Headlines
  • Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy issues a warning that the Strait of Hormuz is "closed," citing five tankers that have been hit since Friday.
  • Four drones were intercepted and destroyed over the provinces of Riyadh, Eastern, and Southern, according to the coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
  • The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen claims to have intercepted three drones in the southern and Riyadh regions, two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, and a ballistic missile headed for the Saudi city of Yanbu. In the
  • Police and pritesters clashed during Saturday's large-scale protests across France over social injustice, exorbitant prices, and the condition of the educational system.
  • Just two days before the new sanctions and tariffs on Russia mandated by the law named for the late Senator Lindsey Graham were scheduled to go into effect, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday waiving them.
  • On Saturday afternoon, a car drove through a soccer match in Wichita, Kansas, killing a child and an adult and injuring numerous others.

Tag: Women Empowernment

January 6, 2019

Nonprofit Provides Haven for Women Fleeing...

Becca Stevens has dedicated her life to helping women escape prostitution, addiction and trafficking.

December 22, 2018

Saudi Prince’s Reform: Car Race, Concerts,...

For 22-year-old Maram Ali, who normally wears a headscarf in public, the race was a rare chance to literally let her hair down. Like many women at the event, she kept the required loose-fitting robe, known as an abaya, on but walked around without a head-covering

December 19, 2018

United Nations Human Rights Award

Gyumi from Tanzania, an activist for education rights for girls; the late human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir from Pakistan; Joênia Wapichana, Brazil’s first indigenous woman lawyer; and Front Line Defenders from Ireland, working to protect human rights defenders at risk

December 17, 2018

Guinea Bissau Women Entrepreneurs Share Ideas,...

Guinea Bissau Women Entrepreneurs are trying to develop their businesses with new ideas and innovatiins

December 10, 2018

Female Entrepreneurs Use Internet to Build...

In Pakistan there is a growing demand for natural remedies for everyday problems leading some entrepreneurs to starting their own herbal product businesses

November 15, 2018

Find the MaSisulu in You

South African government has called for nominations for the Women of Fortitude campaign. The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on the Nelson Mandela Centenary and Centenary of Albertina Sisulu announced the #WomenofFortitude campaign on 11 October 2018, which was formed as one of the MaSisulu Centenary activities. The campaign seeks to encourage the current generation of young …

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