May 25, 2017 | Action Corner, Women's Health
Search for: Caption: First Lady of Benin Claudine Talon (left), First Lady of Burkina Faso Sika Kabore (center), First Lady of Niger, Lalla Malika (right) These first ladies vow to fight “barbaric” genital mutilation Around the world, there are at least 200 million...
May 21, 2017 | Action Corner, Politics
Search for: From Baltimore to Bangladesh, let’s end child marriage! New Jersey was poised to make history last Thursday, barring a veto from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, when it could become the first state in the United States to set the legal age of...
May 10, 2017 | Action Corner, Legal Services
Search for: The Economics of Access to Justice In our civil courts in New York City, there are not enough lawyers to go around, so most clients who cannot afford to hire attorneys, have to manage complicated and intimidating cases in a complex legal system on their...
Jan 13, 2017 | Action Corner, Blog
Search for: More than 4,500 women have signed up to run for office since the election through the She Should Run organization. Courtney Peters-Manning decided it was time to run for office immediately after the 2016 election results came in. Upset by the “incredibly...
Nov 17, 2016 | Action Corner, Entrepreneurship
Search for: How Internet Access Led to Success for This Rwandan Shop As the sun goes down on the town of Kigali in Rwanda, a young woman is negotiating with some of her last customers of the day at Turikumwe Art Center, a social business that reinvests its income to...
Nov 15, 2016 | Action Corner, Organizations We Love
Search for: Action Corner: #BringBackOurGirls The campaign Bring Back Our Girls, is still working around the clock to bring back every single one of them alive. Ramaa Mosley runs the US website bringbackourgirlsgirls.us and the Facebook, ...
