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Chhavi Rajawat: The Changing Face of Rural India
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
“Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice” Chhavi Rajawat, the young woman Sarpanch, of Soda Village in the northern state of Rajasthan whom I met at the India Future Day in Mumbai on 5th March, made […]
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Sierra Leone Women To Boycott Polls Unless Given Right To Own Land
Written by ArriannaMarie
When the Future Challenges Team put out a call for local views on International Women’s Day, I thought long and hard. The first issues that came to mind were African women’s access to land, food security and poverty reduction- all related, especially within the contexts of governance and development. My […]
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A Woman’s Work is Never Done
Written by Juliana Rincon
As a Latin American woman immigrating to the USA, accepting new gender norms has not been as liberating as I though it would be.
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Help Wanted. Future Challenges Reader Volume 3
Written by Mario Wiedemann
The third in a series of Future Challenges Readers is published! “Help Wanted” covers the topic of unemployment, a plague sickening many of the world’s largest economies. The subject requires us to think about demographic change (Who should be working? For how long?), education (How do we train a workforce that […]
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The Challenge of Aging – Interview with Aubrey de Grey
Written by Manouchehr Shamsrizi
Aubrey de Grey is one of the world’s foremost voices on bio-gerontology. He may also be the only gerontologist whose work MIT would pay to see proven wrong; the university’s Technology Review has offered a prize to anyone who disproves his theories. Dr. de Grey was a scientist at Cambridge […]
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Contemporary Carlowitz Summit: Interview with Klaus Töpfer
Written by Manouchehr Shamsrizi
At the Contemporary Carlowitz Summit, hosted by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the German Council for Sustainable Development, Future Challenges spoke with Klaus Töpfer (Interview in German). Töpfer is the former German Minister for the Environment and a former Executive Director of the UNEP. In our conversation, we discovered that he […]
