Geraldine Byrne-Nason, Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations

A Feminist World Is an Equal World

Women and their male allies continue to fight for gender equality despite the coronavirus interfering with their annual UN gathering.

“We Empower” Is The First Global Business Competition for Women Entrepreneurs

Women entrepreneurs advance the UN’s Global Goals. Five of them pitched their businesses to a panel convened by Diane von Furstenberg.

Habiba Ali, founder, managing director and CEO of Sosai Renewable Energies

Habiba Ali Brings Renewable Energy to Nigeria

AWT talked with Habiba Ali, winner of the WE Empower business competition, about bringing renewable energies to Nigeria.

Maryana Bilski, founder of BunnyJack.com, an online shop that sells pre-owned couture and high-end fashion

Maryana Bilski Is Paying Fashion Forward

Part online fashion store, part philanthropic organization, and part vehicle for its founder’s own personal development, Maryana Bilski’s BunnyJack is a unique NYC-based enterprise with a backstory nearly as curious as its name.

What Will It Take to Get Women on Equal Economic Footing With Men?

If women played an identical role to men in the labor market, they would add 28 trillion dollars to the global economy by 2025. Poverty rates would fall, more children would be healthier and in school, and the world would be more politically stable.

Invisible Wounds, study by Save the Children

The Invisible Wounds Afflicting Syria’s Children

For six years now, children in Syria have been living with the constant fear of being killed and, according to a report released today by Save The Children, the psychological toll has sparked a growing mental health crisis.

Kyung-wha Kang, Amina J. Mohammed, Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti

New UN Appointments Signal Big Move Towards Gender Parity

Under new leadership, the United Nations is finally taking measures to redress its long recognized failure to promote women’s leadership of the institution.

Revenge 2.0: The Rise of Nonconsensual Porn

The internet is a vast resource, one that can enlighten and educate us. But for victims of nonconsensual pornography, it can be a murky pool, in which lurk painful reminders of a violation that only takes a Google search to uncover.

Antonio Guterres campaigns on a promise of gender parity

New UN Head Antonio Guterres Pledges Gender Equality

To the chagrin of many, the UN’s next leader will be not a woman. However, he—Antonio Guterres, former Portuguese prime minister and head of the UN refugee committee—did campaign on a promise of gender parity.

Young Afghan Activist Refuses to Give Up on Her Country

Activist Noorjahan Akbar’s stubborn optimism about the future of her native Afghanistan offers a compelling counternarrative to the bleak picture painted by Western media.

Rejected by the World: A Refugee’s Journey

The war that has so far claimed over a quarter million Syrian lives, including those of 30,000 children, has also displaced Thair and his entire family, disrupted his studies, and left the recent university graduate feeling squeezed out of the successful future he had long imagined and worked hard to achieve.

Performance Art Project #OrangeVest Sends SOS for Refugees

For a moment last summer the photograph of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on the shores of Izmir, roused near-universal empathy for people seeking refuge in Europe from violent conflict at home. Of the more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan, who arrived in Europe since the beginning of 2015, over 85 percent entered Europe through Greece.