Empowerment

كانت المرأة ومازالت تشارك في صنع ثورات التغيير، لم تقيّدها العادات والتقاليد ولم يكن الحجاب أو عدمه حاجزا لها. فالمرأة العربية أصبحت في الخط الأول في مظاهرات التغيير على أرض الواقع، وعلى مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي تدعم هذه الثورات ليس فقط بالكتابة بل بتغطية الأحداث و نشرها على نطاق أوسع

Fawzia Koofi is an Afghan women's rights activist and MP. She has already declared that she will run for president in 2014. In this interview with Martin Gerner, she outlines the two policy areas closest to her heart and explains why some Afghans view the timeline for the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan with trepidation.

While in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa’s children enrolled in primary schools, with girl’s enrolment increasing from 54 percent to 74 percent, a large majority of girls – 16 million – are still being denied access to education.

T­he world is encouraged as Malala Yousafzai continues her fight since being shot in the head by the Taliban simply because she wanted to go to school. This weekend when she stood up for the first time since being laid low by the dreadful attack, the world witnessed her standing up for 32 million girls around the world who are denied daily their right to go to a classroom and learn.