Human Rights Articles

by Marelie Manders, Heidelberg IWC and Human Rights Team Co-Chair

One of the 12 critical concerns of the Beijing Platform for Action is Women in Armed Conflict. The Beijing Platform calls for, among other things, women’s full participation in conflict resolution. It also recognises women’s right to protection, as they are at particular risk of being targeted by violence...

• women peace and conflict

by Mary Adams (AWC The Hague)

At the February Human Rights Team meeting, Connie Phlipot launched a discussion about women in power and decision-making based on the recommendations from her working group’s review of the Beijing Platform for Action. Please refer to the Working Group Statement: Women in Power & Decision-Making. Statistics show that since 1995, women have made some...

• B+30
• women in power and decision-making
• matriarchal societies
• matrilocality

by Sheila Doucet, AAWE Paris

One’s senses are constantly solicited at COP. The 2024 UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan was no exception: handmade or industrial messages either screaming for immediate action or calmly stating a platitude for an inspirational vision of a future worth striving toward, carpeted passages muting footsteps as hundreds...

• COP29
• climate justice
• art and human rights

By Karen Castellon (FAWCO co-UN Liaison, FAUSA, AWC Berlin, AWAquitane), Mary Adams (AWC The Hague, Human Rights co-chair), Marelie Manders (Heidelberg IWC and Human Rights co-chair), and Laurie Richardson (AWA Vienna)

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence was launched in 1991 by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. The Center...

• human rights
• 16 days
• GBV

by Jody McBrien, AWG and AAWE Paris

Five or six years ago, I came across the organization NaTakallam, founded by Aline Sara, a young Lebanese woman who had just completed her master’s in International Affairs at Columbia University. NaTakallam means “we speak” in Arabic. It began as an online language exchange/learning program hiring refugees and asylum seekers to teach...

• climate refugees
• asylum seekers
• cultural exchange

By Marina LeGree, Founder and Executive Director, Ascend

Edited by Karen Castellon, FAWCO co-UN Liaison

Ascend, an NGO dedicated to empowering Afghan girls through education and community engagement, received a $4,000 grant from the FAWCO Foundation in 2021 to support its Sports for Health Teaching Curriculum. This project was aimed at promoting health, leadership, and life skills among Afghan...