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Faith to Action Network’s vision for the YW4A programme is that social norms and practices by community actors and faith organisations are shifted towards promoting young women’s rights to dignity, bodily integrity, and equal participation in decision-making. Faith to Action Network brings to the programme its experience and understanding of religion as a salient aspect ...

World YWCA recognizes the war being waged on Ukraine.  The invasion by land, sea, air and cyber attack against Ukraine has put the lives of Ukrainians yet again in great peril. The YWCA Ukraine, for years, has been affected by on-going tension and conflict and today, we hear from women expressing fear, shock and anger. ...

YWCA Palestine is leading the implementation of the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability (YW4A) programme in Palestine.  Their strength is in engaging and mobilising young women, women’s rights organisations and faith partners to strengthen civil society in the country, and galvanise action to influence policies and legislation that promotes women’s rights. In the ...

Intergenerational Action: Co-Creating a World Free from Gender-Based Violence The 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is a global international campaign annually held between 25 November and 10 December to bring awareness on violence against women (VAW). This year, the dates will be used globally as an opportunity to raise awareness and advocacy around ...

YWCA Kenya, the YW4A Country Lead in Kenya, brings to the programme expertise and experience grounded in working with young women and a diversity of women’s rights networks and allies. These organizations vary from community to regional levels of decision-making, including the faith sector in the country and East Africa region.  Through the YW4A programme, ...

In the YW4A programme, Ibrahimia Media Centre (IMC) is co-leading implementation in Egypt with YWCA Egypt, while working to build the leadership and management capacities of local partner women’s rights organisations. In addition, through its convening power of faith actors, IMC will facilitate challenging of gender-discriminatory norms in faith institutions, and engage men to challenge ...

Intergenerational Action for Gender-Based Violence (GBV): Co-Creating the Future For 25 years, the World YWCA has hosted an annual global campaign, held in the third week of October, to raise awareness, promote change and enable positive action towards ending violence against women, young women, girls and other marginalised genders.  This year, between October 18-24, we ...

Join us to observe and engage in the World YWCA–YMCA Week of Prayer and World Fellowship from 7- 13 November 2021 under the theme: “Beauty from Brokenness“. While the ongoing global pandemic continues to impact our everyday lives and present new changes and challenges, the World Week of Prayer’s theme invites us to reflect on the process of healing and restoration. Inspired by the ...

As a founding member of the Global Youth Mobilization and a global women’s rights movement, we are happy to sign the #UnlockDeclaration. A statement for the 76th session of the UN General Assembly In the week that global leaders gather for the opening of the UN General Assembly, along with key partners, we commit to ...

Women and girls remain most impacted by the manifestation of patriarchy, conflict and oppression of human rights. World YWCA is closely following the situation with grave concern. Afghan women and girls have played a pivotal role throughout the country’s history. As a movement with 165 years of history of working together for peace and justice, ...