🌍 Our DBDLI presenter team have officially arrived in South Africa for the 2024 UBUNTU AFRICENTRIC CONFERENCE! We're incredibly excited to learn from this experience and share our journey of Africentricity and Ubuntu in a country deeply rooted in these values. 🇿🇦 We'll be

It was time for a change in NB. Congrats, Susan Holt! 👏🏽🎉 (1st woman premier of NB)

With Elon Musk taking on a central advisory role to Donald Trump’s administration after leveraging X and his personal fortune to boost Trump’s campaign, U.S. liberals and others disenchanted with the site are once again scurrying to friendlier pastures. wapo.st/3YLqLvr

All girls and women must be permitted to exercise their full human rights in a safe environment without fear of violence or persecution. Monday is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. unwomen.org/en/get-involve… — via UN Women #16days

The Taliban have banned women from studying at medical institutes in Afghanistan. Yesterday, female students bid tearful goodbyes to each other and their teachers. The ban doesn’t just close classroom doors; it shut downs a healthcare system for 20 million women.

A new Amnesty International report concludes that Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. By continuing to transfer arms to Israel, the US government is violating its obligation to prevent genocide and risks being complicit. Arms embargo

New life for Dimensions - University Affairs universityaffairs.ca/news/new-life-…

Silence is a powerful enabler of injustice. In the face of wrongdoing, it inadvertently allows harmful systems, behaviors, or ideologies to persist. This can stem from fear, indifference, or even complicity, but the result is often the same: oppression continues unchallenged‼️

“We need more research to understand why the work of Indigenization and reconciliation tends to be placed on women and is thereby quite gendered.” In the latest Bulletin, Candace Brunette-Debassige discusses Indigenization at Canadian universities: caut.ca/bulletin/2024/…

Average undergraduate tuition and additional compulsory fees for Canadian students have increased in all provinces compared to the 2023-24 academic year. See more data in the latest edition of the Bulletin’s By the Numbers: caut.ca/bulletin/2024/…

Art by Victoria Villasana #giselepelicot

On Friday's #SolidarityDay and every day, let's celebrate our unity in diversity, and the role of human solidarity in building lives of dignity and peace. un.org/en/observances…

✨ Gisèle Pelicot transformed her pain into purpose, and silence into strength. 🗣️ By breaking her silence about surviving sexual violence, she empowered millions and became the face of courage, dignity, and resilience. Her message? Shame must change sides. There is #NoExcuse.

Artwork by 13yr old Slovenian student Anja Rozen, chosen from 600,000 children around the world to create a piece of art to show what #peace looks like. “My drawing represents the land that binds us and unites us.”

International humanitarian law is clear: Babies are #NotATarget. Children are #NotATarget. Civilians are #NotATarget. Hospitals are #NotATarget. Health care workers are #NotATarget. Schools are #NotATarget. Humanitarians are #NotATarget.

“Women tend to delay presenting. They are likely to say, ‘I’ll fix the kids’ breakfast and then go to the hospital.’” – Dr. Padma Kaul’s research examines ways to improve diagnosis and treatment of heart disease to save more women. Read more: bit.ly/41IOsrh.

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Emma Halpern, the director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia, said “Domestic violence is an epidemic, so now what? It’s not enough to just name it." halifax.citynews.ca/2025/01/04/as-…

A message to Fox News host/commentator Jesse Watters: Your recent comments blaming Indigenous peoples for the Los Angeles wildfires represent a new low in broadcasting, even by Fox News standards. Your racist fabrication linking dam management for salmon protection to wildfire

The world needs peace and peace needs women. Women’s participation in peace processes is about: ✔️Creating solutions that reflect the needs of all people in conflict-affected settings. ✔️Dismantling systems that permit and promote violence. #WomenPeaceSecurity