Who Cares Wins with Lily Cole

Who Cares Wins Presents another Extraordinary Women, Zarifa Ghafari.  Zarifa - one of Afghanistan’s youngest female mayors to ever be elected, had to flee the country to Germany last year when the Taliban regained power. She's been tirelessly advocating for women’s rights in a country with one of the highest gender gaps between men and women globally. She is someone who has defied the odds to reach her leadership position but it has not been without sacrifice - she survived 4 assassination attempts, 1 which ultimately killed her Father, General Abdul Wasi Ghafari. The music you will hear throughout is from The Zohra Orchestra : Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra, named after the music goddess in Persian writings and who performed at Davos in 2017.  LINKShttps://theecologist.org/2022/jun/27/womens-rights-can-mitigate-climate-impactshttps://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/economy-development-environment/the-climate-change-crisis-in-afghanistan-the-catastrophe-worsens-what-hope-for-action/https://cn.weforum.org/event_player/a0P68000001Kd0vEAC/sessions/afghanistan-the-day-afterCLIPS AND MUSICIntro: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/afghan-teenage-girls-cant-attend-schoolMusic from The Zohra Orchestra & thanks to Weforum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9-jqGuRDX8CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor: Ryan Nile Music by Cosmo SheldrakeOther sources: Amazon Frontlines & Artlist Artwork: Bethan Sherwood 

Who Cares Wins Presents Nemonte Nenquimo, the first in our special Extraordinary Women episodes.Nemonte Nenquimo is a Waorani woman, mother and leader, who has dedicated her life to the defence of Indigenous ancestral territory and cultural survival in the Amazon rainforest. She is the co-founder of the Indigenous-led nonprofit organisation Ceibo Alliance and its sister organisation Amazon Frontlines, the first female president of the Waorani organisation of Pastaza province, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America, the United Nations’ Champions of the Earth Award, BBC 100 Women of 2020 and TIME 100 most influential people in the world. And the ultimate environmental award… Nemonte had a brand new Ecuadorian Lizard species named after her.With thanks to: Ceibo Alliance & Amazon Frontlines. Links: PETITION: https://amazonfrontlines.org/campaigns/who-should-decide/ https://amazonfrontlines.org/partners/waorani/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10KLpj0MWUs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0tSGkYUBo&t=54s This episode was recorded in June 2020. To Follow updates on the ever evolving situation in Ecuador, please go to: https://amazonfrontlines.org/partners/waorani/ CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor: Ryan Nile Music by Cosmo SheldrakeOther sources: Amazon Frontlines & Artlist Artwork: Bethan Sherwood

Today Lily wants to take a more radical turn on this season’s topic, and share her conversation with renowned political commentator and Author, Douglas Murray. He has written several best selling books - such as The Madness of Crowds, and his most recent book, The War on the West and has been critical of our culture’s increasing focus on gender and race as a way to understand our history and ourselves - which he believes to be dividing our society.Is it possible to recognise the issues of race, gender, class and how they connect with inequities today - whilst not fuelling further division in society - but rather focusing on solutions towards the fairer world so many of us want to see?Who Cares Wins will be back in 2 weeks where we present the stories of some extraordinary women. In the meantime, we’ll leave you feeling hopeful and inspired with weekly drops of Reasons to Be Optimistic. See you then.CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor: Ryan NileMusic by Cosmo SheldrakeArtwork: Bethan Sherwood

Continuing our conversations on Fatherhood this week, Lily chats to Will McDonald from the Father's Institute. They describe themselves as the 'Father's think and do tank'. Will is so insightful into the reasons why having a male influence/ figure in a child's life will not only benefit the Father- child relationship but exponentially help the Mother as well; from helping with breastfeeding, giving equal paternity rights and for their own mental health and wellbeing. A fascinating listen!Links http://www.fatherhoodinstitute.org/https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/43/4/567/2630509?redirectedFrom=fulltext CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor: Ryan NileMusic by Cosmo SheldrakeArtworkBethan Sherwood

A delightful conversation to share with you today with Podcast royalty, Chris Sweeney. So far in this series of Who Cares Wins, we've heard many different female perspectives and in these next few episodes I want to dig into the male experience - of being queer, of Fatherhood, acknowledging privilege and why equality will benefit us all..Chris has taken the podcasting world by storm. Having founded the smash hit Homo Sapiens Podcast with Will Young, Chris Sweeney now hosts solo, inviting all conversations from the LGBTQ+ community, looking at the world from a queer perspective.Links https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/homo-sapiens/id1257514825CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor & Designer: Ryan NileMusic by Cosmo SheldrakeArtworkBethan Sherwood

Lily speaks to two globally influential women today. First, Chelsea Clinton, born into a political dynasty, daughter of Bill and Hillary, and now global health advocate. They discuss the impact of climate change disaster on existing gender inequalities in the USA, before we hear from the wonderful Ugandan youth activist Vanessa Nakate- who's country is hugely impacted by the effects of climate change. In 2021 she was named on the Time100 list and appeared on the cover…Links With thanks to the WeForum https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2022/sessions/setting-the-agenda-for-climate-action https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211103-the-countries-calling-for-climate-justice  https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2015/study-fracking-industry-wells-associated-with-premature-birthhttps://www.riseupmovementafrica.org/ CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor & Designer: Ryan NileMusic by Cosmo SheldrakeArtworkBethan Sherwood

Are you outraged or optimistic? Lily and Christiana Figueres hunt for Reasons to Be Optimistic in this ever changing world. CreditsMusic by Cosmo Sheldrake

What would be the environmental impact of having more women in positions of political leadership? Joining Lily today to explore this question amongst others, is a woman who has created monumental changes across the globe. Christiana Figueres has been at the forefront of international environmental policy, including as the lead negotiator of the Historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Christiana is a Costa Rican diplomat; the co-founder of Global Optimism; and co-host of the Outrage and Optimism podcast. CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor & Designer: Kit MilsomMusic by Cosmo SheldrakeArtworkBethan SherwoodLinkshttps://www.outrageandoptimism.org/http://christianafigueres.com/https://www.globaloptimism.com/ https://womendeliver.org/womensleadership/ https://www.actionaid.org.uk/our-work/emergencies-disasters-humanitarian-response/climate-change-and-gender https://www.jstor.org/stable/30044614

This week we look at some of the barriers to girl’s equal access to education and family planning. Joining Lily is an inspirational young activist from the UK. Outraged by the idea that one in ten girls were missing out on their education due to 'Period Poverty’, at the age of 17, Amika George started the #freePeriods Campaign. An activist, a change maker and author of 'Make it Happen', it's no surprise that she was named as one of Forbes 30 under 30 in the social impact category this year!We also hear from Douce Namwezi N'ibmba in Central Africa who is helping educate women on family planning and making menstrual products accessible for women in East Africa through her work with Uwezo Africa. Useful Links Amika George: Make it Happen - https://www.waterstones.com/book/make-it-happen/amika-george/9780008377601Douce Namwezi N'ibmba- Organisation Uwezo Africa - https://uwezoafrika.orgWhat If We Get It Right? hosts social impact entrepreneurs from around the globe. We’re starting conversations about how people can lead our world in a new direction and looking at where we may be getting it right. https://www.whatifwegetitright.com/CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor & Designer: Kit MilsomMusic by Cosmo SheldrakeArtworkBethan Sherwood

Joining Lily today is climate change veteran, Dr Katharine Wilkinson and we ask, why is the fight for gender equality essential if we want to mitigate climate change?Katharine is an author, strategist, teacher, and one of 15 “women who will save the world” according to Time magazine. She is co-founder and executive director of the All We Can Save Project, co-host of the podcast A Matter of Degrees and was the lead author on the world renowned Project Drawdown and Drawdown Review. Useful Links  The All We Can Save Project: https://www.allwecansave.earth All We Can Save anthology: https://www.allwecansave.earth/anthology All We Can Save Circles: https://www.allwecansave.earth/circles Signup for our monthly newsletter: https://www.allwecansave.earth/newsletter We also have a new Climate Wayfinding course: https://www.terra.do/climate-wayfinding-awcs/ Twitter & IG: @allwecansave @drkwilkinson Thank you to ongoing guidance and advice from She Changes Climate in this series. https://www.shechangesclimate.org/CreditsProducer: Kelsey Bennett Audio Editor & Designer: Kit MilsomMusic by Cosmo SheldrakeArtworkBethan Sherwood