on a range of issues over the last eight years (first at mPower and now at Jeeon), I have constantly been surprised how much we as social entrepreneurs try to box ourselves in a category of our own. Yet, there are a lot …