In response to the campaign successfully led by Journalist Caroline Criado-Perez to change the rules on including famous women of heritage on bank notes, the Bank of England announced on Wednesday 24th of July 2013 that Jane Austen, an 18th century writ... read more
Child marriage is back on the spotlight as a major issue of debate after the Nigerian Senate San Ahmed Yerima failed to amend a constitutional citizenship law which some have argued would allow children under the age of 18 to get married. This has spar... read more
December 2013 We were fortunate to attend the TEDx event #unlabelled in Covent Garden on 7th December 2013, a conference held in tandem with the San Francisco annual Women’s conference, whose theme was confronting and thereby deconstructing som... read more
#BringBackOurGirls On April 15th 2014 over 273 girls aged 16-18 were abducted from their school in Chibok Borno (north east) Nigeria as they prepared to sit their final exams, when an armed group broke into their school dressed in Nigerian military unifo... read more