Campaigns
This section features campaigns and initiatives on issues important for the World YWCA. Take action and support the priority advocacy areas of the YWCA movement. Make your voice heard!
Nairobi 2007 Call to Action on HIV and AIDS
Sign the Pledge to Action and commit to create and sustain change for women and girls, particularly those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS.
Week Without Violence
Imagine a week without violence. Imagine women walking the streets at night without fear. Imagine police officers without guns. Imagine female genital mutilation, domestic violence and rape as faded memories of a long gone era.
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day, December 1, is one of the most recognised international health days and a key opportunity to raise further awareness in communities and across the world about the state of the pandemic and critical next steps that must be taken to halt its spread.
16 Days of activism
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University in 1991.
Say NO – UNiTE
Say NO – UNiTE — A Call to Action to End Violence against Women in Our Lifetime!
STAND UP Against Poverty
The United Nations (UN) Millennium Campaign launched Stand Up in 2006 as a global advocacy effort to set an official Guinness World Record - the greatest number of people ever to STAND UP Against Poverty.
GEAR
In 2006, women from all over the world pressured the United Nations to add the reform of its gender equality bodies on the agenda of its reform process. The GEAR Campaign, a network of more than 310 civil society organisations, was formally launched in 2008 to follow up this process.