For an overview of the areas covered by FAWCO's Human Rights Team, read this article about the priority issues that UN Women is addressing: A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Empowerment: From the sidelines to the centre (by Lakshmi Puri, UN Women, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, May 2013). UNWomenOnWomensRights.pdf
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To read a UN Report on the crucial role of education in the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), click here.
From the report: "The MDGs with targets for 2015 crystallized the growing consensus which emerged during the 1990s, namely, that poverty reduction and the provision of basic social services need to be at the centre of development policy. Of...
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General background about the UN's priorities in the field of global education is here. "The Global Education First Initiative, launched last September by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, aims to put every child in school, improve the quality of learning, and foster global citizenship."
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The Global Issues Book Discussions began during the pandemic as a way for our members to connect across clubs, through books that relate to our four Global Issues Teams. The discussions are always lively and thoughtful. Here is a list of the books we have been reading over the last few years.
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The Education Team will inform FAWCO members...
25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, which end on 10 December (International Human Rights Day). FAWCO Human Rights sub-committee Ending Violence for Women and Children published ideas for clubs to raise awareness. Click here to download the sub-committee's newsletter with ideas.
FAWCO is pleased to announce the short list of nominees for the Target Project of our Human Rights for Women Target Program: 1) Women's Microfinance Initiative, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. submitted by: AWG Paris, Joan Burns, 2) Free The Girls: Fight Human Trafficking, Mozambique, Uganda, Kenya and El Salvador, submitted by: AW Surrey, Catherine Marland, 3) Project Dignity: Empowering Liberia's...
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