Exercise can be good particularly in times of crises on April 7, 2020Public parks have been gated shut, beaches emptied and stadia deserted, as an unprecedented 2.5 billion people across the world are told to sit at home. Times are tough. The Coronavirus is real and as it spreads its tentacles across the globe it is taking its toll on the lives and livelihoods of people everywhere. […]
Commonwealth sounds alarm to waken world from sleep-walking into another debt crisis on October 18, 2019Trade wars, protectionism, and nationalist rhetoric are combining to weave the possibility of a nightmare debt crisis that could be worse than any previously experienced. Global borrowing is now at the highest levels since the 1950s – and history suggests we should take this as a warning that a debt crisis could be looming. Were […]
Gender equality has never been so close but still far from being a reality on September 19, 2019This month the Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting will assemble in Nairobi, Kenya. It has taken place regularly since 1985, to take stock of the current status of gender equality in our member countries, and to share perspectives and experience of how progress on this important Commonwealth priority can be achieved more swiftly. Recommendations and […]
Women’s empowerment benefits everyone on April 3, 2019Enala Ngulu was married to a man of 47 who had two other wives. She was 13-years-old. At a time when she should have been in school, learning about the world, she was forced to grapple with adult responsibilities like marriage and childbearing. At 15, Enala gave birth to her first child and subsequently had […]