You are aging. Yes, YOU. The symphony of your life begins the moment you arrive on this earth. As the composer and conductor, you have the pen and the baton in your hand, with the ability to control how you age and direct your personal well-being. Every musical score...
Susan James (Jessie) Rodell
December 8, 1945 – January 18, 2021
Recenty, the sad news reached many of us that Jessie had passed away after months, if not years, fighting cancer. We, as AWC members (or former members) have wonderful memories of Jessie’s active years at the AWC of The Hague, as...
“Guided by empathy borne of my own experience, I gradually began to see the systemic nature of women’s suffering and its impact on all of us. Finally, I began to see the problem as patriarchy and feminism as the antidote.”
This excerpt is from Peter Pruyn’s book, Up: One...
The world is changing, and reducing our individual waste is critical for each of us. This includes newborn babies. They don’t know they 
Amanda’s daughter, Rivaare causing the production of huge amounts of non-recyclable waste just by wearing disposable diapers. Luckily, the solution already exists and has improved in recent years to be very easy...
A young black woman, the mother of five and wife of a tobacco farmer visited Johns Hopkins Hospital complaining of vaginal bleeding. It was 1951, and when a tumor was found and a biopsy taken she had no way of knowing that history would be changed forever.
The...
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed education, from how schools are teaching to employment prospects of young graduates. From a report published by Decent Jobs for Youth (2020), the crises faced by youth before the pandemic have been exacerbated and will now result in long-lasting severe impacts on employment, education, mental well-being, rights and social...
Since 2016, UNESCO has published the Global Education Monitoring Report - Gender Report. This year’s report explores 25 years worth of efforts for gender equality in education. From the Foreword:
Those working in the education sector know that the way we respond to the COVID-19 pandemic today will have implications for years –
Plastic waste. It’s everywhere – from the depths of the oceans to the peaks of mountains. Even before COVID-19, the volume of plastic per day going into the ocean by weight was equivalent to 90 aircraft carriers. This is the speed at which we are destroying the ocean. According to UN Secretary-General António Guterres,
Now more than ever, it is critical that we shine a spotlight on how we support our learners and teachers as they work to bridge the gap from secondary to post-secondary learning and/or careers. SDG Targets 4.3, 4.4 and 8.6 set lofty goals for this focus, and we are happy to share stories and resources...
