Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Empowerment'
Empowering Pakistani Women through Education and Family Planning
by Zubeida Mustafa -Pakistan- Empowerment is opening up new spaces for personal development for women in Pakistan. As opportunities for education come within their reach women are learning how to upgrade their lives. This has brought the realization that a...
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty, Illiteracy, and Discrimination in India
by Lesley D. Biswas -India- Poverty, illiteracy and gender disparity are engrained in the Indian society. Key indicators of social development such as health and education are below average. The World Bank estimates India is home to 456 million people...
Half the Sky: Why You Must Join the Global Movement to Emancipate Women
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - For me and my colleagues, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s new book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is exhilarating. Already in its 17th printing, Half...
Video Testimonials Document Politically Motivated Sexual Violence in Zimbabwe
by Abigail Wendle - USA - According to the Zimbabwe Rape Survivors Association, during last year’s highly contested presidential election an estimated 2,000 women and girls were the targets of politically-motivated sexual violence in Zimbabwe. State-sanctioned groups under President Robert...
Expression: A Newspaper in India Gives Women a Voice
by Mridu Khullar - India - The male vice-principal of a woman's college in Gwalior, India physically assaults fellow female faculty members and students by grabbing them and throwing them against walls. Kalpana Saxena, 37, publishes accounts of women affected...
Empowerment for Peace: Afghanistan’s Unlikely Presidential Candidate
by Abigail Wendle - USA - When Hamid Karzai became Afghanistan’s first democratically elected president in 2004, the new government established a constitution that proclaimed equality for men and women, promising to enforce international standards of human rights. But throughout...
Empowerment through Microfinance: Pro Mujer Gives Women in Peru “the confidence to keep moving forward”
by Jenna Mulhall-Brereton - USA - Elsa Gómez Mamani sits on the ruins of a stone wall on a cold but sunny morning in a field high on the Andean altiplano. We are in southern Peru, on the shores of...
Dignity: Women in Mumbai Avoid Harassment on the 'Ladies Special' Commuter Train
by Mridu Khullar - India - 5:49 pm: The local Western Railway train pulls up at the Churchgate station in Mumbai. People on various platforms rush from one corner to the other, preoccupied with getting to their next destination on...
Bosnian Businesswomen: Rebuilding a Nation
by Jozefina Cutura - USA - With Hillary Clinton’s recent campaign for the presidency in the United States at its end and women leaders taking charge in countries from Chile to Liberia, women’s advances in politics are making headlines. But...
Charred Yet Smoldering: Indian Women Stand Up to Their Husbands' Violence
by Pushpa Iyer - USA - Two weeks ago, late in the evening, Soma Bakshi, an educated, middle class young woman in Kolkata was set on fire by her husband and in-laws. This “incident” was preceded by a severe beating...
TechnoServe Transforms Lives by Investing in Rural Guatemalan Entrepreneurs
by Marianne Taflinger Intern, The WIP USA • A woman and her children on the banks of Lake Atitlán in the highlands of Guatemala. Photograph courtesy of Bruno Girin •To people born in the highlands of Guatemala, life choices look...
Women Power in the Philippine Elections
by Imelda Abaño Philippines On May 14, 2007, as the Philippines is scheduled for national elections. For this year's general mid-term elections, 87,000 candidates are running for 17,000 national and local positions, which include all of the 250 seats in...
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