Heidelberg IWC hosted the Region 5 meeting on November 7–9, 2025, welcoming 55 participants from 18 FAWCO Member Clubs. This included participants from ten Region 5 clubs: AIWC Cologne, AIWC Düsseldorf, AIWC Frankfurt, AWA Vienna, AWC Berlin, AWC Hamburg, IWC Leipzig, Munich IWC, IWC Moldova and of course Heidelberg IWC, with 15 participants!
The...
The Region 7 Meeting alternates between Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco. This year it was held in Casablanca. The theme was “Human Rights: Access to Technology and Safeguarding Women and Girls.” The morning speakers were Stephanie Willman Bordat and Wissal Khadrouf.
Stephanie is a human rights lawyer who founded an...
The International Women’s Club – Bogotá is delighted to announce that the City of Bogotá won big in Brazil! On November 5, the winners of the 2025 Earthshot Award were announced in Rio de Janeiro prior to the UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém. The City of Bogotá won in the Clean...
The International Women’s Club of Bogotá is proud to share some exciting news: the City of Bogotá has been selected as a Finalist for this year’s prestigious Earthshot Prize!
The winners will be announced in early November during the climate meetings in Rio de Janeiro, as part of the lead-up to...
What an amazing experience! The Region 6 Meeting was everything it was meant to be: engaging, inspiring, fun and relaxing. We started off by choosing the perfect venue – a family-run spa resort in the beautiful Lenzerheide region of Switzerland. No detail was too small for this resort to handle...
“Women & Democracy” was the theme of the FAWCO Region 5 Regional Meeting hosted by AWC Berlin November 15–17, 2024. The venue was DoubleTree by Hilton KuDamm and Jennifer Post Draeger served as Meeting Chair and Moderator.
AWC Berlin welcomed 52 participants from 15 FAWCO Member Clubs. This included participants from eight Region...
As we move from February to March, we are close to the end of Black History Month and the beginning of Women’s History Month. I thought it would be an excellent time to recognize a few of the extraordinary Black women who have fought to protect and strengthen both our communities and our future.
Sudden wealth is an exciting prospect for anyone. Maybe you’ve received a large inheritance, sold your business after a lifetime of hard work or cashed in on a family property. Whatever the source, there’s a temptation to start making big plans when a financial windfall comes your way.
UNHCR Greece Rep Ms Maria Clara Martin and Grace Christovasilis, FAWCO UN Team, at an exhibition of archival material documenting the longstanding cooperation between Greece and the UNHRC (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) on October 24, 2024, which is UN Day.
UNHCR Greece Rep Ms Maria Clara Martin and Grace Christovasilis, FAWCO UN Team,
When you asked us for writing workshops at the “Literacy is our Legacy-A Celebration” announcement during the March 2024 FAWCO Interim Meeting in Porto, we listened. And now through cooperation with one of the leading organizations for women writers, FAWCO is giving our writers access to...
If you’ve never attended the Fourth of July event at Rebild Bakker (the hills of Rebild near Aalborg in Northern Jutland, Denmark), you have missed out on a special event. The tradition of celebrating July Fourth in Denmark is unique. It goes back more than 100 years, as the first Fourth of July celebration...
Those of you who attended the Region 5 meeting hosted by AIWC Frankfurt in November 2022 may remember that you were given a pinecone with a tag indicating that a tree would be planted in the Taunus Forest near Frankfurt in your name. The project is the initiative of Irene Smetana,
2023 Region 4 Meeting
AWC Amsterdam
Making Grassroots Effort Blossom
Goatfarm Ridammerhoeve in the Amsterdam Forest
AWC Amsterdam was the host of the FAWCO Region 4 meeting in November 2023. After opening remarks from FAWCO and The FAWCO Foundation, Peninah Musyimi, founder and director of Safe Spaces Nairobi, took the stage to share her personal journey and...
The FAWCO Region 5 Meeting in Hamburg was by all accounts a great success. The Jufa hotel in the Hafen City is very welcoming and has great views of the harbor. The food was yummy, the speakers were terrific, the entertainment was fantastic, the tours were fun, and everyone had a good time.
The AWC...
Dr. Adora Obi Nweze, NAACP Florida State Conference President and NAACP National Board of Directors, moved members of FAWCO and FAUSA with her talk about book banning laws in Florida and other states, which amount to a war on diversity. Dr. Nweze spoke of the laws and their devastating impact on children’s rights to a proper education, particularly those from...
What an incredible time we had together – even the brutal Scottish rain couldn’t stop us! AWC Central Scotland came through once again with a little help from our friend Margie O’Rourke from AWC Dublin, who was right there with us making sure everything went smoothly. We had our welcome wagon out Friday night at the...
The women’s suffrage movement in the US is as old as the country. When the USA was created, white male landowners were given the right to vote. Other groups have had to continually fight for this right.1
I visited one memorial to the suffragists in...
Nine grants were awarded in five areas: Global Issues, Health, Education, Environment and Human Rights.
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Nine awards for further education were presented to members and children of members.
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For many FAWCO members returning to North America, repatriation may seem daunting. There’s the loss of your international lifestyle and the friends you’ve made, not only in your expat country, but through FAWCO events and activities. In addition, living overseas may change the way you view the world...