Month: September 2019

UN Women Executive Director urges G7 leaders to commit to gender equality and join the Biarritz Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

At the G7 Summit in France on 25 August, UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, together with Nobel Prize Laureates Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege, presented the report of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council to G7 leaders in Biarritz. The Council report urges leaders to commit to overturn the discriminatory laws that continue to hold women back, and to enact legal reforms that accelerate progress for girls, women and gender equality. It also calls for adequate funding to carry out these reforms, including through strong accountability and governance mechanisms,…

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L’Oréal, UNESCO and ABC announce the seven winners of the “Para Mulheres na Ciência” Programme 2019

Stuart Mitchell

The Programme, which is in its 14th edition, acknowledges and encourages female participation in Brazilian science and awards $ 50,000 to each of the winners. Finding solutions to diseases that affect the production of oranges in Brazil, investigating why stars stop being produced in some galaxies and encouraging the marketing of food plants are some of the winning works in the Program edition of this year. The Para Mulheres na Ciência (For Women in Science) Programme is dedicated to young Brazilian scientists and it is developed by L’Oréal Brasil in partnership…

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Stunning photoshoot of supermodel Stella Tennant and her teenage daughter to promote second-hand fashion

Stuart Mitchell

Supermodel Stella Tennant and her teenage daughter Iris, 14, model Oxfam clothes in a gorgeous photoshoot to protest against the harm fast fashion does to people and planet. The mother and daughter are supporting Oxfam’s  #SecondHandSeptember campaign which asks the nation to pledge to buy second-hand fashion instead of new for 30 days.  All the clothes in the shoot are from the Oxfam Online Shop. The textile industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than the shipping and aviation industries combined. To keep prices low, throwaway fashion is made by garment…

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New research shows charity staff highly skilled but questions raised over diversity

Stuart Mitchell

Charities are employing highly qualified staff but this may be at the cost of excluding people who face greater barriers to education and experience, new NCVO research suggests. Over half the voluntary sector workforce (51%) is educated to degree level, researchers found, while over 70% of voluntary organisations put ‘critical’ or ‘significant’ value on applicants having relevant work experience. As many as 43% of voluntary sector employers say their staff have skills and qualifications that are more advanced than required for their current role, higher than in the public sector…

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The search is on for the UK’s best neighbour and community champion

Stuart Mitchell

Co-op Insurance and Neighbourhood Watch have officially opened up nominations for their Neighbour of the Year Award 2019, to find the UK’s best neighbours. Following on from the success of last year’s inaugural award, Co-op and Neighbourhood Watch are looking once again for people to nominate their neighbours who go above and beyond to help their neighbourhood and surrounding community, to find the UK’s Neighbour of the Year 2019. Additionally this year sees the introduction of a new category to crown someone the ‘2019 Community Spaces Champion’. The new award…

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