The positive gains of teaching girls to code in Afghanistan By Elizabeth Rector
Elizabeth Rector is The Womanity Foundation program leader for Girls Can Code in Afghanistan, teaching high school students to code. The project, implemented in two of Kabul’s biggest girls schools, launches in April 2016. For most of my business career, my aspirations have shifted between growing and transforming businesses as a commercial leader and making […]
How can tech put sexual assault survivors back in control
As part of our ICTforWomanity interviews, we talked to Jessica Ladd, founder of Callisto. A victim of sexual assault herself, Jessica Ladd says it’s time to change the outdated response to rape and assault – especially on college campuses – where most survivors do not even report the event. With better systems for capturing this […]
Yann Borgstedt: Speaker and Judge at MIT Start-up Forum Conference in Saudi
Yann Borgstedt, Founder of Womanity, was speaker and judge at the conference Time to Invest in Arab Youth and Their Innovations, organised by MIT Technology Review Arab Edition and the MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab, that took place on April 14th 2016 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The conference was centred on the opportunities […]
A life after gender violence: how you can "stand tall"
As part of our ICTforWomanity interviews, we talked to Esther Marshall, founder of sTandTall, an initiative that helps women and girls who have been abused or bullied get back on their feet. When Esther Marshall was younger, she thought she had found someone who loved her. “Sometimes he did seem to love me. But at […]
Yann Borgstedt: Winner of the BORN Awards 2016
Yann Borgstedt, Founder of Womanity, was awarded the Social Impact Prize at BORN Awards 2016. “You have to have the humility to hire people who are smarter than you – says Yann Borgstedt, entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder of The Womanity Foundation, born in Switzerland. A successful businessman and entrepreneur, Borgstedt wanted to share his good fortune […]
What Online Harassers Really Want – Q&A with Nighat Dad of Digital Rights Foundation
Nighat Dad, Executive Director of Digital Rights Foundation based in Pakistan, answers our questions about online harassment, a growing form of violence against women. Nighat defines herself as a lawyer and activist, someone who fights harassment, sexism, misogyny, and gender inequality everyday. Womanity: What does the Digital Rights Foundation do? Nighat Dad: We promote awareness of civil liberties, we advocate for […]
Program H: 6 Key Take-Aways from Learning Visits with Promundo Brazil
What does it take for men and boys to reflect about manhood? In the past decades, many women’s rights advocates have learnt that improving the health and wellbeing of adult and young women also requires engaging men, adult and young. Program H is an evidence-based project that started in 2001 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. […]
In conversation with Yann Borgstedt, Founder of Womanity Foundation
Meet Womanity founder Yann Borgstedt, and find out why he set up Womanity to address the needs of women and girls around the world, and the impact that the foundation is having.
TIME's "The Secret War Crime" Highlights Promundo's Living Peace Initiative as Part of the Effort to Prevent Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
This week, Womanity Award winners Promundo shared they were “humbled to be mentioned in TIME’s cover story “The Secret War Crime”, written by Aryn Baker. Against a background of horrific and widespread sexual violence in conflict, Baker narrates the stories of victims and survivors of this violence – and of those who are working for […]
If she can see it, she can (more likely) be it
Article from Thompson Reuters Foundation by Antonella Notari Vischer. Girls attend a class at their school in a village outside Yemen’s capital Sanaa February 2, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah. A girl’s emancipation starts with being able – and permitted – to envision a strong, meaningful role for herself in society. If she can confidently base her professional, social […]