This blog provides information about the Human Rights Target Program 2025-2028: Advancing Dignity, Equality and Freedom for Women and Girls.
Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.
~United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
July 30 marks the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This year’s theme looks at how victims are often engaged...
I began my research and service with world refugees in 2005 as a Ph.D. student. At that time, the UN estimated that there were roughly 20 million people of concern worldwide, including refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people and stateless people. That number seemed terrible to me.
Twenty years later, the 2025 UN consensus places this number at 117.8 million—ironically, the...
Our 2026–2028 Human Rights Target Project focuses on an organization that combats human trafficking of girls and women in Vietnam: Pacific Links Foundation’s program Power Her Path: Empowering Trafficking Survivors and Vulnerable Migrants to Thrive. The project helps girls and women in Vietnam who have survived human trafficking, forced labor...
Target Project 6–Power Her Path: Empowering Trafficking Survivors & Vulnerable Migrants to ThriveOrganization: Pacific Links Foundation
Location: Vietnam, focusing on Northern provinces bordering China
We are thrilled to announce Power Her Path as FAWCO’s Target Project 6.0, selected by FAWCO Member Clubs to advance the Human Rights theme: Advancing Dignity, Equality, and Freedom for...
FAWCO Target Program 6 focusing on Human Rights was announced at the Biennial Conference in Annapolis in March of this year, with the goal of supporting a transformative project that strengthens human rights for all and builds resilience, equality and freedom for women and girls, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Gender Equality) and other interconnected SDGs.
After several...
On December 2, 2025, I had the honor of hearing Malala Yousafzai be interviewed in Paris by Natalie Portman. I attended with several members of AWG and AAWE Paris and friends from my UU congregation. Now 28 years old, Malala has recently published her eighth book, Finding My Way, which is...
