Ascend Athletics is a global not-for-profit organization working in Afghanistan to empower young women through mountaineering-based leadership training. Recipients of a 2021 FAWCO Foundation Development Grant to create health materials for their target population of young women and their families, Ascend pivoted in August 2021 to assist its participants and their families in fleeing...
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
The view on human rights is changing – we are growing, redefining and re-understanding that everyone deserves to live a...
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...
FAWCO is bringing Human Rights in Focus during an online event from November 4–6, 2021. Our goal is to raise awareness of human rights issues for women and girls, discuss advocacy and actions you can take, and highlight the impact that both international and national member clubs have made through volunteerism, fundraising and campaigns. Check out the AGENDA. Each day’s sessions focus on a different theme:
Armed conflicts have a dire effect on the lives of women and girls where they take place. Women often suffer in unique ways, which unfortunately include experiencing sexual and gender-based violence in addition to the loss of relatives and economic security. In these situations, International Criminal Law plays a key role in ensuring that...
At the end of the Global Issues Book Discussion on International Literacy Day, September 8, the Human Rights Team announced its selection for FAWCO’s next global read. The book chosen is The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future by Fawzia Koofi.
Fawzia Koofi was one of 23 children born...
