For my last No Time For Fear column of 2017, I decided to end on a somewhat happier note, even though we all know there are heaps of not-so-positive things happening all over the world, at this very moment, concerning girls and politics. Think of this column as a call...
With the recent wave of sexual harassment stories coming to light in all spheres of life all over the world, I thought I would take this week’s column to discuss a subset of that, namely the policies and procedures that women have to go through to report sexual...
This week’s column honestly makes me so mad I don’t even know what to do or where to start. It’s just awful, heartbreaking and in my opinion, absolutely unnecessary. Last week, federal immigration agents detained a 10-year-old girl with cerebral...
In a chaotic world that seems to be filled with nothing but news and images of natural disasters and humanitarian crises, this next bit of news was pleasantly surprising. Last week, Saudi Arabia announced the end of restrictions that forbid women from driving. Women...
The conflict in Yemen has been ongoing since March 2015, affecting millions of women and girls. A March 2017 BBC report cited that more than 7,600 people have been killed and 42,000 injured in the last two years. The conflict and a blockade imposed by a Saudi-led...