Source: UK Guardian
Four decades on since woman began the campaign for equality, we asked seven modern-day activists to tell us why they believe the battle is still not won
Susie Orbach. Interviews by Shahesta …

GENEVA (ILO News) – The global youth unemployment rate has reached its highest level on record, and is expected to increase through 2010, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report issued to …

Source: The Body
By Ayana Byrd
July 26, 2010
Vienna, Austria — At a talk following a standing-ovation screening of The Other City, a documentary about HIV in Washington, D.C., executive producer Sheila Johnson made …

Source: The Daily Best
by Dayo Olopade
July 24th, 2010
Man Up, a provocative campaign to convince men to fight violence against women, kicked off in South Africa during the World Cup. Dayo Olopade reports …

Source: Global Fund for Women
on July 28, 2010

By Dianne Gallo
Picture:Nadine Louis, a leader of Fondation TOYA, a GFW grantee.

Earlier this month, I traveled to Port-au-Prince as a part of a Global Fund for Women …

Source: DESA News
Volume 14, No.8 – August 2010
The International Year of Youth, commencing on the United Nations annual Day of Youth, 12 August 2010, celebrates and focuses on the importance of youth around …

Source: Campus Progress
A young feminist who has done cutting-edge online organizing is sick of reading articles that say young feminists don’t exist.

By Stephanie Herold
Picture: Flickr / Ron Wiecki
July 19, 2010
It’s really irritating to …

Source: Youth.Gov.Au
On 27 June 2010 the Minister for Youth, Kate Ellis, announced new Australian Government initiatives to promote positive body image among young Australians.
The new initiatives aim to build young people’s resilience to …

Source: The Nation
June 21, 2010
Daniel Redman
Over the phone, Krystal has a calm and lilting Southern accent. She identifies as a woman now, but when she entered Louisiana’s juvenile justice system at 12 years …

Source: Al-Jazeera
Monday, July 12th 2010
By Amie Williams
“Stop that car! That one over there!” It is the day before the opening of the World Cup and I am standing at an intersection in …

28 June 2010
Source: allafrica.com
In its determined bid to effectively address the sprawling problems of youth development and empowerment, the FCT Administration has concluded plans to create a Youth Empowerment Department in the Social Development Secretariat.
The …

28 June 2010
Source: allafrica.com
Kigali — President Paul Kagame, yesterday, told the youth that they form the engine that the country can run on to achieve its development goals and build the country that the Rwandan …