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Tag: women

  • Being a Maltese Woman in the Current Political Climate

    Being a Maltese Woman in the Current Political Climate

    Restrictive laws play into the hands of oppressors who want to control women’s lives, bodies, and careers.

  • The Harmful Reality of Catcalling: A Woman’s Perspective

    The Harmful Reality of Catcalling: A Woman’s Perspective

    Catcalling undermines women’s safety and self-worth, and has led to harmful personal impact that society must recognise, address, and dismantle.

  • Women’s Day

    So much went into play to allow for this annual international celebration to be cemented into our calendars. More than a hundred years of protests, campaigns, and movements, fighting gender disparity, raising awareness on the many oppressions faced by women, and bringing forward individuals who became immortalised by their actions, instilled the passion and fight…

  • Taliban Takeover

    Summary of events Ever since the Russian Federation was overthrown in 1989, Afghanistan has been a battleground. A definition of a failed state, Afghanistan was in a state of Anarchy. Rule of law was nonexistent, warlords and tribes waged war on each other to rule one another, and without terms nor adherence to any form…

  • Gender Quotas: The Answer to Increased Female Representation?

    Gender Quotas: The Answer to Increased Female Representation?

    Gender quotas are being pushed to increase women’s political representation. But will it solve the issue or will it make it even harder for equal representation to be achieved?

  • Bond. Just not James | a look into the new 007

    Bond. Just not James | a look into the new 007

    I assume that everyone noted that the time tested series, James Bond, recently made the rounds in the news headlines with its alleged “popcorn dropping moment”. So first lets get back to basics. The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent as created in 1953 by Ian Fleming. Since Fleming’s death…