In 2015, the ONE Campaign launched its Poverty is Sexist campaign, asking women and men around the world to take "strengthies" (strong selfies) in solidarity with the women's rights movement. ONE also produced the "Strong Girl" video to promote African artists in the movement. On International Women's Day 2016, ONE has issued a letter signed by Hollywood luminaries, musicians and activists such as Oprah Winfrey, Robert Redford, Muhammad Ali, Sheryl Sandberg and others. (June

The all-star benefit concert gave rise to the trend of high-profile, celebrity-endorsed charitable efforts, and changed the nature of fundraising in the process. On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul McCartney, David Bowie, and Madonna played beneath a “Feed the World” banner on stages in London and Philadelphia. Live Aid, as the event was known, was attended by almost 175,000 peo

It's Father's Day, a day which should be filled with summertime family fun - not stories about child marriage. In the United States, it's hard for us to imagine something as shocking as children marrying at an age when they should be attending second grade, but it happens in many countries. In some cultures, child marriage is an accepted (although usually illegal) social norm, which dictates that children are married off to other families in exchange for a dowry that includes

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE DAILY BEAST Actress, activist and African American: Danai Gurira believes in the power of using her voice to amplify African storytellers. The set of The Walking Dead is a difficult place to stand out on Halloween: the zombie quotient is high and the makeup artists are two-time Emmy winners, but nobody rocks a katana and dreadlocks better than Danai Gurira in her role as the steely heroine, Michonne. (READ MORE) PHOTO COURTESY OF FOX INTERNATION

By Kristi York Wooten Sustenance Group partcipated in the Women and Peacebuilding event at The Carter Center on November 5, 2014, which took place immediately following the annual meeting of The Elders. Chaired by Kofi Annan, The Elders is an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights. They were brought together in 2007 by Nelson Mandela. The concept originated in a conversation between Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel about how a small,