Ireland to vote on removing ‘sexist’ references to women from constitution
Dublin, Ireland Reuters Ireland is poised to vote on Friday – International Women’s Day – to replace constitutional references on the importance of a woman’s “life within the home”, the latest attempt to update its socially conservative 1937 founding document. While social change in the once deeply Catholic nation has spurred the removal of bans […]
Compassion Australia CEO’s mission to end child marriage
Sydney, Australia For Clare Steele, International Women’s Day is personal. A mother and advocate living in Newcastle, New South Wales, Steele believes International Women’s Day is “not about empowering ourselves; it’s about promoting others”. As a result, she’s working hard this March to speak up for women – and especially girls – whose voices are […]
Finding hope and a future
In an article marking International Women’s Day, SALLY BRUCE, of DFN (Dignity Freedom Network), looks at how the organisation is working to set women free…
ESSAY: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SHOULD CELEBRATE INVISIBLE WOMEN TOO – LIKE MY MOTHER
With the world having marked International Women’s Day last Sunday, RHONA MURUNGI, in an article published by Religion News Service, says it’s important we recognise the work of those “local heroes” who don’t make headlines…
Africa’s first elected female president to train ‘wave’ of women leaders
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Liberia’s trail-blazing former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will launch a plan on Sunday to help other African women reach the top in a continent dominated by male heads of state. Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, became Africa’s first elected female head of state in 2006 and stepped down in […]
India PM Modi hands over his social media accounts for Women’s Day
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hand over his social media accounts on Sunday to celebrate inspiring women on International Women’s Day, months after facing criticism over a series of high-profile rape cases. With more than 50 million followers on Twitter, Modi, 69, has one of the biggest followings on […]
Will #MeToo lead to change? Not for all women, finds survey
Thomson Reuters Foundation A global movement to stop sexual harassment of women will spark change but not for everyone, with poorer women still scared to report abuse fearing blame and backlash, according to a street survey and women’s rights experts in five continents. Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8th March, the Thomson Reuters Foundation […]