women empowerment

Cervical cancer remains a major health crisis in Indonesia, where it stands as the second most common cancer after breast cancer. According to statistics from the Global Burden of Cancer Study (Globocan), Indonesia witnessed 36,633 new cases and 21,003 deaths in 2020 alone, translating to...

Microsoft’s Power Women Awards have increasingly become a defining initiative within the technology sector, shining a much-needed spotlight on the achievements, influence, and future promise of women leaders across multiple industries. In 2025, the announcement that Breda O’Callaghan of KPMG has...

In a significant milestone for gender equity in technology, Microsoft has announced Breda O’Callaghan, Managing Director at KPMG Ireland, as the recipient of the 2025 Microsoft Power Women Awards for Ireland. Now in its latest edition, this awards program illuminates the work of twenty...

International Women’s Day 2025 brought a vibrant, forward-thinking energy to the tech landscape as Microsoft UK, in partnership with LinkedIn, hosted an event with a powerful theme: Investing in Our Future – Enable, Empower, Elevate. This celebration reflected not only on the significant strides...

The lights of the television studio bathe the set in a familiar glow, a place both ordinary and enchanted, where fiction and reality blur with the flick of a director’s hand. For Pepa Aniorte, stepping onto that familiar ground to reprise old rhythms with a cherished co-star is not just another...

In Sambhal, a heartwarming blend of tradition and innovation is unfolding ahead of Holi. Rajender Pensiya, the District Magistrate, stepped out of his usual administrative role to champion a local initiative by joining forces with a women's Self-Help Group (SHG). Together, they promoted and sold...

Like a lot of people in their senior year of college, Alexa Carlin had a lot to look forward to. In January 2013, the South Florida native was set to graduate from the University of Florida in a few months, then start her dream job in New York that summer. She was also hours away from a party...

Growing up in a rural village in India, Ashwini Doddalingappanavar was expected to follow the example of the women before her: stay close, get married and have children. She defied her community’s expectations to forge her own path. She learned how to use a mobile phone and access online maps...

Link Removed, founded in 2009 by Franz Gastler, uses girls’ team sports as a platform for educational opportunities in rural India. Yuwa works with hundreds of girls in a disadvantaged region of Jharkhand, India – one of the poorest and least literate regions of India – to develop the skills...

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CHOICE Humanitarian is a non-profit organization with a vision to free the world from the ravages of extreme poverty, where all people are treated with dignity and valued for who they are and the unique contribution they bring. They have been working to eliminate extreme poverty, defined by the...

Saharsa, one of the poorest rural communities in Bihar, India has among the highest infant mortality rates in the country ‒ 42 per 1,000 live births. There has been a system for community health care worker home visitation and support in place, but digging through multiple written sources to...

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