Day 4 of the 2015 Advice Project Summit (The “Women Problem”)
The jungle isn’t a quiet place. Although all of our 2015 Advice Project Summit fellows were safely tucked into our beds last night, our...
Day 3 of the 2015 Advice Project Summit (Welcome to the Jungle)
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: Introduction to Rainforest Issues: Gold Mining, Sex Trafficking, Sacred Trees and Conservation, and “The Advice...
Day 2 of the 2015 Advice Project Summit in Peru
WELCOME TO PERU This morning many of our summit fellows met in person for the first time. As most of the group relaxed at the hostel or...
Day 1 of the 2015 Advice Project Summit in Peru
TRAVEL AND PRIVILEGE Today the twelve fellows of the 2015 Advice Project Global Leadership and Empowerment Summit arrived in Lima. Peru...
Day 7 of the 2015 Advice Project Summit (Fishing for Piranhas)
This morning we had a workshop to discuss whether feminism concerns only girls and women (the short answer was a resounding “no”), and we...
Filmmaker Courtney Webster Joins Advice Project Media
Advice Project Media is pleased to announce that filmmaker Courtney Webster will be joining us this summer at our 2015 Global Leadership...
Victim-Blaming of Teen Rape Survivors in Cameroon
In 1993, the United Nations general assembly defined violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that causes physical or...
What is now proved was once only imagined
The majority of published authors are men. Guardian books editor Claire Armitstead suggests that this is partly due to a lack of...
Instruments of change, not tools of war
For 23 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) terrorized Northern Uganda with physical and psychological torture. Under the leadership...
From geek to superhero
Before the early 1960s, Emirati women were given very few opportunities to work outside of the home. Since then, the commercial...
