Dr Tererai Trent Honoured Among The World’s Top 10 Most Inspiring Women ‘Sculpted for Equal Rights’

Zimbabwe-born academic Dr Tererai Trent, who is based in the United States, has been named among the World’s Top 10 Most Inspiring Women “Sculpted for Equal Rights” and will have her life-size bronze statue erected at the Rockefeller Centre in New York City on August 26 during the launch of Statues of Equality. The sculpture […]
Self-Help Guru Keith Raniere Took Advantage Of Young Girls And Women

Raniere, 58 and then exercising total dominion over them – forcing them to have sex with him, restricting their diets and branding them with his initials Former self-help guru Keith Raniere was a “predator” who preyed on young women, including a 15-year-old girl, and turned them into sex slaves as part of a cultlike organization, […]
Freezing New York Welcomes 2018 With Tightest Security

Some two million people braved New York’s coldest New Year weather for a century to welcome 2018 in Times Square, with police enforcing intensely strict security. Residents and tourists faced the worst New Year freeze since 1917, with temperatures of nine degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12.7 Celsius). After two attacks in the city inspired by the […]
LOUD WHISPERS: John’s Café

There is a very busy diner in New York on 2nd Avenue known as John’s Café. I started visiting John’s in the 1990s when my late older friend Joana Foster, who passed away recently, introduced me to the place. John’s is very close to the United Nations, so this means whenever I attend the annual […]
CSW60:’Prejudice that women are not capable of dealing with security matters; that is completely untrue’ – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Thank you very much for your leadership for gender equality and gender empowerment. Welcome to the United Nations. It is a great pleasure for me to be here today with so many distinguished women leaders from all around the world. I feel truly inspired. You empower me and I am energized by your energy and […]
Man, 65, who posed with his 12-YEAR-OLD ‘bride’ for photos Times Square is met with fury from onlookers who try to drag the girl away from him in social experiment clip

Sometimes in order to understand the reality of an awful global issue, people need to be able to see it happening right in front of them. So in order to raise awareness about the global issue of arranged child marriages, 21-year-old YouTube star Coby Persin decided to push the envelope by asking a 12-year-old ‘bride’ […]