Rural Energy Poverty – A threat to the environment and women
When we think about the term Energy Poverty, we picture households in the dark, without electricity. These households tend to be in the developing world,…
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03-07-2014The Gender Gap in the Digital Divide – Gender and ICT
Although from observations and anecdotal evidence, we have “known” of the existence of a gender gap in information and communication technology (ICT), there has been…
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17-06-2014Why save an Endangered Language?
Languages fascinate me. Not just the ones that are widely spoken like Spanish or Swahili, but more obscure ones that are spoken by few. Having…
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29-10-2013Gender in Development : A Case Study of Bangladesh
Headlines and reports would have us believe that women have reached gender parity in Bangladesh. The female under-five mortality rate is 20 per cent lower…
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12-05-2012Rigoberta Menchú and I
This is part biography, part book review and homage to one of the greatest human rights activists who remains largely unheard-of. Rigoberta Menchú is more…
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22-02-2012Modern Slavery in Contrast: Haiti and India
Slavery today There is an estimated 27 million people in the world who are being held in some form of slavery today. They are not…
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27-08-2011Without the right to have rights
If they were all together under one nation, they could populate a fairly big country, somewhere between Zimbabwe and Chile. They however are spread across…
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