Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have...

The one thing most people can agree on these days is that we need better answers to overcome the growing violence, discord, misunderstandings and divisions i...

I recently returned from a remarkable two week fact finding citizen diplomacy trip to Russia with a delegation of 30 professionals from around the US, organi...

CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, is a landmark international agreement that affirms principles of funda...

Human trafficking is a global problem that has grown into a multi-billion dollar a year industry. It enslaves people, primarily young women and men, into wha...

When Mejgon was 11 years old, her father sold her to a married 60-year-old Afghanistan man for two boxes of heroin. “In my whole life, I’ve never felt love,”...

The United Nations General Assembly just adopted new global goals that will galvanize and prioritize the key global issues of our day. Called Global Goals fo...

FGM, or Female Genital Mutilation is the practice, traditional in some cultures, of partially or totally removing the external genitalia of girls and young w...

Ubuntu is an African word that embodies so much of what we seek in society today. In the Xhosa and Zulu languages ubuntu means "people are people through oth...

So much has been said about the importance of developing our IQ, our rational intelligence, and more recently about EQ, our emotional intelligence. We now un...

“The great malady of the 20th century, implicated in all of our troubles and affecting us individually and socially, is 'loss of soul'. When soul is neglecte...

We are the first generation of women who have had careers for most of our lives. We are living lives that most of our parents and grandparents didn’t have a...

Most of us have been very concerned about the attacks on Arab Americans across the United States since the September 11 terrorist attacks by Osama bin Laden ...

International Women's Day is celebrated today, one of the United Nations' days designated to a global issue. Although not well-known, it seeks to highlight t...

Standing with twelve thousand women from every possible cultural, ethnic and religious group at the extraordinary United Nations Decade for Women conference ...

International Women’s Day is celebrated today, one of the United Nations’ days designated to a key global issue. Although not well known, it seeks to highlig...

We share the worldwide sense of dismay and outrage that the U.S. administration decided to abandon efforts to disarm Iraq by peaceful means through the Unite...