by Danielle Kuznetsnov, AWO Moscow

It has been almost a month now since COVID-19 sent everyone home for an extended weekend. Thankfully, you and I have homes and families to be with during a time that feels uncertain at best. For the last few weeks, many families have been managing the schooling needs of their kids, as well as their...

by Adrianne George, AWC Gothenburg, AWC Malmö, AWC Stockholm

Author's goddaughter and her sisters being homeschooled. Credit: Christopher Plantener

Remember the days when you might have thought homeschooling was a concept only hippies or recluses could embrace? When you thought, “no way would I keep my kids home all day”? Does it seem like a long time ago that you...

FAWCO's four Global Issues Teams plus the Target Team invite you to join us for the first installment of your Global Issues Book Discussion Series!

The first book in our series is one that touches on all four of FAWCO's Global Issues and reflects the philosophy of FAWCO as a whole: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the...

Restrictions and disruptions to daily life have touched all of us in the FAWCO family. We sincerely hope you and yours are healthy and doing well. FAWCO wants to thank all the healthcare and essential workers  and their families for all they are doing and risking to help us through this crisis. There is a lot of confusion, stress and...

by Adrianne George Lind, AWC Gothenberg, AWC Malmö, AWC Stockholm

As Americans around the world prepare to go to the polls in person or via absentee ballot to elect the President of the United States in November, it is impossible to ignore the role women have played in American politics. Some names you must surely know, while others may...

by Mary Dobrian, AIWC Cologne

On March 21, FAWCO’s Target Team announced our Target Project – Health for 2020-2022: 

S.A.F.E. (Safe Alternatives for FGM Elimination), a project of HOPE for Girls and Women, Tanzania.

The project will 

• support Safe Houses for girls fleeing forced female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Mara region of Tanzania;
• provide healthcare and psychosocial counseling for...

In Geneva on February 25, 2020, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made the following statement (excerpted):

"The adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was a comprehensive expression of States’ commitments to the human rights of women and girls. One hundred and eighty nine countries pledged to achieve gender equality, in practice and in law, so that...

Living an Environmentally Considerate Life – What we can learn from growing up in the pre-consumer age

by Valerie Garforth (FAUSA)

We of the Baby Boomer generation have much to answer for when it comes to environmental impact, but we know how to live an environmentally considerate life – we just have to look back to our younger days,

By June Bechara, AWC Lebanon

What is pelvic organ prolapse? 

The "pelvic floor" is a group of muscles that form a kind of hammock across your pelvic opening. Usually, these muscles and the tissues surrounding them keep the pelvic organs in place. These organs include your bladder, uterus, vagina, small bowel and rectum.

Sometimes these muscles and tissue develop problems.

by Karen Castellon, AWC Berlin

Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans (right)March is Women’s History Month in the United States. We celebrate the achievements and contributions of women throughout history ‒ and not just the notables who you can already name off the top of your head.

Here in Germany, we celebrate the bravery of a young woman who was...