Takeaways from FAWCO’s Human Rights in Focus Event

Compiled and edited by Mary Adams, Karen Castellon and Therese Hartwell 

All event content (including videos of each session, speaker bios, and Event Booths) is available here: Human Rights in Focus Virtual Conference

Day 1: Thursday, November 4, 2021

1. The view on human rights is changing – we are growing, redefining and re-understanding that everyone deserves to live a...

Win-Win-Win Holiday Gift Giving

By: Environment Team members Anne van Oorschot, AWC The Hague; Ann Zulliger, AWC Zurich; Alexandra Vo, AWG Paris & FAUSA; Valerie Garforth, FAUSA; Jocelyn Fitzgerald, AILO of Florence; Christine Riney, AWC Hamburg; Renuka Matthews, FAUSA; Ayuska Motha, AIWC Cologne; Meenakshi Advani, AIWC Mumbai; Amanda Drollinger, AWC Central Scotland

With Thanksgiving behind us and December just around the corner, the task...

CITES – Part II

by Adelina Matinca, AIWC Cologne

Brief Accounts from the Field in Northeastern Namibia

As I wrapped up my MA thesis entitled “Human-Wildlife Conflict in Northeastern Namibia: CITES, Elephant Conservation and Local Livelihoods,” I began to ask myself how many people actually know about CITES or elephant conservation and the impact they both have on local livelihoods. Many of you might...

What will you do? Human Rights in Focus Event Wrap-up

by Karen Castellon, AWC Berlin, Human Rights Team Chair

On November 4, 5 & 6, 2021, the FAWCO Human Rights Team hosted Human Rights in Focus, a 3-day virtual event on the Hopin platform. The Team marked the fifth anniversary of FAWCO and The FAWCO Foundation’s Symposium, Stand Up for Human Trafficking, in The Hague (2016) and were inspired...

The Medicalization of FGM: Is it Harm Reduction or a Human Rights Abuse?

To write a blog on the medicalization of female genital mutilation was not easy! There are vast numbers of articles dedicated to the topic. I therefore decided to keep the blog short and to include several interesting articles that you can read following this short introduction. 

The UNFPA describes the medicalization of female genital mutilation (FGM) as “situations in which...

Refusing Plastic

by Alexandra Vo, AWG Paris & FAUSA (with help from members of FAWCO's Environment Team)

The “soap situation”

A few months ago, I bought the new Costco brand soap in a rectangular package of 16 bars. Although we are only a family of four, I like the idea that buying in bulk means less packaging. Living in the suburbs where I need...