Celebrate International Women’s Day by attending Elevate Her: Empower, Inspire, Achieve with the International Rescue Committee and Operation Smile on March 7!
Globally, countries lose trillions of dollars in wealth due to inequality experienced by marginalized groups. Exclusionary policies and beliefs not only lead to missed opportunities, but also perpetuate injustices for millions of underserved people. By focusing efforts on reconciling this, we can empower voices that were left behind, creating a more diverse and innovative workforce. Everyone benefits from the creation of new market opportunities, demand for goods and services, and economic expansion. This in turn generates resilience in the face of other challenges like climate change, and improves quality of life, reducing poverty internationally. Inclusive development can be complex to...
In Senegal, women were largely excluded from politics until recently. A collective of women activists that AJWS supports, Association des Juristes Sénégalaises (AJS), has worked to change this — and is shifting Senegal’s entire political landscape in the process.