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23:56:52 05/03/12
Vocational training: learning as you go
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Vocational training: learning as you go
www.euronews.com Vocational training gives young people across the world the chance to learn skills and get professional qualifications. *Kyrgyzstan: the job market* In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, echoes of the city's Soviet past can be found on nearly every street corner but it is not just in the bricks and mortar. The traditional Vocational Training Schools of the Soviet era are still up and running, adapting to the needs of an ever changing job market. In a city where a third of people live below the poverty line and around nine percent are unemployed, the Vocational Training Schools offer a life-line to youngsters. For more information see: "cia":www.cia.gov "kyrgyzstan":www.etfliveandlearn.eu "etf":www.etf.europa.eu *Afghanistan: Women in the driving seat* Driving in Afghanistan has long been a male dominated activity but one school in Kabul is now teaching young women to drive. As well as helping them get their driving licences, the classes foster their self-confidence and help them challenge some traditional customs. Learning to drive for the women means more than just getting from A to B, it symbolises a path to empowerment. For more information see: "code de conduite":www.985fm.ca "women'srights":en.wikipedia.org *USA: Space cadets* Becoming an astronaut is not be everyone's dream job but thanks to an international competition, a group of carefully selected youngsters may some day reach for the stars - literally. Space Lab called on students to upload ideas for space ... From: Euronews Views: 112 2 ratings Time: 10:17 More in Shows
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23:56:52 05/03/12
Vocational training: learning as you go
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Vocational training: learning as you go
www.euronews.com Vocational training gives young people across the world the chance to learn skills and get professional qualifications. *Kyrgyzstan: the job market* In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, echoes of the city's Soviet past can be found on nearly every street corner but it is not just in the bricks and mortar. The traditional Vocational Training Schools of the Soviet era are still up and running, adapting to the needs of an ever changing job market. In a city where a third of people live below the poverty line and around nine percent are unemployed, the Vocational Training Schools offer a life-line to youngsters. For more information see: "cia":www.cia.gov "kyrgyzstan":www.etfliveandlearn.eu "etf":www.etf.europa.eu *Afghanistan: Women in the driving seat* Driving in Afghanistan has long been a male dominated activity but one school in Kabul is now teaching young women to drive. As well as helping them get their driving licences, the classes foster their self-confidence and help them challenge some traditional customs. Learning to drive for the women means more than just getting from A to B, it symbolises a path to empowerment. For more information see: "code de conduite":www.985fm.ca "women'srights":en.wikipedia.org *USA: Space cadets* Becoming an astronaut is not be everyone's dream job but thanks to an international competition, a group of carefully selected youngsters may some day reach for the stars - literally. Space Lab called on students to upload ideas for space ... From: Euronews Views: 92 2 ratings Time: 10:17 More in Shows
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21:53:46 05/03/12
Lighting the way for women
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Lighting the way for women
www.euronews.com According to the United Nations, 115 million primary school-age children still are not in education. And 54% of those children are girls. International Women's Day is a reminder that in many countries, women still face major barriers to becoming fully active members of society. Literacy is one vital tool that helps women improve their lives. *Afghanistan: Rising From the Ashes* Sakeena Yakoobi devotes her life to empowering women in Afghanistan, and is the founder of the Afghan Institute for Learning, an NGO which runs more than 150 education and health projects across the country. Her NGO aims to develop critical thinking, promote women's health awareness, and most importantly, to encourage women to challenge traditional, faith-based social boundaries. Ten years ago Sakeena Yacoobi left a comfortable life as a doctor in the US to come back to Afghanistan. She says she wanted to contribute something to her country, like this kindergarten which is one of more than 150 projects run by her foundation. During the Taliban era, when education for girls was forbidden, Yacoobi ran 80 underground schools. Now, girls can go to school openly and the challenge is to change the culture of this deeply-conservative society through education. The Taliban has threatened to kill Yacoobi because of her work. So both her driver and her project manager are policemen. On average Afghan women have 7 children. In the clinics run by Yacoobi's foundation the focus is on empowering ... From: Euronews Views: 65 2 ratings Time: 09:16 More in Shows
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21:53:46 05/03/12
Lighting the way for women
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Lighting the way for women
www.euronews.com According to the United Nations, 115 million primary school-age children still are not in education. And 54% of those children are girls. International Women's Day is a reminder that in many countries, women still face major barriers to becoming fully active members of society. Literacy is one vital tool that helps women improve their lives. *Afghanistan: Rising From the Ashes* Sakeena Yakoobi devotes her life to empowering women in Afghanistan, and is the founder of the Afghan Institute for Learning, an NGO which runs more than 150 education and health projects across the country. Her NGO aims to develop critical thinking, promote women's health awareness, and most importantly, to encourage women to challenge traditional, faith-based social boundaries. Ten years ago Sakeena Yacoobi left a comfortable life as a doctor in the US to come back to Afghanistan. She says she wanted to contribute something to her country, like this kindergarten which is one of more than 150 projects run by her foundation. During the Taliban era, when education for girls was forbidden, Yacoobi ran 80 underground schools. Now, girls can go to school openly and the challenge is to change the culture of this deeply-conservative society through education. The Taliban has threatened to kill Yacoobi because of her work. So both her driver and her project manager are policemen. On average Afghan women have 7 children. In the clinics run by Yacoobi's foundation the focus is on empowering ... From: Euronews Views: 53 2 ratings Time: 09:16 More in Shows
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19:21:02 04/26/12
MEDAL QUEST | Meet Alana Nichols | "My competitive spirit kicked in." | PBS
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MEDAL QUEST | Meet Alana Nichols | "My competitive spirit kicked in." | PBS
Alana Nichols of the women's wheelchair basketball team admits she likes going "really fast." "I love feeling my heart beat," she says. Her competitive spirit took over when she started playing wheelchair athletics. Nichols is amazed that she and her team won a gold medal on the exact anniversary of the day she broke her back. Now, she's the first woman to win gold in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. MEDAL QUEST offers an unprecedented look into these high-stake games and the athletes that play them, and is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston in association with the US Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee. More at: pbs.org From: PBS Views: 1306 12 ratings Time: 02:53 More in Sports
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20:57:08 04/22/12
HARLEM RALLY AGAINST STOP AND FRISK
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OCCUPY HARLEM MARCH & RALLY %middot AGAINST RACIST KILLINGS
FOR TRAYVON MARTIN & ALL THE TRAYONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY %middot END STOP & FRISK & RACIAL PROFILING %middot BUILD A UNITED FRONT AGAINST RACIST VIOLENCE Contact: Nellie Hester Bailey 646-812-5188
On Saturday, April 2st. at 1-2PM hundreds of demonstrators joined Occupy Harlem at 124th and 5th Avenue %hellip The assembly will then march throughout Central Harlem protesting racist killings, stop & frisk, and racial profiling. The march ended at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd with a rally . The theme of the protest: %ldquoBuild A United Front Against Racist Violence,%rdquo highlights the killing of 17 year Trayvon Martin in Stanford, Florida by %ldquoStand Your Ground%rdquo self style vigilante George Zimmerman.
After a firestorm of national protest Zimmerman was eventually charged with 2nd degree murder that carries a maximum of life imprisonment.
Released on a low bond of only $150,000 despite prosecutor%rsquos request for a million dollar bail Zimmerman issued a self-serving apology to Martin%rsquos family that came fifty days after he shot the unarmed teenager. Zimmerman%rsquos contrition makes palatable public appeals for financial support especially from the far right.
The Martin case is only the tip of the iceberg. Across the US unarmed Black men, women and youth are killed, brutalized and harassed on a daily basis without redress or a modicum of expose from corporate media. In New York City, the center of international finance capital, the New York Police Dept. (NYPD) operates inside a systemic culture of brutality and violence with a wanton disregard for human life.
This %ldquoBlue Wall%rdquo of death deliberately targets people of color, especially Black and Latino youth. The executions of unarmed Ramarley Graham in the Bronx, and unarmed former marine Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. in White Plains adds to a long list of racist killings by NYPD going back to the 1973 police killing of 10 years old Clifford Glover - shot twice in the back by a plainclothes cop; the 1984 police murder of 66 year old Eleanor Bumpurs - blasted twice & killed by a 12 gauge shotgun; African immigrant Amadou Diallo killed in a hail of 41 shots in 1999, all fired by white police officers, all of whom were acquitted. Over 600,000 people have been stopped and frisked by NYPD, and the city made over 50,000s non-violent marijuana arrests. On the national level it%rsquos no better if you%rsquore Black, man or woman. In Chicago unarmed 22 year old Rekia Boyd shot in the head by intoxicated off duty cop.
Occupy Harlem supports a national campaign that calls for: (1) a national database that documents the killings of Black people by
police, security guards and self-appointed peacekeepers, (2) the President to create and institute a %ldquoNational Plan of Action for Racial Justice%rdquo to fulfill the governments obligations under the Convention to Eliminate all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) by creating a permanent Inter-Agency Working Group to implement all of the aforementioned demands to protect Black and other historically oppressed groups from racial discrimination, targeted violence, and summary executions.
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02:47:04 04/19/12
Lighting the way for women
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Lighting the way for women
www.euronews.com According to the United Nations, 115 million primary school-age children still are not in education. And 54% of those children are girls. International Women's Day is a reminder that in many countries, women still face major barriers to becoming fully active members of society. Literacy is one vital tool that helps women improve their lives. *Afghanistan: Rising From the Ashes* Sakeena Yakoobi devotes her life to empowering women in Afghanistan, and is the founder of the Afghan Institute for Learning, an NGO which runs more than 150 education and health projects across the country. Her NGO aims to develop critical thinking, promote women's health awareness, and most importantly, to encourage women to challenge traditional, faith-based social boundaries. Ten years ago Sakeena Yacoobi left a comfortable life as a doctor in the US to come back to Afghanistan. She says she wanted to contribute something to her country, like this kindergarten which is one of more than 150 projects run by her foundation. During the Taliban era, when education for girls was forbidden, Yacoobi ran 80 underground schools. Now, girls can go to school openly and the challenge is to change the culture of this deeply-conservative society through education. The Taliban has threatened to kill Yacoobi because of her work. So both her driver and her project manager are policemen. On average Afghan women have 7 children. In the clinics run by Yacoobi's foundation the focus is on empowering ... From: Euronews Views: 69 2 ratings Time: 09:16 More in Shows
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02:47:04 04/19/12
Lighting the way for women
[LESS INFO] 0 VIEWS | ADDED 02:47:04 04/19/12
Lighting the way for women
www.euronews.com According to the United Nations, 115 million primary school-age children still are not in education. And 54% of those children are girls. International Women's Day is a reminder that in many countries, women still face major barriers to becoming fully active members of society. Literacy is one vital tool that helps women improve their lives. *Afghanistan: Rising From the Ashes* Sakeena Yakoobi devotes her life to empowering women in Afghanistan, and is the founder of the Afghan Institute for Learning, an NGO which runs more than 150 education and health projects across the country. Her NGO aims to develop critical thinking, promote women's health awareness, and most importantly, to encourage women to challenge traditional, faith-based social boundaries. Ten years ago Sakeena Yacoobi left a comfortable life as a doctor in the US to come back to Afghanistan. She says she wanted to contribute something to her country, like this kindergarten which is one of more than 150 projects run by her foundation. During the Taliban era, when education for girls was forbidden, Yacoobi ran 80 underground schools. Now, girls can go to school openly and the challenge is to change the culture of this deeply-conservative society through education. The Taliban has threatened to kill Yacoobi because of her work. So both her driver and her project manager are policemen. On average Afghan women have 7 children. In the clinics run by Yacoobi's foundation the focus is on empowering ... From: Euronews Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 09:16 More in Shows
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01:00:42 04/06/12
Republicans Threaten Judges, Accuse Obama of Judicial Intimidation
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(Clips of Tom Delay and John Cornyn quoted below start after the 1:00 mark.)
On Monday, President Obama unsurprisingly expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would uphold the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Even less remarkable, Obama rightly reminded Americans that "conservative commentators" have for years said "the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint -- that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law." Nevertheless, Republicans quickly accused the President of "unprecedented" effort to "intimidate the Supreme Court."
Of course, this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black (to put it mildly). After all, denouncing " judicial activism " has been a GOP talking point for years. Not content to rest there, the party's members of Congress and presidential candidates have pushed to limit the federal judiciary's jurisdiction on a range of issues, abortion not least among them. And as their incendiary rhetoric during the Terri Schiavo saga and other episodes reveals, Republican leaders didn't hesitate to issue none-too-thinly veiled threats of violence against the nation's judges .
Following the President's statement, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led the GOP charge: >
"This president's attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court falls well beyond distasteful politics. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect for our system of checks and balances."
While Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Karl Rove all called the President a "thug," McConnell doubled-down on Thursday, insisting Obama should "back off" because "the independence of the court must be defended."
Of course, back in 2005, McConnell played a pivotal role in the GOP effort to disregard the 19 rulings by Florida and federal courts, including the Supreme Court, in the case of Terri Schiavo . As he explained to an incredulous Brit Hume of Fox News: >
What we simply did was grant to the courts an opportunity to review the case, something they do in habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases all the time. It's not unusual for a death decision. And in effect, that's what's happening here. >
A decision to let Ms. Schiavo die would be reviewed in the courts. That's all Congress did. The courts took a look at it, decided not to review it. And this tragic matter obviously is soon going to come to an end.
Not if Texas Senator John Cornyn had his way. Cornyn, himself a former chief judge of the Texas Supreme Court and author in 2010 of an attack on Obama nominee Elena Kagan titled, " I Sense a Judicial Activist ," took the Republican assault on the judiciary to a new and frightening level. Cornyn was one of the GOP standard bearers in the conservative fight against so-called "judicial activism" in the wake of the Republicans' disastrous intervention in the Terri Schiavo affair. On April 4th, Cornyn took to the Senate floor to issue a dark warning to judges opposing his reactionary agenda. Just days after the murders of judge in Atlanta and another's family members in Chicago, Cornyn offered his endorsement of judicial intimidation: >
"I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country...And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence."
Facing criticism for his remarks seemingly endorsing right-wing retribution against judges, Cornyn held his ground . "I didn't make the link," he said on Fox News Sunday, adding with a note of sarcasm: >
"It was taken out of context. I regret it was taken out of context and misinterpreted."
As it turns out, Cornyn was merely echoing the words of the soon-to-be indicted House Majority Leader Tom Delay . On March 31st, Delay issued a statement regarding the consistent rulings in favor of Michael Schiavo by all federal and state court judges involved: >
"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."
As the New York Times reported: >
Saying that the courts ''thumbed their nose at Congress and the president,'' Mr. DeLay, of Texas, suggested Congress was exploring responses and declined to rule out the possibility of Congressional impeachment of the judges involved.
The impact of tacit conservative endorsement of violence against judges cannot be dismissed. After all, it extends to members of the Supreme Court of the United States. In March 2006, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed that she and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were the targets of death threats . On February 28th, 2005, the marshal of the Court informed O'Connor and Ginsburg of an Internet posting citing their references to international law in Court decisions (a frequent whipping boy of the right) as requiring their assassination: >
"This is a huge threat to our Republic and Constitutional freedom...If you are what you say you are, and NOT armchair patriots, then those two justices will not live another week."
Neither O'Connor nor Ginsburg were shy about making the connection between Republican rhetoric of judicial intimidation and the upswing in threats and actual violence against judges. While Ginsburg noted that they "fuel the irrational fringe," O'Connor blamed Cornyn and his fellow travelers for "creating a culture" in which violence towards judges is merely another political tactic: >
"It gets worse. It doesn't help when a high-profile senator suggests a 'cause-and-effect connection' [between controversial rulings and subsequent acts of violence]."
Of course, O'Connor and Ginsburg weren't the only targets of right-wing retribution, serious or otherwise. After sentencing Scooter Libby to 30 months in prison in 2007, Judge Reggie Walton reported receiving death threats. That episode followed a January 2006 joke by best-selling conservative author and media personality Ann Coulter , who mused in January 2006, "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee." (When Justice David Souter announced his resignation from the Court in 2009, Red State editor and CNN regular Erick Erickson responded by tweeting, "The nation loses the only goat f--king child molester to ever serve on the Supreme Court in David Souter's retirement.")
Apparently, Coulter's judicial rat poison would have been just fine with Montana Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg . Just weeks after the Tucson slaughter that claimed the life of circuit judge John Roll , Rehberg responded to a recent ruling by declaring he wanted to " put some of these judicial activists on the Endangered Species list ": >
"Environmental obstructionists found a federal judge in Missoula that was willing to ignore the scientific evidence as well as the expert opinions of on-the-ground wildlife managers here in Montana. And he ruled last August that the grey wolf had to remain on the Endangered Species List. >
When I first heard his decision, like many of you I wanted to take action immediately. I asked: how can we put some of these judicial activists on the Endangered Species List? I am still working on that!"
And so it goes.
Of course, the Republican criticism of President Obama's own critique of judicial activism started long before this week's comical accusation (shockingly echoed by a GOP appointee on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ) that Obama doesn't believe in the concept of judicial review. This week, Senator McConnell resurrected the GOP's bogus charge that Obama "browbeat the Court during the State of the Union."
As you'll recall, Republican leaders feigned outrage over President Obama's criticism of the Court's Citizens United decision during his 2010 State of the Union. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch called it "rude," adding "It's one thing to say that he differed with the court but another thing to demagogue the issue while the court is sitting there out of respect for his position." As usual, Texan John Cornyn took it a step further , calling Obama's strong disagreement with the Court "hysterical" and insisting : >
"I don't think the president should have done what he did in trying to call out the Supreme Court for doing its job. They are the final word on the meaning of the United States Constitution, even when we don't like the outcome."
Unless, that is, a Republican is in the White House.
After all, George W. Bush's Supreme politicking during his State of the Union speeches was a regular fixture of his presidency. For three straight years ( 2004 , 2005 and 2006 ), President Bush denounced "activist judges" and insisted "for the good of families, children and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage." On the very day Samuel Alito joined the Roberts Court, Bush used his 2006 SOTU for a victory lap: >
"The Supreme Court now has two superb new members -- new members on its bench: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito. I thank the Senate for confirming both of them. I will continue to nominate men and women who understand that judges must be servants of the law and not legislate from the bench."
Of course, Bush had his own unique view of the constitutional separation of powers. As he put it in 2000: >
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
So much for the nine robed people who sit in the Supreme Court. Which is just fine with the GOP, just as long as one of their own is seated in the Oval Office.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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20:42:20 03/18/12
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Women try to persuade their men to put a stop to war in this fusion of comedy and drama from director, screenwriter and actress Nadine Labaki. Amal (Labaki) runs a cafe in a small Lebanese village where the local women, both Christian and Muslim, get together to talk, swap ideas and share grief as the number who've lost sons or husbands in frequent skirmishes continues to grow. The fighting between religious and political factions has been going on for years, and one day Amal and her friends Afaf (Layla Hakim), Saydeh (Antoinette Noufaily), Takla (Claude Baz Moussawbaa) and Yvonne (Yvonne Maalouf) declare it's time to stop talking about the fighting and do something to stop it. The local women join forces to distract their men, convinced if they put their minds on other things they won't worry so much about killing, and their efforts range from serving hashish-laced baked goods at a community get-together to hiring Ukrainian dancers to show off their charms to the menfolk. After a young man is killed in a gun battle, the women realize they need to take a stronger stand if they intend to make their home safe again; meanwhile, Christian Amal unwittingly strikes a blow for religious unity when she falls for handsome Muslim Rabih (Julien Farhat). Et Maintenant On Va Ou? (aka Where Do We Go Now? won the People's Choice Award at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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00:03:00 03/14/12
Activists Target Bank of America on International Women's Day
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Four arrested as women occupy Bank of America across the country
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00:03:00 03/14/12
Activists Target Bank of America on International Women's Day
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Four arrested as women occupy Bank of America across the country
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15:00:03 03/09/12
No Comment 09/03
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Rallies across the West Bank on International Women's Day
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15:00:03 03/09/12
No Comment 09/03
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Rallies across the West Bank on International Women's Day
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10:27:21 03/09/12
Chile women's rights protest ends in fierce clashes
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Chile women's rights protest ends in fierce clashes
A march in the country's capital, Santiago, for International Women's Day ended in chaos as protesters clashed with police and smashed shop windows. From: telegraphtv Views: 118 2 ratings Time: 01:25 More in News & Politics
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10:13:00 03/09/12
Jeff Randall's Podcast Episode 507
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Today is International Women's Day, the annual celebration of the achievements of the more than fifty per cent of us who aren't men. Anna spoke to the EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding who's the driving force behind introducing quotas and Helena Morrissey, Chief Executive of Newton Investment Management and founder of the 30% Club, whose aim is to voluntarily get more women on boards.
