“Without a healthy ocean, life as we know it would not exist.” For Farah Obaidullah of Women4Oceans, gender equality and...
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“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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Solar Sister is bringing solar lighting to hard-to-reach communities in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Women are disproportionately impacted by...
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Where’s gender in the climate change negotiations? The Gender Climate Tracker app and platform answers this question with the latest...
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ALGES is improving living conditions of women wounded in the El Salvador civil war through climate-resilient farming. El Salvador...
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Resolve Trash2Cash is a women-led micro enterprise that transforms attitudes to waste and recycling. Waste has one of the...
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Indigenous Peoples in Mesoamerica are coming together to influence international politics and advocate for their rights in the climate change...
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At the opposite end of poverty tourism you can find Unseen Tours, a social enterprise that supports vulnerably housed individuals...
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To help preserve local heritage and provide formal and financial education, a rural community in Uganda is building its own...
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“Our city is a place we built with our own hands to live in peace.” In Turbaco, a 20-minute...
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Safetipin is on a mission to “build a world where everyone can move around without fear, especially women.” How...
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The community-powered organisation keeps over 8 thousand Black women gamers safe online and advocates for diversity, inclusion and equity in...
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Games for Change is the world’s largest community dedicated to the intersection of games and social impact, empowering game creators...
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“When you contract your pelvic floor, the bird goes up. When you relax it, the bird goes down.” At...
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The Sports Bra Project provides sports bras to those who don’t have access to them, lifting barriers to sports participation....
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The Homeless World Cup harnesses the power of football to put an end to homelessness worldwide. “Football has been...
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“Equity is not secondary to survival, as some suggest; it is survival.” — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilson,...
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Tough Turban offers a solution to close the gap between religious freedom and safety for Canadian Sikh riders. In...
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Bogotá has a new phone number for men who want to hang up on machismo and prevent domestic violence. ...
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The Feira Preta and PretaHub initiatives are turning identity into power and highlighting Brazil’s Black talent to make business a...
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La Caravana Escuela sets up blacksmithing schools in remote communities and sets off a future-fixing chain reaction. At over...
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Kids are running the show in Cotacachi. There’s a rabbit, a princess, a cowboy. Children dancing in circles, a human...
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In the Brazilian Amazon, tiny native seeds are saving forests, communities, and the climate. Any gardener will tell you...
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“We’re the street plants that’ll resist even when you suffocate them with concrete.” There’s a neighbourhood in Colombia that uses...
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This story starts with a pair of shoes and ends with a hotel chain that empowers women at risk of...
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A new soap bar is washing pollutants and harmful bacteria off Andean rivers. Rural communities in the Peruvian Andes...
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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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Is it possible to bring coral reefs back to life? Biorock Indonesia thinks so, with the help of technology and...
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It’s bold, colourful, and sometimes illegal; it makes big statements and spreads joy; it redefines our streets even when it...
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This art collective serves society through the revival of inner city spaces and creates community spirit reflected in urban art....
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‘Creative’ and ‘factory’: two words not often seen together. It’s time they were. About a Worker describes itself as...
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Justice, conservation, wilderness; soulful, ancestral, unconsumable – these are not words usually associated with the fashion industry. But The Lissome...
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An ethical women's enterprise is creating vegan soaps that use plastic-free packaging made from a natural waste material that is...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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A Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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Despite artisan know-how stretching back to ancient times, independent clothes makers around the Mediterranean now struggle against powerful global brands...
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A self-trained robotics engineer is sparking creativity and accelerating science learning in Africa – with a strong focus on rural...
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Forget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world's most threatened biodiversity...
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What if we could rethink, reimagine, remake the world of fashion? Inequality, injustice, pollutants and waste – the fast...
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People have always found ways to use clothes to make a statement. What do yours say? Birdsong began life...
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Rain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
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A youth network in the Mediterranean is flowing with ideas of how to solve the world’s water challenges. They’re the...
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This is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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Resonate unlocks leadership potential of women and girls in East Africa with a training programme dedicated to building self-confidence and leadership....
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Qatar has an extreme climate, fragile ecosystems and a high dependence on non-renewable energy. But that's starting to change thanks...
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MyOmani hopes to inspire the residents and citizens of Oman by promoting sustainable projects and effective practices for a better...
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A counter reads: '1,130,106,730' litres served and counting.' That’s over a billion litres of pure drinking water for the most...
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Environmental activists Zakiya Mckenzie and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley want you to go outside and embrace the countryside, to take in all...
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A new meeting place is weaving a culture of cycling into the fabric of everyday life in Tunisia – with women cyclists...
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We're living in one of the most memorable moments in history. Blavity is the powerful multi-platform, multimedia Black-owned and Black-community serving...
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This water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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These dolls outsell Barbie in Nigeria and so they should. The colourful Queens of Africa help young African girls embrace their...
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By working directly with Bedouin communities, a wild approach to sustainable tourism in Jordan is creating a real impact on...
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A group of activists led by a 'Water Warrior' are on a mission to improve the lives of Detroiters by...
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One of Detroit’s most blighted inner city blocks is being transformed into an eco-village, led by a powerhouse resident with...
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The current face of architecture is not an accurate reflection of what our cities look like. One woman in Detroit...
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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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Are you ready to speak frankly about gender issues and sexual taboos? Because this virtual art gallery wants you to...
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As Wales entered its first lockdown, Mymuna Soleman set up a virtual space for difficult conversations. She just never expected...
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Two women are changing the narrative on Yemen by creating groundbreaking and authentic local artistic content in an extreme environment....
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"Hope is sprouting in the margins, from the grassroots.” – Rhiannon White The stage is set… but not as you know...
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“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
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Backflipping for freedom in Gaza, the Camps Breakerz Crew aren’t letting rubble-strewn pavements stop them dancing in the street. Meet the...
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"I marvel at the talent of youth in impossible situations and their potential to move things.”– Martin Fernando Jakobsen Can...
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The spirit of Mahatma Gandhi lives on in western India, brightening the futures of underprivileged children thanks to NGO Manav Sadhna....
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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Some clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
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Educating girls is fundamental for a sustainable future for East Africa, but only 5 percent of girls graduate. Most spend...
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"When dreams die, they do not make much noise. When hopes are crushed, the signs are soundless." Sheroes Hangout is...
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Pathways for Promise, an initiative within the Asian University for Women, is providing free education to talented women from among Bangladeshi garment...
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This activewear helps clean the oceans, reduces waste and limits the number of pieces in our wardrobes – all while...
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Every second, a garbage truck full of textiles goes to landfill – despite fabric having a significant water, carbon and chemical...
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It is estimated that 600 tons of plastic are disposed off in Uganda daily. Kampala city alone accounts for the...
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Swedish Stockings is the first and only sustainable stocking company that is closing the loop by converting its recycled nylon...
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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Indigenous communities are already experiencing how climate change disrupts traditional ways of life that have been preserved over thousands of...
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When Morocco went into lock-down during the Covid19 crisis, the first thing that Amal Center did was set up a...
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When Guzel Sanzhapova, the founder and owner of Cocco Bello Bow Ties, decided to start producing creamy honey with berries...
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Quite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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The April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
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When it comes to our fruit and vegetables, we’re used to supermarket perfection, but a misshapen carrot or heart-shaped potato...
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“There's an Eskimo on a mass of ice, a Bedouin in the desert and a Polynesian at sea. All three of...
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“Muhra in Arabic means 'foal', but also new beginnings. It represents what we do here." In a discreet five-story building...
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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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As doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
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Rape threats, racist slurs and being followed home are just some of the things that women and girls are subjected...
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A coral reef restoration project run by a community of women on a tiny island off Kenya’s south-east coast is...
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Have you heard of ‘shredder workouts’? They’re fast and furious exercises that shred the fat off your body. And they’re...
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Sex. It never gets old. Why, then, is the idea of older people having it so hard to think about?...
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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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Fertility apps aren’t just for women. Now men can test their sperm count on a smartphone, making medical testing easy,...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that irate grandmas are not to be messed with. Watch out, then, for the...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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The streets of Portugal are being turned into vibrant canvases as ‘wrinkle wall writers’ get to grips with spray cans;...
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Florence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
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Transformed poachers trained as 'blasters' are helping keep elephants from raiding farmers' crops in Zambia – using non-lethal chilli powder...
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Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is inviting everyone to step into the worlds of garment workers in Bangladesh, sex workers in...
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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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In a sea of pharmacies, stationery sellers and coffee shops, one social enterprise in a swarming Lewisham shopping centre, London,...
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"This is not just be a destination for people who want to shop in a socially impactful way – although...
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In an ever-changing creative landscape, today's youth need to become multi-disciplinary – skilled at being creative in different mediums. Pitch Futures...
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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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Creating opportunities for women is exactly what Raven + Lily is all about. A flagbearer for gender equality and female...
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One face forward, another facing back: you’re looking at Jirondai, the legendary shaman with two faces. He gives his name...
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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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Back in 2011 in Rwanda, 16 years after the genocide against the Tutsi sent shock waves across the world, creative...
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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Global sportswear giant Nike has unveiled a hijab designed for female Muslim athletes... and the press went wild. After sparking a flurry of...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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Noelia Morales wants to help evolve how society perceives breast cancer, femininity and beauty. Born out of personal necessity, her...
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Keeping up with the latest fashion can be an expensive business. Constantly buying and throwing away clothes is also really...
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Documentary filmmaker Stalin K Padma is convinced that the lack of diversity in India’s mainstream media results in large swathes...
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Can wool change lives? It can in Buenos Aires, where members of the Villa 31 cooperative turn it into colourful...
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Happiful is a monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission is...
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Iceland is progressive. It ranks first on the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index, is the first to legalise abortion...
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Food has always had a special place in human history. From the multi-religious traditions of “breaking bread” with friends and...
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A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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The Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was a passionate advocate for women’s right to speak out and influence change, and...
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Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail set up Aware Girls when she was just 16-years-old to empower women and girls in her country....
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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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We don’t really think too much about the story behind the soap that we wash with, but this is a...
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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one of...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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Amirah Sackett is break(dancing) stereotypes by using hip-hop to promote religious tolerance. With her female Muslim dance group We're Muslim, Don't Panic,...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
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The world isn’t just losing its biodiversity; human cultures are at risk as well. Across the globe indigenous peoples suffer...
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Nearly three billion people in the world – 160 million in India alone – cook on wood (or similar fuel...
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In the Southern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Chirezi Foundation is helping to bring about peaceful solutions to...
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The phrase 'dog-eat-dog world' was coined in the 19th century with the birth of modern capitalism. As the power looms...
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Submitted by you: Guided by a verse from the Quran, 'To save one life is to save all of humanity',...
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Dengue fever is a fast-growing and sometimes fatal disease which infects an estimated 390 million people every year. In Abingdon,...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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In a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
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Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are part of daily life for kids in Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen. An estimated 4,000...
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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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Agender definition: Without a gender (nongendered, genderless, agender, neutrois); moving between genders or with a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid); third gender or...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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Laki-Laki Peduli, translated as 'men that care', works to reshape common concepts of masculinity in Indonesia. Even in the country’s...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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Access to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
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Known as the bread of the tropics, cassava is arguably the world’s most important and interesting vegetable when it comes...
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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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