Overcoming COVID-19 will require tackling inequality
Leaders at this year’s World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings will determine how best to recover from one of the biggest crises the institutions have faced since their founding in 1944 – COVID-19...
More than 30 years of experience in political leadership, diplomacy and humanitarian engagement. Recognized expert on women's rights. Formerly: Executive Director, Oxfam International; Director of Gender and Development at the United Nations Development Programme and the African Union Commission; 10 years as Member of Ugandan Parliament. Founder, Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), which champions women's equal participation in decision-making in Uganda. Currently, UNAIDS Executive Director and Undersecretary-General of the United Nations.
Leaders at this year’s World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings will determine how best to recover from one of the biggest crises the institutions have faced since their founding in 1944 – COVID-19...
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa surpasses 500,000, the new coronavirus is at the forefront of the public consciousness. But the continent was beset by infectious disea...
Hope. Now there’s a word you don’t hear enough about the global fight against inequality.
Africa is ready to rise. This is what we will keep repeating as Africa’s government and business leaders meet in Cape Town this week at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Africa Meeting.
The truth isn’t always easy. When good journalists in February 2018 exposed the appalling behaviour – let’s call it what it is: sexual abuse – by some Oxfam employees in Haiti in 2011, an...
Cet article fait partie de la Réunion Annuelle du Forum Économique Mondial
Cada enero vislumbro un mundo diferente. Un mundo de multimillonarios, de élites empresariales y políticas, que se unen en el centro turístico suizo de Davos para la Reunión Anual del For...
Every January I get a glimpse into a different world. A world of billionaires, of business and political elites, coming together in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos for the Annual Meeti...
Imagine un mundo en el que se respeten los derechos de las mujeres y las niñas, el cambio climático reciba la atención que requiere con tanta urgencia y se haya eliminado la pobreza. Nunc...
Imagine a world in which women and girls have their rights respected, climate change receives the attention it so urgently requires, and poverty has been eliminated. Never before have we ...
La chaîne alimentaire mondiale est une merveille moderne.
La cadena alimentaria mundial es una maravilla moderna.
The global food chain is a modern marvel.
These are restless, exciting and frightening times to be a woman. Every day brings a rousing success or a crushing setback in our fight for equal rights.
Here’s something we’re rarely told growing up: our world rewards wealth, not hard work or talent.