Shamo Thar: Creating an Action-Based Model for Teaching
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Empowering Women, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank Shamo Thar is one of the driving forces of sustainable change and female empowerment in western China. She established the development studies program at Qinghai Normal University. As a teacher ...
Shamo Thar: Creating an Action-Based Model for Teaching
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Empowering Women, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank Shamo Thar is one of the driving forces of sustainable change and female empowerment in western China. She established the development studies program at Qinghai Normal University. As a teacher ...
Baba Wamé: Award-Winning Work to End Human Trafficking
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Empowering Women, Green News | Comments OffNominated by Laurent Haug I can say I have seen my share of great ideas and people in the past four years, with close to 200 speakers attending Lift. One guy stands out when I think ...
Bearing Children: Not Always a Woman’s Choice
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Posted in Empowering Women, Green News | Comments OffMany women throughout the rural deserts of Jordan do not control the timing of their own pregnancies, according to a recent survey. Women regularly discuss family planning with their husbands, yet only 54 percent said ...
Interview: Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund for Women
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Empowering Women, Green News | Comments OffBy Britt Bravo "I think there are many different ways in which you define leadership. As a feminist, and as a feminine feminist, I truly believe that we don't do a very good job in the United ...
More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Empowering Women, Green News | Comments Offfrom the Worldwatch Institute Washington, D.C.- Unwanted childbearing is a greater demographic force than the desire for large families, and may have been for centuries, suggests Robert Engelman, Vice President at the Worldwatch Institute, in his new ...