Mary Manning
3rd VP for Global Issues
FAWCO is proud to be a non-governmental organization with special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, a status supported by the work of our Global Issues Teams.
FAWCO's Resolutions and Recommendations for 2021 - 2023 establish our commitment to improve the lives of women and girls worldwide, especially in the areas of education, the environment, health and human rights. Therefore, our Global Issues Teams focus on these four issues.
The Global Issues Teams serve as a resource for our members. As you read the information in these pages, you might decide to get involved in one of the Teams. Join our team; pursue your passions.
Welcome to our new UN Youth Rep, Vali Mitsakis. Vali is from Greece; her mother is a member of AWO Greece. She was active with the Model UN in high school, and she's spending a year in New York, where she's keeping very busy going to UN meetings and learning about the UN's post-2015 sustainable development agenda.
FAWCO's first UN Youth Rep was Gavin Higbie (pictured below at UN Headquarters in New York, third from left). Gavin is the son of Erica Higbie (FAUSA, AWC Perth) who is an active FAWCO volunteer; she serves as our UN Rep in New York and as the Chair of the Human Rights Team.
Gavin attended UN meetings live in New York and via Webcast throughout 2014 and reported via a blog. He attended the UN Youth Assembly on February 5 and 6, 2014 and posted blogs about his experiences.
This is a great way for your club's teenagers to engage in global issues and get involved with other FAWCO youths. Please encourage your club's teenagers to check our Youth Program webpages.
To follow Gavin's UN Youth Rep Blog, click here.
By Samuel Witt (son of Susan Witt, AWC Hamburg)
Hi everyone! My Name is Sammy and I had the enormous pleasure of representing FAWCO at the UN Youth Assembly. I thought I should make use of the opportunity of being in New York and so I arrived a week early. During this week I looked at all the fine art...
FAWCO UN Youth Reps attend UN Youth Assemblies, the ECOSOC Youth Forum, and other youth-related conferences and meetings at the UN in New York. To learn more, read their blogs about their experiences at the UN.
In Fall 2017, FAWCO's UN Youth Rep was Sammy Witt, son of Susan Stanley-Witt (AWC Hamburg). In Summer 2017, Paige Higbie (daughter of Erica...
By Vali Mitsakis
A briefing organized by Department of Public Information of the United Nations with a panel speaking about the seventy years of the United Nations.
While I was walking towards the conference room where the celebration was being held, I couldn’t help myself from thinking ‘What’s next?” I knew that I was going to hear a panel speak...
By Vali Mitsakis
A briefing organized by Department of Public Information of the United Nations
This briefing focused on the use of technology in order to enhance teaching methods and student experiences in primary and secondary school classrooms. It is almost impossible to contemplate the changes that have occurred since I attended primary and secondary schools ten years or so...
CSW59 – WEEK 1
Hello FAWCO members! My name is Valia Mitsakis and I’m the new FAWCO United Nations Youth Representative. In this blog I’m going to be covering many youth-related meetings and events that were organized by youth organizations across the globe for this year’s Commission on the Status of Women. This means that the past few days I’ve been meeting...
