The Brave Discussion

What’s with all the red X’s showing up on Facebook and Twitter?   More than likely, you’re seeing people stand up and lend their voice to the #enditmovement to STOP MODERN DAY SLAVERY. It’s ‘SHINE A LIGHT ON SLAVERY” day and you can join the Freedom Fighters to bring this to an end. It’s at this stage a [...]

One of the values we advocate on The Brave Discussion is to ‘Protect Human Rights’. To this end as a community we often share stories about how we can help to a) raise awareness to stop modern-day slavery and human trafficking and b) how we can take  action. This January, will you have a BRAVE [...]

I have been absorbed this week in the ‘Outlook 2013′ roundup from the The World Futurist Society, its annual mind blowing forecasts. Although futurist forecasts’ are intended to provoke thought and discussion, always a good thing for society, one forecast which turned my head and not in a good way was an outlook listed in [...]

When you think of beautiful shoes, girls will always say Jimmy Choo. It’s a luxury lifestyle brand with klout! In recent years the company has moved to firm up it’s social responsibility committments with significant results, founding, the Jimmy Choo Foundation as a non-profit charitable trust that empowers women by helping them to lead healthier and [...]

I first came across Cate  Bolt watching her wonderful twitter voice. She connected with her audience in such an authentic manner and I wondered who was this woman behind the ‘twitterverse’ voice.  She seemed to have so many varied interests and in a wide variety of causes. Cate calls herself an ordinary mum, living through all the [...]

Today we share the story of Christine Caine – founder of The A21 Campaign. When confronted with the horrific statistics surrounding human trafficking, it is easy to agree on the fact that “someone should do something.”The A21 Campaign was born when the decision was made to put their hand up and be that “someone”. It [...]

Today, Lloyd is the founder and director of GEMS in Harlem, one of the most ground-breaking nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Now the nation’s largest organization offering direct services to American victims of child sex trafficking, GEMS’ empowers girls and young women, ages 12-24, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking to exit [...]

The Brave Discussion’s multi-media, interactive curriculum combines storytelling, critical media analysis, media skills and narrative strategy with organising and movement building. Read more about our methodology here (PDF FILE) The common thread is that grassroots projects with local ownership, often propelled by exceptionally bright and driven social entrepreneurs who had encountered the ‘treetops’ efforts and [...]

I first heard Geraldine Cox’s story when she spoke at the acclaimed Happiness and its Causes conference in 2008, here is an extract from that story and an update on her wonderful work. Affectionately known as ‘Big Mum’, Geraldine’s energy, commitment and joy for life has changed the lives of thousands of Cambodian children. Geraldine [...]

We found this story on the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute website. Be warned – it’s very graphic. And very heartbreaking. It’s a story that needs to change. According to a recent report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) up to 50 million girls and women are missing in India’s population as a result of [...]