Johanna (AWC The Hague) was born in Japan into a career military family and moved several times during her youth until the family returned home to Texas. She earned a BBA with a concentration in Human Resource Management from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and worked for Fluor Corporation in all aspects of human resources. She eventually managed space utilization...
Date: 3 – 15 March 2013
Location: In and around the United Nations, New York
Program: 57th Commission on the Status of Women: elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls
Format: Multiple sessions, side events (128) and parallel events (350)
Organization: UNWomen and NGO CSW, member states (131), working groups, civil...
On February 13 members of the AWC Hamburg together with representatives from Coco-Mat, a recognized leader for natural sleep products, presented heart pillows for breast cancer patients to the Mammazentrum Hamburg in the Jerusalem Hospital. 100 pillows came directly from Coco-Mat and 32 were handmade by members of the Stitch N Bitch group of the AWCH.
The heart-shaped pillows are...
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On March 18, 2013, to honor National Women's History Month, the US Embassy in Vienna Public Affairs Department, AWA Vienna and FAWCO drew attention to the issue of female oppression by sex trafficking and forced prostitution.
After the screening of a segment on prostitution in India from the PBS documentary “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,”
