Baroness Goudie

Hillary Clinton: Her Brilliant Career

VOGUE.COM: Jonathan Van Meter reports
It is a dreary morning in early October in Washington, D.C., and perhaps because Hillary Rodham Clinton is wearing a black Oscar de la Renta suit on such a colorless day, she seems somber. I had trailed her for nearly two weeks this summer in Africa and then again in [...]

Baroness Goudie’s reply to the Queen’s speech at the House of Lords 19 November 2009

My Lords, I welcome the gracious Speech and the speeches of noble Lords across the House who spoke yesterday. I want to mention a few items today: the Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill, Afghanistan, the international aid Bill and the G20. I declare an interest as patron of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland and a [...]

Rebecca Lolosoli – a true leader

A GUEST POST BY MARY DALEY YERRICK
Rebecca Lolosoli is an extraordinary community leader. More than a matriarch of a life-transforming group, she is the glue that holds it together. Samburu women are among the most marginalized groups in Kenya. With a low status in society, scarce access to education, they are last to receive [...]

Stopping Modern Day Slavery

A GUEST POST BY WENCHI YU
Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery, is one of the most egregious violations of human rights and crimes. Women, men, and children are the face of victims, most often found in forced sexual and labor exploitation. No countries are immune to human trafficking. According to various UN reports, 12.3 [...]

Chatham House 2011 Award to Aung San Suu Kyi

A Note from Baroness Goudie

My intention in writing this blog is to bring to the forefront of people’s minds issues of inequality, human rights and human trafficking. These issues are happening daily and we need to be more conscious of them to bring pressure on civil society, the private sector and governments around the world to campaign to eliminate [...]

Stories That Matter

Economic Summit for Ghanaian Women

A GUEST POST BY STEPHENIE FOSTER —
Recently, I travelled to Accra, Ghana to participate as a speaker and trainer in a two-day economic summit, co-sponsored by Vital Voices, the Eagle Women’s Empowerment Club (EWEC), a club of 450 Ghanaian women who own small and medium-sized businesses, and the Exxon Mobil Foundation.

Creating Opportunities in Hard Times

A GUEST POST BY AVILA KILMURRAY –

I was recently at the Windsor Women’s Centre – located in the Village area of south-west Belfast – a largely loyalist community of traditional mill houses that have outlasted the linen mills that they were built to serve. It is an area that experiences high rates of unemployment; a [...]

Interesting Reads

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era—the oppression of women in the developing world—and tell us what we can do about it.

Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a [...]