Melinda Gates, Co-Chair & Trustee, Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation: Family Planning Voices

It’s no accident that I waited to have my first child until I’d finished graduate school, devoted a decade to my career, and decided with Bill that we were read...

Amitabh Bachchan Feels Timely Detection Of Diseases Is Beneficial On The Eve Of Breast Cancer Awareness App Launch Event

Amitabh Bachchan, who is a tuberculosis and Hepatitis B survior, on Wednesday, launched a mobile application named 'ABC of Breast Health' by Usha Lakshmi Breast Cancer Foun...

Exclusive: Melinda Gates On The Power Of Women Coming Together

When women come together, change happens. I think I’ve always known this intuitively, but I really started paying attention 15 years ago, when I visited a village in ...

After Her Husband’s Death, Shanno Begum Defied Odds to Become Delhi’s First Woman Uber Driver

“My name is Shanno Begum from Delhi.”

Thus begins a video telling the story of an extraordinary woman who overcame the impossible to become the first wo...

INTERVIEW-India honors former child maid who saved hundreds others

NEW DELHI, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 21-year-old Indian woman, trafficked and enslaved as a child maid, was given a "Women Power" award by the president on W...

This Coimbatore NGO Is Making Toilets More Accessible To The Disabled At The City’s Railway Station

Even though crores of commuters travel through trains in India on a daily basis, railway stations for the most part woefully remain inaccessible to those who have movement ...

Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon And More Stars Join Tory Burch's #EmbraceAmbition Movement for International Women's Day

“Be persistent.” “Don’t apologize.” “Never give up on your hopes and dreams.” These are the calls to action made in the empowering...

Smurfs Team Up With United Nations For A Happier, More Peaceful And Equitable World

The popular Smurfs characters are encouraging children, young people and adults to make the world happier, more peaceful, equitable and healthy with a campaign launched tod...

Shannen Doherty To Host Animal Hope And Wellness Foundation Gratitude Gala

Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation (AHWF), a 501c3 non-profit organization that is focused solely on rescuing, rehabbing and rehoming abused and neglected animals, has rel...