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Unveiling the World YWCA Day 2024 Toolkit: Resist, Reclaim, Revolutionise
As we edge closer to World YWCA Day on 24th April 2024, the anticipation and excitement within our community grow. This year, we stand at a pivotal juncture, marking nearly two centuries of relentless advocacy, community engagement, and the promotion of gender equality by the YWCA movement. It’s a reflection of our collective resilience and ...
The Impact of Conflict on Women’s Health and Well-being: A #BulletAndDove Webinar
The World YWCA’s Bullet and Dove Initiative is hosting an essential webinar to spotlight the critical challenges that women and girls encounter in conflict zones across regions such as the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and others. This event is dedicated to uncovering the severe impact these conflicts have on their health and well-being ...
Solidarity Beyond Borders: #WorldDayofPrayer for Palestine 2024
On Monday, 4th March, the World YWCA joined ecumenical partners and friends to observe the World Day of Prayer, which this year, focused on Palestine. The hybrid event, themed “I Beg You… Bear With One Another In Love,” transcended borders to underscore the critical need for unity amidst the ongoing violence and oppression in Gaza. ...
Empower Your Grant Proposals: Join us for the Feminist Funding Training
We’re organising a special training session with the support of YGlobal and Norwegian Church Aid specifically for women and young women to help you understand feminist funding and learn how to apply for grants like a pro. Grassroots gender practitioners worldwide face a funding challenge. According to research by Frida The Young Feminist Fund, and ...
Join us for 16 Days for Activism: Investing in the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls
Join us from November 25th to December 10th for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an annual international civil society-led campaign. Starting on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and concluding on Human Rights Day, it highlights violence against women as a pervasive breach of human rights worldwide. Originating ...
The virtual Global Youth Summit
The virtual Global Youth Summit (23 – 25 April), organised by the six world’s largest youth organisations*, brought together young people, leaders, policy makers and changemakers to fix everything that has been broken during COVID-19 and share and agree solutions. The Summit promoted the talents, creativity and connectedness of young people aged 14-30, and of course, we ...
World YWCA Day 2021: A Celebration of #YWCALeaders
Every year on April 24, YWCAs around the world celebrate World YWCA Day. For 160 years, YWCA leaders and pioneers have taken action in communities to make human rights a reality. In 2020, YWCA has been building strong, powerful and humble advocates and fighters who have supported those around and promoted sisterhood every time, especially during a crisis. ...
This #InternationalWomensDay2021, World YWCA Invites All to Sign a Pledge to Support LGBTIQ Women and Marginalised Genders!
At World YWCA, we stand for inclusion and safety of LGBTIQ people. We know that women and people of marginalised genders and sexualities share commonality of oppression by patriarchy, with the added intersectional experiences of race, geographical location, religion, culture, class and colonisation. World YWCA has been fighting for gender equality for over a century, ...
World YWCA Delegation at the Virtual CSW65
A diverse delegation of more than 50 leaders are joining the World YWCA to actively engage at the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women taking place from 15 to 26 March 2021. Given the unique circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, CSW65 will be drastically different compared to other years. Most of the events will be held ...