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World YWCA Statement of Support of YWCA Korea Call for Solidarity for the Victims of Japanese Military “Comfort Women”
October 6, 2025 The World YWCA supports YWCA Korea’s call for the solidarity of Korean citizens, the global movement, partner organisations, and international allies. We join them in urging the Korean government to take action through legal reform, recognition and accountability, and a renewed commitment to justice, peace, and solidarity for the victims of Japanese ...
Systemic Gaslighting Obscures Genocide: World YWCA Calls for Urgent Accountability
October 3, 2025 Systemic gaslighting*. That is what has been happening in Gaza and continues unabated. Non-combatants, human rights defenders, and humanitarian aid workers continue to be targeted, obstructed, and silenced. And, doxed, harassed, and violated across cyber boundaries. These direct violations of all international norms and protections, intended to uphold established global norms and ...
World’s Largest Youth Movements and UN Youth Office Forge Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Youth Leadership Worldwide
The United Nations Youth Office and the ‘Big Six’ Youth Organizations have announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate youth leadership and action toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The partnership, built on a shared commitment to invest in and further the Global Youth Mobilization, will be publicly launched during the High-Level Week of the ...
Digital Campaigns and Graphics Intern
WE ARE HIRING! The World YWCA is looking for a feminist, creative, and solutions-driven Digital Campaigns and Graphics Intern (DCGI) to develop content to amplify the voices of young women and women across our movement. This paid opportunity is essential to ensuring that our advocacy, upcoming campaigns, and strategic engagements align with YWCA’s values, branding guidance, and initiatives. The intern will ...
Call for Applications: World YWCA Leadership Cohort 2025
Apply today! Are you a young person involved with a local/national/regional YWCA advocating for women’s rights? Then this call is for you! Women’s and young women’s leadership is at the centre of everything we do, which is why the World YWCA is pleased to announce an open call for the Leadership Cohort 2025! Through this hands-on six-month ...
#BulletAndDove Listening Sessions: Under Genocide: An Intergenerational Crisis in Palestine
Join us for our next listening session, as part of the #BulletandDove Listening Sessions series spotlighting the conflict in Gaza. Following our last session, where we focused on the challenges faced by young people, particularly young women and girls, our conversation continues as we centre the voices of community leaders and their lived experiences through the occupation and ...
Call for Interest: World YWCA: EU Youth Empowerment Fund Powered by Global Youth Mobilization
Subissmion of Expression of Interest for Network Solutions Grants YEF- GYM 2.0 Round 2 The World YWCA is excited to announce a “Call for Interest” for the Network Solutions arm of the partnership with the European Commission and the Big Six youth organisations, supporting youth-led solutions that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through ...
Call for Consultancy: Transforming Power Through Language: A Research Exploration Across Intergenerational Realities.
The World YWCA seeks proposals from interested individuals or groups to conduct research focused on understanding and unpacking the gendered dimensions of language including but not limited to, where language holds masculine and feminine articles; where language is an ongoing tool of colonization, particularly English and European languages; conveying meaning and transformative feminist values through ...
604 YOUTH-LED PROJECTS SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE RECEIVING FUNDING THROUGH THE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FUND
Across the globe, 604 youth-led projects reaching an estimated 427,500 people in underserved communities will be awarded €1.2 million through the Youth Empowerment Fund (YEF) via its Youth-led solutions through the Big Six Network’s call. A partnership of the European Union (EU) and Big Six Youth Organizations (Big Six), implemented by the Global Youth Mobilization (GYM) – the YEF ...
World YWCA Statement of Support of YWCA USA on the United States One Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1)
YWCA USA CEO Margaret Mitchell issued a statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the so-called One Beautiful Bill Act, which passed with a vote of 218-214 along political party lines, and “Sets in motion innumerable transactions that will have negatively transformational consequences”, says World YWCA CEO/GS Casey Harden. “World YWCA ...