Ongoing Plans for 16 Days Campaign
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign has come and gone, and the Human Rights Team hopes that you had a chance to participate. If not, you still have plenty of time, as the Team is trying something new with a full year’s concentration on the 16 Days theme throughout 2019. Although the specific theme...
FAWCO/FAUSA Members “Orange the World” for the 16 Days Campaign
No one observes the 16 Days Campaign quite like Maggie Palu. This year, Maggie urged members of her French conversation group, English conversation group, the Montpellier Ceilidh Dancers, the Montpellier Scottish dance group AND the AWG Languedoc-Roussillon Book Group to wear orange and serve orange treats. These actions prompted questions, allowing...
As holiday shopping begins, be sure to consider the impact of your shopping choices. Take a look at the following shopping guides to help you buy responsibly. Avoid purchasing items from countries known to use child or forced labor. Check out this list produced by the US Department of Labor.
Ethical Shopping Guide from Free the Girls--this guide from the previous...
The Human Rights Team's new FAWCO Refugee Network (FRN) offers an opportunity for FAWCO/FAUSA Clubs and Members to inspire each other, share resources and collaborate across club borders in support of the new neighbors in our communities who have arrived from distant and often dangerous places to begin new lives.
We invite all interested FAWCO/FAUSA members and groups to join this new network by...
The 2018 Effecting Change for Women & Children Development Grant in the Human Rights category, funded by FAUSA, was awarded to The Pillow Project to Stop Child Trafficking, a project of the Stahili Foundation, based in Murang'a County, Kenya. The project was nominated by AWC The Hague, which has been supporting the organization for four years. Stahili means...
In April, 22 FAWCO/FAUSA members visited the Collateral Repair Project Community Center to witness firsthand the way CRP is using the funds from the FAWCO Target Project, Hope Beyond Displacement. One of my favorite aspects of HBD has always been the gender-based violence (GBV) awareness portion.
