“Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the...

• Responsible consumption
• SDG12
• conservation

By Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg

All-pervasive
Palm oil is found in almost everything we use or eat every day. It is in day-to-day items where you wouldn’t even think to look for it, but there it is anyway – cookies, pizza, shampoo, soap, margarine, biofuel, cooking oil, peanut butter, washing detergent, chocolate, ice cream and even lipstick. And the list...

• SDG13
• climate action
• energy

by Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague

Sustainable Innovation Forum 2020

COP26 has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we cannot postpone the climate emergency! Momentum has to be not only maintained, but intensified. That is the key message of the virtual meetings that took place at this interesing  Sustainable Innovation Forum on November 16–20. Many interesting speakers from...

by Rozanne Van Rie, AWC Antwerp and FAWCO VP Member Clubs

Advance Care Planning 

We have a huge opportunity!

Through conversations, we can transform the possibilities for the last chapters of our lives...

Not just our own, but for our loved ones, whether they are living in the next city or – as is often the case for expat women – across an ocean!

There are still 3+ solid weeks to plan for the 16 Days of Activism to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence.

Now is the time, and the Human Rights Team offers many resources and ideas in a folder here.

Join us, and give voice and empowerment to women and girls and their allies worldwide.

by Sue England, Munich IWC and Karen Castellon, AWC Berlin and Human Rights Team Chair

The cause of our time: ending violence against women?

The convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence is called the Istanbul Convention. It was agreed to in 2010 and came into force in 2014. 

Quick facts about the Istanbul Convention: 

• It...

by Danielle Kuznetsov, AWO Moscow & Health Team Co-Chair

One hundred years have seemed to go by since I wrote this article in September 2019. COVID-19 has completely changed the world, how we live, and how we go about our business. 

This article highlights the work of the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe and the positive effect grassroots mental health endeavors...

by Mary Adams, AWC The Hague

‟Never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”          ~ Rahm Emanuel

The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history,

by Keziah Watatua, AWA Kenya

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how...

Contributions solicited by the Education Team

The Education Team focus for October and November is Equal Access, which encompasses SDG Targets 4.2 & 4.5. Our October ‟Notes from the Field” focus on the ‟S” and ‟T” of STEM Education: Science and Technology – traditionally fields where girls and women have been discouraged from entering, thereby denying them equal access to a...