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International Youth Day – 12 August 2021

6 ways we are truly a young women’s  movement: The World YWCA is a grassroots-driven, global movement rooted in the leadership of women, young women, and girls. Truly centred on young women and girls, when #YoungWomenLead, we transform the world for the better: Our Goal 2035 is bold and transformative: We aim to reach 100 million young women ...



Boosting Young Women’s Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability (YW4A) in Africa and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Through the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A)  programme, the World YWCA is focusing on multi-sectoral partnerships, especially around faith, in four countries; Palestine, Egypt, South Sudan and Kenya. YW4A aims to strengthen and diversify young women’s participation and amplify their voices, to effectively influence decision-making towards gender-just policies, laws and practices related ...



A Call to Advance Action Towards the Bejing Platform for Action to Achieve Gender Equality

As 32 religious actors and networks of faith-based organisations, who are working to achieve the Platform for Action, we want to reconfirm our role and share our recommendations.  These organisations aim to re-energise religious actors from all faiths to make sure it happens. In 1995, 189 countries adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a bold ...



A Life Changing Opportunity: World YWCA Young Women Leadership Cohort 2021

We are pleased to announce that the Young Women Leadership Cohort Programme 2021 is now open for applications! This year’s programme will provide an opportunity for up to ten young women from the YWCA movement to experience the international community-building, work and reach of the World YWCA. Building on the programme’s success and learnings in 2020, and ...



World YWCA’s #BulletAndDove Panel

From Solidarity and Peace Resolutions to Reality on the Ground Watch the Panel: In this first edition of the #BulletAndDove panels, we discussed: dive deeper to understand the contexts, stories, and realities on the ground of Palestine, Armenia, and Japan, while elaborating on peacebuilding and advocacy efforts led by #YWCAleaders. address the role that solidarity and ...



Five New Projects, One Big Impact: Youth Leadership for COVID-19

World YWCA announces the five grantees of the Global Youth Mobilization’s National Project Funding  Driving change through the activation of youth by funding Big 6 national organisations and networks is at the heart of the Global Youth Mobilization (GYM). By critically supporting and sustaining investments in youth and taking action for response and recovery of ...



World YWCA Call to Action: End the Occupation of Palestine

World YWCA joined YWCA Palestine in calling for an end to the forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah, and related violations of human rights and violence, by taking one of four actions listed in the full YWCA Palestine statement. The YWCA further expressed its concern regarding the military attacks and excessive force used by the Israeli ...



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 ...