Category: The Twenty Thirty Project

• #BALANCEFORBETTER

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  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  balanceforbetter, discrimination, engineering, mathematics, science, stem, technology, toronto, women, youth

• The Sex Trafficking Debate

  

  In 2014 The International Labour Organization recognized sex trafficking as the fastest-growing business of organized crime, and the world’s third-largest criminal enterprise. Sometimes referred to as the ‘body trade’ – this term implies that reducing of the physical and social being to an economic instrument.  The Debate: Is this the individual’s voluntary labor choice? If…

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  assault, canada, canadian government, coercion, criminal law, criminology, cultural norms, globalisation, human rights obligations, intimidation, psychology, sex, sex tourism, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, suicidal ideation, technology, tourism, victims, violence, womens studies

• The STEM Future is Female

  

  In honor of The UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science. “Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Over the past 15 years, the global community has made a lot of effort in inspiring and engaging women…

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  black girls, black women, double bind, double disadvantage, education, future, intersectional experiences, maleness, marginalized, poc, poc girls, poc women, privilege, race, science, stem, students of color, technology, thetwentythirtyproject, whiteness

• How the women, the poorest of the poor, are taking control in leading their families to food security.

  

  For many women, urban agriculture is a means to provide some form of food security, and a means of social interaction, self-fulfillment and escape from the obligations, relationships and hierarchies of everyday life. Though these activities were seen to empower women and challenge patriarchal relations, this also evoked resistance. Women from Inity explained how they…

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  cities, economic, education, farming, food security, freetown, garden, gender and urban gardening, opportunities, policy, sierre leone, social conditions, thetwentythirtyproject, urban, urban agriculture, urban farming, women, youth

• Disappearing Islands

  

  Land is more than just soil and dirt under the feet of life, or resources of economic potential. For many, land is representative of their country’s sovereignty and national identity.  For the people of Kiribati, whose land sits just 3 meteres above sea level, the rising global temperatures and sea levels mean a threat to…

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  biodiversity, bleaching, Caribbean architectural designers, caribbean small islands, climate-related threats, disappearing islands, global temperatures, hurricanes, inequalities, kiribati, national identity, sea level, sovereignty, urban planning

• Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry

  

  Chocolate reached its peak popularity when it saw itself being celebrated locally, nationally and internationally for its taste; encouraging everyone living in North America and Western Europe to increase their consumption of  chocolate; hovering over the already average consumption of 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate per year in America alone. Accompanying the sale of the…

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  america, child labor, child trafficking, chocolate, cocoa farmers, europe, extortion, global chocolate market, health, ivorian law, malnutrition, poor education, poverty

• Women’s March 2020

  

  In case you didn’t know – today marks the 4th Annual Global Women’s March.  Since the 1990s, violence against women has gone from being something that only concerned feminist activists to becoming a key human rights issue around the world. The Feminist movement began in the 20th century, focusing on the reproductive rights of women. …

  April Marie Canillo

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  The Twenty Thirty Project

  2020, equity, feminist, gender, global women's march, institution, mobilized women, movement, reproductive rights, social movement, thetwentythirtyproject, united nations, violence against women, visibility, women, women human rights activists, womens march