Egyptian Woman Could be UNESCO’s First Director-General from Africa
By: Ismail Akwei Moushira Khattab, Egyptian human rights advocate and the country’s nominee for UNESCO director-general position could be the cultural agency’s first leader from the African region. She is contesting with eight other nominees in the October 9 election which will take place at the ongoing UNESCO Executive Board meeting in the French capital Paris. The former family and population minister faces strong competition from China’s Tang Qian who is UNESCO’s assistant director-general for education; former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay; and former Qatari culture minister Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari. They seek to replace the outgoing director-general Irina Bokova, a former Bulgarian foreign minister who became the first woman and first eastern European to lead the organization in 2009. She served the maximum two four-year terms as one of the only ten directors in its 72-year history; seven of whom have come from Europe and North America. Moushira Khattab’s…
Russia: Women are Being Forced Back into Bad Marriages
By: Anna Arutunyan Women in this ultra-conservative region have long suffered repressive conditions because of strict Muslim doctrine practiced here. Now they face a…
THE SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA-MIDDLE EAST- ASIA WOMEN SUMMIT (SAMEAWS), DUBAI-UAE 2017
Women, STEM & the future of Innovation and Sustainability in Emerging Economies Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai-UAE 14th December 2017. SUMMIT OVERVIEW & OBJECTIVES Owing…
SOUTH KOREA APPROVES $8M AID PACKAGE FOR NORTH KOREA
South Korea has approved an $8m (£5.9m) aid package for North Korea, in a humanitarian gesture at odds with calls by Japan and the…
Nigeria to Host African Rural Women Farmers
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, will from Monday, September 25, play host to rural women farmers from more than 15 countries on the continent. Delegates…
Saudi Arabia: Women to Participate in National Celebrations for the First Time
Saudi Arabia has invited women to a sports stadium for the first time to attend the annual national day celebrations with their families, state…
Raising a Creative Child: What You Need to Know
Creativity is the ability to generate or make up stuff that is unique and often has practical or artistic value. It is also a…
Sonia Dulá: Coloring the Female Corporate World
Sonia Dulá is the Vice Chairman for Latin America at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Global Corporate and Investment Banking Division. Before this role,…
Halimah Yacob: Singapore’s First Female President
Halimah Yacob became Singapore’s first female president on the 13th of September 2017. This makes her the 12th woman to serve as president in…
Netherland Women Plan Protest Over Lack of Female Toilets
Protests are being planned at urinals across Amsterdam over the lack of female public toilet facilities after a judge criticized a woman for not…
Expressing Meaning through Abstract Paintings
Julie Mehretu is a contemporary Ethiopian-born American artist. She was born in the year 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, not as an artist but…
ICOGAS 2017 – Putting Gender and Sustainability in Emerging Economies on the front burners
It was a glamorous, enriching and inspiring experience for all participants, as female heads of Governments, world’s first ladies, female business leaders, academics and…
