Author: Gabrielle Hosein

Dr Gabrielle Jamela Hosein A NEW report, launched by UNICEF, Plan International and UN Women, reviewed how adolescent girls’ lives have changed in the last 30 years since the Beijing Platform for Action was endorsed by 189 governments in 1995. Its key message is: 30 years of uneven progress for adolescent girls. Women and girls […]

Dr Gabrielle Jamela Hosein THROUGH the most top-down and elite of processes, Stuart Young is now heir to the prime ministerial throne. Politics is Machiavellian, referring to the political theory of Italian Niccolò Machiavelli and meaning cunning, scheming and unscrupulous. Seizing and retaining power is cut-throat business. The party would have concluded that Young could […]

Dr Gabrielle Jamela Hosein IN A TIME of unprecedented crisis, unlike any other in human history, we ricochet between anger, anxiety, celebration, and joy. This year, our most needed emotion is hope. Hope counters apathy. Apathy is a turning inward to social media scrolling, entertainment, and consumerism as escape. It is an individualistic approach to […]