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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 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 ...



A Message of Support for Young People

Dear Young Leaders, Young people have always been a powerful force for innovation, collaboration, and progress, and your efforts continue to create meaningful impacts within your communities. We believe in the power of young people from all walks of life, backgrounds, and abilities. Every community is unique, and the most effective solutions emerge from within. ...



Global Youth Mobilization Calls for Intergenerational Action during 79th UNGA

On the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and the Summit of the Future, World YWCA and its partners in the Big Six Youth Organizations held a high-level roundtable under the Global Youth Mobilization initiative. Our call was clear: policymakers and global leaders must “walk the talk” by supporting youth engagement through ...