International Women’s Day 2022

International Women’s Day 2022 Of course this is just one of 365/366 days where we concern ourselves with challenging inequality. This year’s campaign theme— #BreaktheBias —spotlights the individual and collective biases against women that fuel gender inequality. “Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead,” the International Women’s Day website reads. Imagine

International decade of indigenous languages

On December 18, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed an International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) as a follow up to the International Year of Indigenous Languages (2019). My experience working in places such as Chad, Timor Leste, Viet Nam, and the Republic of Tanzania has provided the evidence for understanding that home language/mother

COP26 – indigenous voices

We will hear plenty of political ‘promises’ about saving the planet during COP26 -what we may not hear so much is from groups of indigenous people who have been part responsible for understanding about and caring for the Earth for millennia. Many have had to adapt to more marginalised land as they have been pushed

International Women’s Day 2021

‘They hold up half the world’ During the pandemic there is plenty of evidence that women and girls have been holding up more than half as they have taken on more responsibilities at home, more employment loss as they are likely to be in informal employment, while being subjected to more domestic violence and online