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Fantasy and speculative fiction offer more than escape—they reflect real-world struggles and challenge existing power structures. This time around, Ananke’s Festival of Literature 2025 unveils a series of engaging sessions where authors, critics and creatives discuss how imagined worlds become vehicles for truth, justice, and rebellion. The three-day, digital...
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Ananke’s flagship training and mentoring program, Empower, has recently partnered with one of Pakistan’s leading education and development organizations, The Citizens Foundation (TCF) for its youth empowerment initiative. Selected fellows of the program will also take part in the upcoming Ananke Festival of Literature 2025, happening on April 29th...
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New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveals limited progress in achieving gender equality in political leadership at the start of 2025, the year which marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the landmark UN framework which set out the roadmap...
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Women’s and girls’ rights are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections, and less funding for programs and institutions that support and protect women. UN Women’s latest report, “Women’s Rights in Review 30 Years After Beijing”, published ahead of the UN 50th International Women’s...
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Home #itscomplicated, the latest book by Abu Dhabi based author, Saba Karim Khan, was launched at the Karachi Literature Festival this month. The book is already in its next print run. Home #itscomplicated rests on one conviction: Pakistan—home to over 240 million people, 70-80 languages and fascinating natural diversity—cannot...
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Ananke, in collaboration with independent, award-winning publishing house Yoda Press, is organizing an exclusive digital book launch: ‘Sum of Worlds – A Conversation with Naima Rashid’ on February 20th, 2025 at 1.00 PM UK, 5.00 PM UAE, 6.30 PM India . Naima Rashid is an author, poet and translator...
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February 2nd, 2025, (Sharjah, UAE): “Being the first to do something is always the hardest. There is no path to follow and no precedent. But overcoming those challenges is what makes you shine,” world tennis champion and empowerment icon, Sania Mirza, asserted to a packed audience at the Sharjah...
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January 2025, (Karachi, Pakistan): CaterpillHERs, a platform empowering women in freelancing, entrepreneurship, and leadership, is partnering with CodeGirls, a community-funded coding boot camp that trains women in tech, to launch a Freelance Accelerator Program in January 2025. This 14-week program will help women gain the skills, confidence, and connections...
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(New York City, USA): As the crisis in Sudan continues to deepen, UN Women has just published a new Gender Alert on the impact of the conflict on women and girls. More than 11 million people have been displaced as of October 2024, with more than half (54 per cent) being women...
Fantasy and speculative fiction offer more than escape—they reflect real-world struggles and challenge existing power structures. This time around, Ananke’s Festival of Literature 2025 unveils a series of engaging sessions where authors, critics and creatives discuss how imagined worlds become vehicles for truth, justice, and rebellion. The three-day, digital...
Ananke’s flagship training and mentoring program, Empower, has recently partnered with one of Pakistan’s leading education and development organizations, The Citizens Foundation (TCF) for its youth empowerment initiative. Selected fellows of the program will also take part in the upcoming Ananke Festival of Literature 2025, happening on April 29th...
New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveals limited progress in achieving gender equality in political leadership at the start of 2025, the year which marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the landmark UN framework which set out the roadmap...
Women’s and girls’ rights are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections, and less funding for programs and institutions that support and protect women. UN Women’s latest report, “Women’s Rights in Review 30 Years After Beijing”, published ahead of the UN 50th International Women’s...
Home #itscomplicated, the latest book by Abu Dhabi based author, Saba Karim Khan, was launched at the Karachi Literature Festival this month. The book is already in its next print run. Home #itscomplicated rests on one conviction: Pakistan—home to over 240 million people, 70-80 languages and fascinating natural diversity—cannot...
Ananke, in collaboration with independent, award-winning publishing house Yoda Press, is organizing an exclusive digital book launch: ‘Sum of Worlds – A Conversation with Naima Rashid’ on February 20th, 2025 at 1.00 PM UK, 5.00 PM UAE, 6.30 PM India . Naima Rashid is an author, poet and translator...
February 2nd, 2025, (Sharjah, UAE): “Being the first to do something is always the hardest. There is no path to follow and no precedent. But overcoming those challenges is what makes you shine,” world tennis champion and empowerment icon, Sania Mirza, asserted to a packed audience at the Sharjah...
January 2025, (Karachi, Pakistan): CaterpillHERs, a platform empowering women in freelancing, entrepreneurship, and leadership, is partnering with CodeGirls, a community-funded coding boot camp that trains women in tech, to launch a Freelance Accelerator Program in January 2025. This 14-week program will help women gain the skills, confidence, and connections...
(New York City, USA): As the crisis in Sudan continues to deepen, UN Women has just published a new Gender Alert on the impact of the conflict on women and girls. More than 11 million people have been displaced as of October 2024, with more than half (54 per cent) being women...
