UN Geneva Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations RoomThe 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council opens on Monday, February 24, 2020 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Council’s main page provides an overview of the next four weeks of meetings. The kickoff on Monday is the “High Level Segment,” in which key representatives...
FAWCO supports the work of our partner, Pathways to Safety International, which offers services to Americans abroad who may encounter violence in any form – in the home, the workplace or stranger violence. The mission of Pathways to Safety is “We educate Americans traveling and living abroad, giving them tools to stay informed about...
There is no doubt that we are all exposed to serious threats due to the continuous rise in temperature on our planet. This statement indicates the horror and fear of the upcoming repercussions of global warming. According to some experts and scientists, that is the reality we all have to admit to and thus face...
The more that women are involved in decision-making, the more environmental protection measures are supported and/or initiated. Since the majority of our society’s decision-making has historically been male-dominated, it is exciting to consider what types of decisions might be made in the...
We all love to see happy mothers and their smiling babies, but pregnancy and childbirth are often difficult and dangerous. They have become much safer for women: for example, maternal deaths are now expressed as the number per 100,000 live births – in contrast to newborn deaths, which are expressed as the number...
Some forty delegates attended the FAWCO regional meeting at the Churchill Club in Casablanca on Saturday January 18. This included our FAWCO president, Emily van Eerten (AWC The Hague) and 2nd VP Member Clubs, Rozanne Van Rie (AWC Antwerp). A sizeable group came from the Rabat club and two members from AIWA...
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away…”* While a 2015 study by researchers from Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan found no evidence that this old Welsh proverb was true – adult consumers of one small apple per day had the same number of physician visits as those who did...
From December 2 to 15, representatives from around the world gathered in Madrid, Spain to attend and negotiate at the COP25. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the body where decisions are made for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This was the 25th year of negotiations to prevent "dangerous" human interference...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one of the most common and dangerous forms of violence against women and includes physical, sexual and emotional abuse and controlling behaviors by an intimate partner (WHO). The UN estimates that nearly one third of women worldwide will experience violence from an intimate...
