W-Women Globally

Annie Lennox awarded the 2009 “Woman of Peace” award at the summit of Nobel Laureates (1)

11/16/09 •

Shareby Yahoo.com
Scottish singer Annie Lennox has been presented with the 2009 “Woman of Peace” award at a summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Berlin for her work raising awareness of HIV/AIDS.
Lennox was chosen on Wednesday for her work in raising awareness of the impact on women and children, especially in South Africa, with her SING [...]

Twitter (female)activists we all should be following – by Huffington Post. And who is on your list? (3)

11/16/09 •

ShareToday, Huffington Post features a list of top 11 activists on twitter who are worth following.
I concentrated on women on this list…

Amanda Rose’s Twestival has raised over half a million dollars for various causes over the last two years. The next Twestival, in March 2010, will raise money for educational causes, with a focus on [...]

Benja Stig Fagerland, CEO, TalentTuning™: ‘Shall women save the world’s economy?’ (0)

11/15/09 •

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By Benja Stig Fagerland, CEO TalentTuning™ and Co-founder House of Womenomics™
The mother of modern womenomics!
For Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
The financial crisis has spoken, and has shown that the number of women in corporate management has an important effect on share prices.
Therefore, the financial crisis leads to a cultural revolution that now favors female leaders, [...]

‘Precious’ -the movie by Lee Daniels based on the novel by Sapphire is ‘for precious girls everywhere’ (1)

11/12/09 •

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The film ‘Precious’ made by Lee Daniels, the director of ‘Monster Ball’ on the basis of the novel ‘Push’ written by Sapphire is out now in US cinemas. The film starring among others Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz won the all 3 awards on the Sundace Film Festival, including the award for the Best [...]

Ria Vanden Eynde – Painting Two Cancers (3)

11/09/09 •

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Ria Vanden Eynde is a fighter.
She is surviving two cancers, thyroid and breast, diagnosed about nine months apart. A Belgian, inspired by Frida Kahlo and other artists, she express her experience, her scars, her emotions and thoughts in the language of painting….(among others on her website)
Since when have you been painting?
Ria Vanden Eynde: I started [...]

Japan’s First Western Geisha? – article by Marie Claire.com (2)

11/08/09 •

ShareThis article from Marie Claire gained my attention: Meet Japan’s First Western Geisha by Abigail Haworth
. Must be a joke!? No, not really…
Fragments:
She’s got a Ph.D. from Oxford, but Fiona Graham spent a year learning how to pour tea. Oh, and she has to greet her senior geisha sisters on bended knee. In a Marie [...]

‘Save Girl Child’ campaign – stoping the homicide of unborn girls in India (4)

10/29/09 •

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Today I came across an article at the site trak.in about a fashion show by designer Sanjana John in India, made for the ‘Save Girl Child’ campaign. Fragments are below:
Wearing collections of Sanjana John, the Bollywood fraternity walked the ramp for ‘Save Girl Child’ campaign during the ongoing Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WLIFW).
Collections of [...]

Pieces of Her Soul – An In-Depth Interview with Dody Williams (1)

10/29/09 •

Sharewritten by krrobi, published at skirt.com
{And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.}

—Sylvia Plath
One of my favorite things to do is explore the web for attention-grabbing women’s sites, especially if [...]

‘Bead For Life’ – a bridge from US to Uganda – documentary by teletrendstv.com (1)

10/25/09 •

Sharewritten by Vicky Collins, published originally at teletrendstv.com

Achan Grace
Achan Grace crosses the threshold of the home she built with her own hands.
She falls to her knees and wails.
Moments later she ululates and dances with joy.
Three years ago this mother of five feared she would die from sickness and starvation, leaving her children with nothing. [...]