Baroness Goudie

U.N. Women’s Michelle Bachelet: An Effective Advocate for the World’s Women

A BLOG POST BY STEPHENIE FOSTER FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
U.N. undersecretary Michelle Bachelet wasn’t on the recently released Time 100 Most Influential People of 2012, but she’s certainly on my list of the most influential people in the world. For those of you who don’t know her, Bachelet is the first Executive [...]

CNN: Meet Fortune 500’s female powerbrokers

A BLOG POST BY BARONESS GOUDIE
This week I was asked to comment in a CNN article entitled ‘Meet Fortune 500’s female powerbrokers’ This was following the release of Fortune’s latest ranking of America’s 500 largest corporations which includes more women CEOs than ever before.
Women lead 18 of the 500 companies, including Hewlett-Packard (10th) run by [...]

International Day for Street Children 12th April – ‘Challenging perception’

A BLOG POST BY LOUISE MEINCKE, ADVOCACY DIRECTOR, CONSORTIUM FOR STREET CHILDREN

The International Day for Street Children is celebrated every year on 12 April. The day provides a platform for the      millions of street children around the world – and their champions – to speak out so that their rights cannot be ignored.
The [...]

Women’s History Month: 5 Ways You Can Make a Difference this March

A BLOG POST BY STEPHENIE FOSTER FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
March is Women’s History Month, so there will be lots of events and celebrations celebrating women. There are so many inspiring stories of great work, often against overwhelming odds, to break down barriers to women’s full participation in society, whether those barriers were created by social [...]

Hitting Children Is Wrong, and the Law Should Say So

A BLOG POST BY CATHERINE HODDER FOR THE CHILDREN ARE UNBEATABLE! ALLIANCE
“It is extraordinary that children, whose developmental state and small size is acknowledged to make them particularly vulnerable to physical and psychological injury, should be singled out for less protection from assaults on their fragile bodies, minds and dignity.”
Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights, [...]

2012 International Women of Courage Award Winners

Office of Global Women’s Issues – US Department of State
March 5, 2012

Honorable Maryam Durani, Kandahar Provincial Council Member
Afghanistan
Kandahar Province is among Afghanistan’s most conservative and most dangerous – but that has not stopped Maryam Durani from speaking out for the rights of Afghan women and girls. As a member of Kandahar’s Provincial Council, director [...]

When Families Turn Murderous

A BLOG POST BY ABIGAIL PESTA FOR WOMEN IN THE WORLD CONFERENCE
In a dramatic opening-night panel at the Women in the World Summit Thursday, two brave women shared harrowing tales of escape—from their own families. Both women, Sabatina James and Jasvinder Sanghera, fled their families to avoid disappearing into forced marriage, and both paid a [...]

Women in Society

A BLOG POST BY BARONESS GOUDIE FROM THE HUFFINGTON POST
International Women’s Day is an important celebration of the great strides women around the world are making to ensure they are recognised and working towards equality. During the last year we have seen some incredible acts of bravery throughout the Arab world, and globally we have [...]

The White Ribbon Alliance Dreams for My Daughter

The White Ribbon Alliance Dreams for My Daughter 
Exhibition by Joanna Vestey at WOW – Women of the World at Southbank Centre, London 8-11 March 2012
A BLOG POST BY JENNY ROSE, Press Officer at The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
FILM: http://youtu.be/dC-6nNxGLRY
Mothers and fathers the world over have dreams for their daughters; for [...]

Women Advance the Fundamentals for Haiti’s Future

A BLOG POST BY STEPHENIE FOSTER
I just returned from Haiti, where I was working with women convened by the Haitian group Femmes en Democratie to develop a women’s policy platform. In Creole, nap vanse means we advance, and it is critical that Haitians move forward together to build a stronger country and a stronger [...]