Here at Global Sistergoods, we are lucky to to have Irene Tinker as an advisor and mentor. Irene is a true women & development trailblazer, a scholar/activist who has written extensively and founded the International Center for Research on Women, among her many accomplishments. She also has hilarious stories. (If you ever meet her, ask [...]

Africa’s first democratically elected woman president (hard to believe it took this long! oh wait, we are still waiting for our first woman president..ahem…), Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is so stinking cool. (Okay, if you aren’t a neoliberalist, just bear with me. The lady is coping with some serious post-conflict issues.) Last year, Global Sistergoods hosted a [...]

So, the president of Afghanistan–after international outcry including a personal talking to from Hillary Clinton—backed down after signing a new family law, which was intended to give the Shia minority their own identity. The law, you’ve probably heard by now, had the potential to strip women of basic (and hard-won) rights, such as leaving the [...]