Solar mamas light up their villages
They were simple women, mostly illiterate: after a brief training, they’ve changed the lives of people living in their community and become solar mamas, solar engineers.
8 women who are changing the world without you even realising
Nina Gualinga She has become the face of the indigenous Kichwa movement to protect the Ecuadorian Amazon from corporate interests. Her village, Sarayaku, sued the Quito Government in 2012, resulting in the protection of its land from oil exploration. Gualinga was present at COP21: she sailed down the River Seine in Paris in a canoe from
Ultracyclist Paola Gianotti talks about women. From the vantage point of pedalling around the world
Born in Ivrea, northern Italy, Paola Gianotti is a world citizen. This is the most suitable definition for this woman, who, after obtaining a degree in economics and working a few years in a communications company, dropped everything to travel around the world by bike. This was her dream and she managed to realise it:
A photo of baby Leonardo DiCaprio got people talking about women’s armpit hair
Who would have thought that we would be talking about female armpit hair in relation to Leonardo DiCaprio. Sadly, this conversation is really happening. The Facebook page History in Pictures posted a photograph taken in 1976 to pay tribute to the great actor and climate advocate, who recently won the Oscar for Best Actor, which
Breastfeeding could save 800,000 children every year
Secondo uno studio pubblicato su The Lancet e finanziato anche dalla fondazione Bill e Melinda Gates, se tutte le mamme del mondo allattassero i loro figli ci sarebbero circa 800.000 morti in meno tra i bambini e 20.000 casi in meno di cancro tra le madri.
Thailand’s solar queen paves the way for photovoltaics in Southeast Asia
The photovoltaic revolution in Thailand was sparked by a woman, named the solar queen. And now the country is the Southeast leader in the field.
Berta Cáceres has been murdered. Who was the activist fighting for Honduran indigenous rights
L’omicidio della militante ecologista, leader della mobilitazione di una comunità indigena che ha bloccato la costruzione di una diga, è probabilmente legato alle sue battaglie ambientali.
Universal abolition of surrogacy: the movement launched in France
The French Parliament spent a day examining the issue of surrogacy. The result is a universal charter for the abolition of surrogate motherhood.
Clinton and Trump put their boxing gloves on after winning Super Tuesday
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have consolidated their lead in the contest to become the presidential candidates for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively. Twelve states plus American Samoa voted on the 1st of March, also known as Super Tuesday – the day in the US presidential primaries with the most delegates up for grabs.
Justice in Guatemala. Soldiers found guilty of sexual violence against indigenous women
The Guatemalan Supreme Court found defendants Colonel Esteelmer Reyes Girón and former Military Commissioner Heriberto Veldez Asig guilty. They were accused of sexual violence, and sexual and domestic slavery against indigenous Q’echís women from the Sepur Zarco community in eastern Guatemala during the civil war of the 1980s. They were sentenced to 120 and 240 years