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  • Editorial: And Miles To Go Before We Sleep…

    Check out our top 100 global trailblazers handpicked for their tremendous achievements, empowering and enabling societies. Women have come a very long way – from the likes of Helen of Troy, being the object of desire (read: a flimsy excuse to invade foreign lands), Hypatia – mercilessly dragged to...
  • Press For Progress: Top Hundred Trailblazers

    International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on the progress we made, a time to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities. As a collective effort and...
  • Rohingya: Crisis Beyond Borders

    Since the eruption of violent conflict in Rakhine State, Myanmar, many thousands of refugees have since crossed the border into Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. Discrimination and marginalisation is nothing new for the Rohingya and they have been fleeing persecution and crossing the border into Bangladesh for decades in search of...
  • Financial Education Indispensable to Women’s Economic Empowerment: STUDY   

    February 27th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): Half of British women have no long-term financial plan and almost a third have no pension, according to a recent study. The alarming research, commissioned by financial services firm Holborn Assets, also revealed that although 30 per cent of those quizzed were in sole charge...
  • Mums@Work Career Fair, first of its kind in MENA

    February 18th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): Following the success of its ‘Return to Work’ programme in 2017, Mums@Work, a UAE-based organisation dedicated to bringing talented women back to the workforce, has announced that it will be hosting the region’s first Return to Work Career Fair. The event will provide the...
  • Calling for Third Women’s Revolution To Enable Augmented Humanity

    Dubai-UAE: 12 February 2018 – At the World Government Summit 2018, Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global asked women to redesign the world they want to inherit. “We are working in a world where to be constantly ‘switched on’ is rewarded, where burnout equals success, where we...
  • The Future of Human Culture

    February 14th, 2018, Dubai (UAE): The way in which we produce and consume culture is transforming in the 21st century and will continue to change thanks to the impact of technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), on creative industries. That was the message delivered in the panel discussion ‘What is the...
  • Growing Cyberspace Threat Demands Policy Leadership and Cooperation

    January 28th, 2018, DAVOS: The increasingly networked, digitized, and connected world is vulnerable to cyber threats that can only be addressed by the combined capabilities of the public and private sectors, according to a new report compiled by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group...
  • Do Tech to Empower

    Education is key to economic empowerment and for societies to flourish sustainably, it is equally important to encourage inclusion. Coupled with this, technology is a tool which can be leveraged for socio-economic benefits – in short for the greater good globally. Together these elements create communities that not only...
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