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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 ...
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 ...
Introducing ‘Voices of Hope, Actions for Peace’: An Inspiring New Film by World YWCA
We are excited to announce the World YWCA’s new documentary, ‘Voices of Hope, Actions for Peace, Women Driving Peace and Justice.’ Premiered earlier this month at Geneva Peace Week 2023, this documentary is about the strength and hope of young women in conflict zones. This powerful film is an integral part of our #BulletAndDove campaign, ...
World YWCA Statement on the Genocide in Gaza and the Implications on Women and Children
A statement of the World YWCA Board For decades, the world has been witnessing vicious wars and genocides conducted against several countries and the innocent civilians that are terrorized. These wars create humanitarian crises, lead to displacement and impoverishment of millions of people, and give birth to generational trauma – all this is based on ...
World YWCA Statement on Armenia
The YWCA Armenia seeks to bring the attention of the YWCA global movement, partner organizations, and worldwide supporters of safety and dignity – human rights – to the reality of children and women in Armenia. More than 120,000 Armenians of Artsakh, including 30,000 children, 2,000 pregnant women, and 20,000 elders, have been suffering from severe ...
World YWCA Statement on Israel-Hamas War
In 1920, the World YWCA World’s Committee, meeting in Champery, Switzerland made the following Statement of Peace: The World’s YWCA, including as it does women of all nations, shall give itself to the development of public opinion on international questions such as shall strengthen all those forces which are working for the avoidance of war ...
Empowering Youth for Global Change: The EU’s Partnership with Big Six Organizations
The European Commission and the world’s largest youth organizations, the “Big Six”, announced a partnership today to launch the EU Youth Empowerment Fund, to be implemented through the Global Youth Mobilization (GYM). It marks the first anniversary of the Youth Action Plan for EU External Action, the EU’s policy framework for a strategic partnership with ...
Join us for World YWCA Week Without Violence 2023
YWCA’s Week Without Violence is an annual global campaign held during the third week of October every year. For over 25 years, this campaign has been dedicated to raising awareness, promoting change, and enabling positive action to end violence against women, young women, and girls in all their diversity. Join us from October 16-21, 2023, ...
Cultivating Hope and Love in Solidarity – Week of Prayer 2023
Join us from 12 to 18 November As we approach the Week of Prayer and World Fellowship in 2023, we invite communities worldwide to come together from November 12 to 18 to reflect on the theme, ‘Seeds to Blossoms: Cultivating Hope and Love in Solidarity.’ This theme celebrates our unity within the global and intergenerational ...
Nagasaki and Hiroshima Peace Messengers Return to World YWCA
In a heartwarming revival of a tradition that spans over two decades, the World YWCA recently welcomed the Nagasaki and Hiroshima Peace Messengers back to its premises. After an absence of three years due to the challenges posed by the global pandemic, this visit marked a significant moment of reconnection, reflection, and a renewed commitment ...