This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past three months, significant legal reforms on women’s rights have advanced in a handful of countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Last week, Lebanon’s Parliament finally…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The tech industry has serious issues with bias and sexism — this is not news. Our progress toward equality is slow and imperfect. But as the news cycle pivots from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mandela was released in February 1990 after spending 27 painful and cruel years behind prison bars and walls, primarily in solitude or in male-only environments. He rejoined a society scarred…
Half of the world’s poorest people have something in common: they’re small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, activist Andrew Youn shows how his group, One Acre Fund, is helping these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “If we don’t engage, we have only ourselves to blame,” says Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, Huerta argues that if new protest movements want to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Systems change is particularly hard when the same rules that protect the rights of people to focus on building an equitable society and fighting racism protect the rights of people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. John Adams once said, “facts are stubborn things.” If the Massachusetts founding father were alive today pondering the challenge of North Korea, he might have revised his famous quote to,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As images of armed militias and others waving and wearing swastikas made their way across the globe, many of my European friends and family messaged me to ask why the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend began and ended with the kind of racial violence that should be impossible for people of the United…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 1. Education is the best prevention strategy Bibiana Ferraiuoli, the executive director of the Ricky Martin Foundation, which works to combat human trafficking through education, says peer education in particular…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Impact investors are increasingly adopting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals as a guide to impact and opportunity. Yet little is known about which of the goals are getting the most…