• smoking
• tobacco

Many of us probably grew up with a parent, an aunt or uncle or a grandparent who smoked, and have seen the significant impact that this had on the lives of people around us. Well-known smokers include Winston Churchill, who famously said, “My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol...

 by Mary Dobrian, AIWC Cologne

Have you ever witnessed someone being harassed? Most of us have. Maybe it was someone making a “joke” about another person’s race, ethnicity or gender identity, or a classmate being bullied on the playground – or maybe it was something more severe.

Often when we notice harassment we have an impulse to step in...

by Mary Adams, AWC The Hague & Therese Hartwell, FAUSA

The Facts

In June 2018, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published a research report with the findings that “women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) endure the highest rate of sexual harassment of any profession outside of the military.” 

In November 2018, seven STEM female...

• Responsible consumption
• sustainable living
• recycling
• SDG9

by Jocelyn Fitzgerald, AILO of Florence

There is more clothing being sold than ever before, which, in turn, results in an ever-growing mountain of discarded clothing. After the oil and gas industries, the textile industry is widely believed to be the most polluting industry on the planet, responsible for 10% of total CO₂ emissions. While buying fewer clothes is the...

by Elizabeth López-Rigaudeau, AWC Zürich

Dear Lisa & Jean-Paul,

Hello. How are you? I hope everything is OK by your side…We are safe from the pandemic at first and now because of the war I hope everything will be restored so we can go back to school. I want to appreciate and I am great full for the never ending...

by Mary Adams, AWC The Hague

Most of us feel like we have been in prison during the pandemic. Teenagers, especially, feel isolated and alone because they are out of school, bored and restless. Has it ever crossed your mind to wonder about the impact of the pandemic on youth in prison? Would you agree that the power of...