Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Every year on 10 December, we celebrate International Human Rights Day. It’s an opportunity to commemorate those activists whose work has made the world a better place. People like Martin...
For more information watch the Investing in Peace session from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here.
Hace más de 40 años, el mundo le declaró la guerra a las drogas. Hoy, las drogas son más baratas, más puras y más fáciles de conseguir que nunca a nivel mundial. La pregunta es: ¿deberíam...
Han pasado más de 20 años desde que la Asamblea General de la ONU se comprometió a erradicar la violencia contra la mujer. Sin embargo, al día de hoy se estima que una de cada tres mujere...
“Disability need not be an obstacle to success,” Stephen Hawking wrote in the first ever world disability report back in 2011. As one of the most influential scientists of modern times, t...
In a year of surprising and contentious electoral results, many of us are choosing to “vote with our wallets” by boycotting brands we don’t believe match our values. Now businesses are do...
Over 40 years ago, the world declared war on drugs. Today, drugs are cheaper, purer and more widely available than ever before, at least on a global scale. So should we admit defeat and s...
It’s been over 20 years since the UN General Assembly committed to eradicating violence against women. And yet today, it’s estimated that one in three women has experienced some form of s...
It’s a long-standing piece of advice: to really succeed at work, you need to be a ruthless, hard-nosed go-getter. Your employees aren’t your friends, they’re there for one thing and that’...
It’s been called the forgotten war: while the rest of the world focuses on the ongoing situation in Syria, the US elections and Brexit, Yemen – the poorest country in the Middle East and ...
Sometimes those who have the least give the most. And that seems to be the case when it comes to one of the defining challenges of our time: the unprecedented number of refugees who have ...
Cada año, 15 millones de niñas son casadas antes de la edad de 18. Las consecuencias de esta práctica son bien conocidas: el casamiento de niñas hace que corran un mayor riesgo de violenc...
The world of work is changing faster and more drastically than at perhaps any other time in recent history. According to research from the World Economic Forum, 35% of the skills necessar...
人们的工作环境如今可能经历着比之前任何一个时期都更为快速而剧烈的变化。根据世界经济论坛的调查，在五年后，使人能在工作中游刃有余的必要技能会有35%的不同。可是如果我们无法预知未来的工作环境是什么样的时候，我们要对此作何准备呢？有哪些技能和专业知识是学生们为了将来取得成功而需要习得的呢？我们访问了五位世界经济论坛全球青年领袖中的专家，了解到了他们的看法。
If the burgeoning market for self-improvement books is anything to go by, even the most successful and self-assured of us are open to receiving advice. The fact is, no matter how impressi...
