Category: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Thoughts about women and gender equality

Last month we marked 100 years of International women’s day and the question everyone wanted an answer to and still does I suppose is, “How have things changed for women in that time?” For my part I have written several blog posts on the issue of women and gender equality to celebrate that milestone. This […]

Business and Migration: From Risk to Opportunity

Mar 10 – IBLF’s latest research highlights the huge opportunities in managing the global migration of labour and the essential role that business can play in raising labours standards for migrant workers.

Women entrepreneurs in the fight against poverty

The UK’s Department for International Development’s Africa Division has just launched its “Gender Equality Action Plan“, in which it says “DFID has long recognised that poverty will not come to an end until women have equal rights with men, and that promoting gender equality is an essential part of poverty reduction across the developing world”. […]

Canada: Conflicted On Volunteering?

Having won the Oval Office, the Obama volunteer revolution is just picking up speed. Due to financial constraints, Corporate America intends to grow their volunteer efforts by a whopping 45%. From Washington DC to Mumbai; London to Dubai, volunteer activity is on the rise. Communities endorse it. Companies infuse it. Governments champion it….Except Canada. With […]

Fighting poverty by empowering women

It is widely recognised in the development community that it is women who suffer most the burden of poverty, and that it is women who offer the best route out poverty. Grameen, perhaps the best-known advocate and pioneer, uses micro loans, financial services and technology, to help the poor, mostly women, to start self-sustaining businesses […]