President stresses women empowerment

Poverty is day-to-day violence, no less destructive than war. If social balance is to be restored, we must remove it. Ela Bhatt writes.

Company : HSRC Press Email : jrwightman@hsrc.ac.za URL : www.hsrcpress.ac.za/ Images of striking COSATU workers, singing, marching and toyi-toying are a familiar sight for most South Africans and external observers of the country's politics.

The Elders met civil society groups, diplomats and members of the Irish government in Dublin last week to discuss the role of Europe in the Middle East, the prospects for young people in Northern Ireland and other issues relevant to their work. The ...

Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General and Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, has been appointed to take over from Archbishop Desmond Tutu as Chair of The Elders with immediate effect. The decision was unanimously reached by the Elders at ...

Your low profile in Dublin this week — during your biannual strategy session — stood in stark contrast to your vaulting ambition. You are probably the world's most eminent pensioners, 10 retired statesmen and women who aspire to be a fiercely ...

Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has deemed goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank should be treated as illegal.The Foreign Affairs Minister said Ireland would strongly support a European initiative to label exports from Israeli producers in the ...

The Tánaiste has said Ireland will push for an EU-wide move to label products produced in illegal Israeli settlements and will, if necessary, introduce a ban on the import of such goods. Eamon Gilmore was speaking after a meeting with a group of ...

Galerie Lelong will take part in Frieze New York, today, May 10 - 13, 2013 at Booth B13. For the second edition of Frieze New York, Galerie Lelong will feature activist artists from different generations, whose works share concerns of social ...

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, this was the first book by Rashmi Bansal that I read. The title was intriguing and when I read the blurb of the book, I was sure that it will be an interesting read and it didn't disappoint me at all. Ever since then, I ...