Learning Lessons, Improving Impact – Annual Report 2014
Learning Lessons, Improving Impact – Annual Report 2014 2014 proved a pivotal year in Womanity’s work empowering women and girls around the world. The launch of the world’s first award for innovators tackling violence against women, additional WomenChangeMakers Fellows, a pioneering Arabic radio fiction taking the Middle East by storm and more girls than expected […]
Womanity In New York City
To celebrate its 10th anniversary the Womanity Foundation brought together a community of friends, partners and potential partners in New York City. On 15th June, Womanity hosted an evening reception at Le Cirque, East 58th Street, New York to both celebrate 10 years of the foundation and to stimulate a debate with the panel discussion […]
Changing the conversation without changing the channel
News channels are bringing us bleak stories. From terrorism to train derailments, from earthquakes to economic downturns, we have come to associate television, radio, print and social media with messengers of bad news. Moreover, movies, TV series, virtual games and social media are too often assaulting us with violence or numbing us with platitudes. But […]
When a man loves a woman
One in three women will experience violence in her lifetime. So much time, talent, and effort have been committed to changing this terrible statistic, to recognizing the life and humanity in each one of those women. Sustainable change is dependent on reshaping our global culture in a way that teaches men individually to respect women […]
It's All in the Connections: Changing the World With Women One Call at a Time
By Yann Borgstedt and Antonella Notari Vischer As published on Huffington Post 04/24/2015 (www.huffingtonpost.com/yann-borgstedt/its-all-in-the-connection_b_7135054.html?1429879201) Men and women need to join forces on a mission to connect women to the world. For decades we have heard about gender disparities in every field from economics to education, politics to media. Now we have new evidence of a […]
How we made it into the Top 500 NGOs
The WomanityFoundation enters the 2015 Top 500 NGOs ranking. Yann Borgstedt, founder andchairman, tells us what he believes makes for a stellar social developmentorganisation. “In January 2015, Womanity entered the Top 500 NGOs as devised by Global_Geneva. The ranking identifies social development and humanitarian non-governmental non-profit organisations (NGOs), who excel in innovation, impact and sustainability. The search for […]
Aya Mostafa, a woman “worth 100 men” , with a story to tell.
Not every day does one meet a woman you can call “worth 100 men”, a woman who has courageously refuted society’s expectations and stereotypes in order to realize her personal passions, dreams and goals. And when you do, her story is well worth sharing and admiring. Aya Mostafa is one of these women. In a […]
Womanity Award Launch
The Womanity Foundation hosted a debate on the role of men and boys in ending gender-based violence On the occasion of the presentation of the Womanity Award 2014, on May 20, The Womanity Foundation brought together its laureates and luminaries working to prevent violence against women to explore the challenges and opportunities in preventing gender-based violence. The conversation […]
“Be 100 Ragl” (Worth 100 Men) – Arabic radio fiction series sparks discussions on women’s role in society
By Noora Sharrab, Social Media Coordinator, “Be 100 Ragl”, and Antonella Notari Vischer, Executive Director, The Womanity Foundation Harnessing the power of fiction to talk about social change In Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan, thousands of listeners daily tune in to their radios these days to follow the story of Noha, a young female radio […]
Lunch event on the new man: a feminist?
The Womanity Foundation, Giving Women and JP Morgan host a lunch conversation with Dr Gary Barker on the role of men and boys in ending gender-based violence “From economic empowerment for women to violence prevention, the evidence consistently affirms that engaging men as partners in gender equality is more effective than only tapping women. And […]