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Young people aged 18 to 35 can apply for funded participation in the first-ever UN Youth Townhall in Heidelberg, Germany, where more than 1,000 participants are expected to meet across generations and sectors.
Young people aged 18 to 35 can apply for funded participation in the first-ever UN Youth Townhall in Heidelberg, Germany, where more than 1,000 participants are expected to meet across generations and sectors.
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Applications are now open for the World Bank Group’s flagship Young Professionals Program, offering early-career professionals a pathway into international development through paid employment, global rotations, leadership training and mentorship.
Women religious joined about 150 Catholic clergy in Rome to demand an end to the war in Gaza, carrying the names of 300 children killed in Gaza and southern Lebanon. Their presence widens the public voice of a church whose formal authority remains overwhelmingly male.
After the sold-out premiere of Ḵutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles, librettist Vera Starbard and performer Madeline Soboleff Levy brought the work to a national radio audience. The project shows how Indigenous women can use a major Western art form without surrendering language, historical authority or community accountability.
Nineteen-year-old Mariam Khatun spent months being discussed as a powerful MP’s “second wife” after private footage went viral. After her death and an ongoing abetment investigation, Bangladesh should examine a harder question: when a young woman is caught inside a relationship with a far more powerful man, who asks what she wants, whether she feels safe and whether she can speak freely
In a new interview, the jailed-and-released Nobel laureate links Iran’s internal repression to the human cost of regional conflict. Her warning matters because women-led resistance is being tested by both state violence and war.
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A seven-year Oxfam programme reports a major rise in rights awareness and wage-negotiation ability among women domestic workers. Yet written employment arrangements remain uncommon, showing the distance between knowing a right and being able to enforce it inside somebody else’s home.
City Bank and Oxfam have launched a climate-resilient water, sanitation and hygiene initiative for underserved tea-garden communities, with a specific focus on women and girls. The partnership is welcome; the real test will be safe water, usable toilets and menstrual dignity where women actually live and work
Police have arrested three people in connection with one of nine recent killings of women in Ekurhuleni. The development is significant, but investigators have not established that the deaths are linked—and public pressure must not outrun evidence.
Two months after a simple Facebook video triggered trolling, moral policing and calls for punishment, Beauty Rani Paul has been named Sylhet district’s best headteacher. Education officials say the selection was based on teaching, school management and work with students—not her social-media controversy.
Applications are now open for the World Bank Group’s flagship Young Professionals Program, offering early-career professionals a pathway into international development through paid employment, global rotations, leadership training and mentorship.
Trending nowYoung people aged 18 to 35 can apply for funded participation in the first-ever UN Youth Townhall in Heidelberg, Germany, where more than 1,000 participants are expected to meet across generations and sectors.
Trending nowEntrepreneurs from 44 eligible low- and middle-income Commonwealth countries have until September 1 to apply for the Commonwealth Startup Fellowship 2026, a six-month programme offering international training, tailored business support, fully funded travel and up to £2,000 in equity-free funding.
Trending nowAfter the sold-out premiere of Ḵutulagaaw: The Tlingit-Russian Battles, librettist Vera Starbard and performer Madeline Soboleff Levy brought the work to a national radio audience. The project shows how Indigenous women can use a major Western art form without surrendering language, historical authority or community accountability.
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