The Empower Women Team is proud the feature the actions of three of our amazing Champions:   Charlene Laidley: Charlene is passionate about the development and empowerment of women. She sees the strategic role of EmpowerWomen.org coupled with grassroots leadership as a major opportunity to...

Change is coming! We truly appreciate our global community of passionate women and men, whose dedication to women's economic empowerment online and in your own communities is unmatched. Your contributions in the form of stories, shared resources and engaging discussions move and drive us to...

2015 was a great year for women’s economic empowerment! We have pulled together some empowering moments during the year.  We collaborated with many of you in organizing e-discussions, webinars, Twitter chats and offline events. The iLearn mobile-learning platform was launched in 7 languages, and...

Empower Women is pleased to announce the 25 winners [i] of “ Win a Free Online Language Course of Your Choice ” Contest. We received motivating applications from our members across the globe. Whether a woman entrepreneur, employee or a student – the applicants emphasized the importance of...

Photo: Ryan Brown/ UN Women Since 25 September, more than 220 global leaders, and representatives of governments, businesses, civil society organizations as well as individuals have made their commitments to advancing women’s economic empowerment. And the number is growing every day. If you...

On 23 September, Empower Women turned two years old. We were deeply moved by all your birthday messages. We would like to say thank each and every one of you for continuing to use your voice and resources to make progress towards women’s economic empowerment globally and for two wonderful years. ...

Panama City, 29 July 2015 Mark Zuckerberg and the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela announced the introduction of Internet.org in Panama at the Americas Summit in April and the official launch took place on Wednesday 29 July 2015 on a tri-partite partnership between Facebook, the National...

From this week onwards UN Women's global mobile-learning platform for women entrepreneurs, iLearn , will be more accessible to the women of South Africa. The iLearn platform is one of the free basic services on the Internet.org app that launched in South Africa today. The iLearn initiative...