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The Golden Hour For The Golden Land: Myanmar’s Need For U.S. Public-Private Partnerships

A BLOG POST BY WENCHI YU AND ANNE MACDONALD FOR FORBES  Recently in Yangon, over a hundred youth representing every region and ethnic minority in Myanmar participated in their first “Tech Camp,” a U.S.-government sponsored conference on using technology to tackle critical challenges. Among the attendees were Chit Ko Ko Win and Ethan Kurt, two Myanmar [...]

Women’s Political Participation: Arab Spring or Arab Autumn?

A BLOG POST BY STEPHENIE FOSTER Honored to have been a part of this important panel at the Woodrow Wilson Center on women’s participation: “Arab Spring or Arab Autumn: Women’s Political Participation in the Arab Uprisings and Beyond.”  

Reflections on Davos: It’s Not Just Women Who Are Working Towards Gender Equality

A BLOG POST BY CHERIE BLAIR FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST Last week, I attended my sixth Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland. I attended many of the sessions in and out of the forum and there was no shortage of women’s faces. But appearances can be deceptive. Many women attending [...]

A new milestone

A BLOG POST BY NIAMH CORBETT, 30% CLUB STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER We are delighted and encouraged by the latest figures released by the Professional Boards Forum, which show that the percentage of women on FTSE 100 boards has crossed the psychological 20% milestone, demonstrating that momentum continues into 2014. Since March 2013, 27% of new [...]

Modern Slavery

A BLOG POST BY BARONESS GOUDIE FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST Action is urgently needed Each week there is a new story hitting the headlines of slavery happening in Britain, not a far off land where it is often considered a by product of unstable governments. This is happening in Britain and it needs to be [...]