This article was originally published by Women's Economic Imperative (WEI), a W4 partner, & is republished here courtesy of WEI. Find out more about the work of WEI.     Gender inequality is one of the[...]

  WEC-Congo was selected as a winner, in 2018, of a joint W4-Girls Not Brides call for innovative, high-impact projects to end child marriage in local communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.   W4 sat down with the WEC-Congo team to[...]

  Rachael Tengbom, Founder of Voices of Hope, speaks with W4's editorial team about her visionary work to provide Maasai girls and women with life-changing educational opportunities.    Please tell us about your experience working[...]

  #InHerOwnWords                   My name is Gloire Amuli Masheka. I’m 20 years old and I’m the younger of two daughters in our family.   MY BACKGROUND   One morning in 2014, while I was on holiday at[...]

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of over 800 civil society organizations around the world, all committed to ending child marriage. We share the conviction that every girl has the right to lead the life that she chooses and that, by[...]

The need to create a mobile app struck me as obvious because everyone has a mobile phone. The best way to combat violence, therefore, was to get inside the phones. Digital technology wasn’t really my thing, but I used it to reach the maximum[...]

  W4 is proud to feature an interview with Jocelyne Sacerdoce, Founder of “Girls’ Rights Defenders”. Jocelyne is an extraordinary woman who fights daily to empower and give voice to survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic[...]

        The start of a new year inspires us to make resolutions for change and self-improvement, for doing things differently, achieving our goals and fulfilling our ambitions. Many of us will, inevitably, let some of these[...]

       W4 interviewed Leena Kejriwal, the artist behind Missing, a powerful art project that is engaging the public and raising awareness about the millions of young girls and women who are lost to sex trafficking and go missing in[...]

        What if… is a powerful thought. In everyday life, we use it to create change, improvement, a better future. And the power of ‘what if’ has increasing resonance around the globe. This week, for example, the UN[...]