Women Voices

Divas of Colour Women Voices, a global platform to shine a light on the key voices advocating for women, and leading the conversation on key women's issues

Your International Women’s Day and Month starts here!

Championing critical discourse during International Women’s Month. Women’s Voices provides the global platform for women to articulate their perspectives, challenge industry standards, and empower women to lead the global conversation.

What’s on this International Women’s Day?

A call to lead the conversation

Excellence is shared. As part of our IWD 2026 celebrations, we are opening our platform to women of colour who are breaking barriers and advancing the rights of women globally. This is your opportunity to publish your advocacy, share your strategic insights, and join an elite directory of global changemakers.

Become a Global Voice: Submit Your Profile and Advocacy

We invite experts, advocates, and leaders to contribute to the global discourse. Share your journey, your championing efforts, and your insights to inspire and drive systemic change.

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We are looking for sophisticated, high-impact contributions in the following formats:

  • Expert Advocacy Briefs: Share your insights on the critical issues you champion, from maternal health equity to corporate leadership.
  • Your growth Journey: Document your professional trajectory to inspire and equip other ambitious women of colour.
  • Letters to Our Daughters: A powerful, legacy-focused feature where you share strategic wisdom and hope with the future generation of leaders.

Your article or brief must also cover one or more of the following advocacy areas.

  • Cultural and marital rights
  • Professional advancement
  • Leadership
  • Maternal Health and wellbeing
  • Physical health
  • Mental Health
  • Safety (Violence against women)
  • Economic empowerment
  • Legal rights

Download our writing guideline, have your article ready before clicking the submit button.

Join us for the International Women’s Festival – The closing ceremony for the Month’s celebration

Divas of Colour Festival 2026: The International Women's Festival

Read our past Women Voices

  • Adeshola Akanji: My journey to empowerment

    Adeshola Akanji: My journey to empowerment

    As an individual with multiple long-term health conditions and disabilities, I have encountered considerable discrimination and stigma surrounding mental health and disabilities, which adversely affects my overall health and well-being. Neurodivergent individuals, such as myself, often face additional challenges, including the risk of misdiagnosis, particularly among women.

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  • Charity Moyo: My journey to empowerment

    Charity Moyo: My journey to empowerment

    I’ll never forget the day I discovered I’d been wearing the wrong bra size for years. Like so many women, I assumed discomfort was just part of the deal, especially having a fuller bust, until a proper bra fitting changed everything. I stood a little taller, breathed a little easier, and, for the first time…

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  • Women Voices 2024: Monique Farquharson

    Women Voices 2024: Monique Farquharson

    Monique Farquharson stands as an accomplished professional, seamlessly navigating diverse roles across teaching, business development, entrepreneurship, and consultancy. She has worked in Jamaica, Japan, the USA, and the UK and is a true Global trotter.

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  • Women Voices 2024: Oliva Nalwadda

    Women Voices 2024: Oliva Nalwadda

    Oliva Nalwadda is the Africa Youth Ambassador for the FIA Foundation, founder of UZIMA ARI Uganda (an NGO that empowers young people to lead local actions geared towards inclusive sustainable development), and a Youth Leadership Board Member of the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety established for the second UN Decade of Action for Road…

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  • Women Voices 2024: Queen Valencia Zulu

    Women Voices 2024: Queen Valencia Zulu

    Queen Valencia Zulu is a London-based Founder of WAPBRUNCH (Women Affirming our Power)& ZURIBLISS your go-to holistic hub. My motto is collaboration over competition, at WAP we represent sisterhood changing one narrative at a time.

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  • Women Voices 2024: Jennifer Potter

    Women Voices 2024: Jennifer Potter

    As a woman with a heart condition, I was told that I would never be able to run another marathon again… Over a decade, I trained and conditioned my body and in 2023, I ran the Boston Marathon.

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  • Women Voices 2024: Dr Kimberly Bey

    Women Voices 2024: Dr Kimberly Bey

    I am the CEO of Age Tomorrow Studio. We are an international brand. We have been servicing women and men with skincare issues for a decade. I am a medical aesthetician. I created my skincare and makeup line infused with organic and botanical ingredients. I launched my products in Birmingham, UK in 2018. I am…

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