‘Tearing down the walls of silence, shame & stigma can empower women as pillars of the community’ – Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict on the Annual Summit of Women in Parliament Global Forum. As a Polish national who lived in […]

In my second year at university, I volunteered to help at the 2010 Special Olympic Games in Warsaw (Poland), the largest sporting competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities. Unfortunately, the Special Olympics are held in the  shadow of the more famous Paralympic Games which come immediately after the Olympics. Nevertheless […]

The Norwegian Oil Fund reinvests state revenues from the country’s petroleum sector to preserve today’s wealth for future generations. This system brings together growth and sustainability – but does it in reality? Norway is known as one of the richest countries in the world. Its fortune is based on its […]

Inclusive growth is a concept created to counterbalance the shortcomings of the pure market economy. As much as any other concept that pursues the same aim, its foundations rest on principles that are not always clearly expressed, sometimes for electoral reasons, sometimes out of ignorance. In the case of inclusive […]

On September 27, some 70 employees of the French hardware store chain Leroy Merlin gathered in Créteil, a suburb of Paris, not to demand higher wages or shorter hours, but the right to work on Sunday. In a country that prides itself on its carefree lifestyle and boasts one of […]