W4 interviews Rachel Lloyd, Founder and CEO of GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Services), a US-based organization aimed at empowering girls and young women, ages 12 to 24, who have been commercially sexually exploited and[...]

W4 spotlights the inspiring work of Shining Hope for Communities, which helps create healthier, brighter futures for the inhabitants of Kibera, one of Africa’s largest urban slums, through the empowerment of girls and women.  [...]

Ponder this: more than 100 million people could be lifted out of poverty if rural women had the same access to productive resources as men.   This is only one of the potential benefits of investing in rural women highlighted by U.N.[...]

W4 welcomes guest contributor, Tithe Farhana! Farhana is from Bangladesh where she is working as Communications Coordinator for Plan Bangladesh and Co-Manager of the women's rights advocacy group, Bangladeshi Women's Voice, while also pursuing[...]

Born and raised in Mexico, Sabrina Meder studied at the Lycée Français of Mexico and went on to pursue an undergraduate degree in modern French literature in Paris, France.   Passionate about literature and the arts, Meder took an[...]

  You left your corporate job as an investment banker in order to pursue a career in research and advocacy for the contemporary abolitionist movement. What prompted you to make such a change and to dedicate your career to understanding and[...]

On International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, W4 remembers the millions of people who have been exploited as slaves throughout the centuries and reiterates the importance of educating future[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web is honored to feature the work of anthropologist and oral historian, Rosemary Sayigh, who helps to give voice to Palestinian women and illuminate their essential role both in supporting their families and in rewriting the[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web interviews Valentina Monti, director and producer of “Girls on the Air” (2009), an eye-opening documentary portraying the story of Humaira Habib, founder of the first independent radio station, Radio Sahar, in[...]

Few foreigners who travel to Thailand are familiar with the town of Mae Sot. Lying along the northwestern border with Burma, Mae Sot appears to have none of the excitement and appeal of Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Yet for those fleeing conflict and[...]