By Linda Cohen, March 14, 2017 We set out with a goal to plant 100 peace poles around the Rotary District 5100 in conjunction with District 5030. In the end we placed 121 orders for peace poles to be planted from Salem to Vancouver, Washington, Hermiston and Hood River Oregon [...]

By Emily Wood, Rotaract Club of South-West Brisbane, Australia, March 13, 2017, published in Rotary Voices       I’ve been a member of Rotaract — Rotary’s community service and professional development program for young leaders age 18-30 — for ten years. As I age out or “graduate,” I’ve started thinking about what [...]

By Jennifer Hassan, March 8, 2017, published in The Washington Post The theme of this year's International Women's Day, a holiday now more than a century old, is “Be Bold For Change.” It's a message intended to push people toward concrete action on gender equality. Here are the stories of five [...]

March 6, 2017, published in UN Women  The 2017 theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, focuses on “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030”. The world of work is changing, with significant implications for women. On one hand, technological advances and globalization bring unprecedented opportunities [...]

By Denyse Tuyishime, February 20, 2017, published in KT Press Twenty three years ago, Rwanda was at the extreme of destruction – a million lives were lost in a genocide against Tutsi. However, when the Rwanda Patriotic Front stopped the genocide and defeated government army, it embarked on a battle [...]

By Hermanto Hasan, A Rotary Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, March 1, 2017, published in Rotary Voices Rotary Peace Fellow Class 22 at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. When I found out I was accepted for the Rotary Peace Fellowship at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, [...]