Global Issues Teams

Human Rights. FAWCO's current Target Project addresses the topic. We talk intensely about human rights, but thankfully, most of us have never experienced a severe deprivation of our own human rights, and probably few of us know people who have.  As much as we might care about the topic, most of our experience of the issue is indirect and...

Through the “Weaving a Global Safety Net for American Victims – A Call to Men & Women” initiative, Paula Lucas of Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVC) will be traveling to several European and Middle Eastern countries this spring to present the worldwide model she created to help victims. Interested volunteers will have the opportunity to meet directly with...

This campaign began in 2010 in neighboring countries Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had been torn apart by some of the worst atrocities of war that the world has seen in recent years. Women from opposing sides of war in these communities came together on a bridge joining the two countries in a plea for peace and...

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On November 28, 2014, the American Graduate School in Paris (AGS - www.ags.edu) will host an international conference on the theme “Fighting Violence Against Women”, organized on the occasion of the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25).

This conference will bring together policy-makers, diplomats, NGO leaders, lawyers, journalists, scholars, and human rights activists from around...

Did you know that during World War II, the Japanese government systematically conscripted into “sex servitude” an estimated 300,000 poor and impoverished Taiwanese, Korean and other women through deception, abduction, and violence? If not, you are not alone; the existence of these sex slaves was only uncovered in 1992 when incriminating telegrams were discovered in the files of Japan's Defense...