Showing posts from: News

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 ...

The YWCA Haiti calls for the solidarity of the YWCA global movement, partner organisations, and worldwide support for lasting peace and humanitarian support. World YWCA movement and leaders have a long and constant history of responding to conflict and post-conflict situations, and demanding the protection of the human rights of internally displaced people, especially girls, ...

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. For this Week Without Violence 2024, ...

The World YWCA calls on YWCA leaders and all global citizens, especially those not living in crisis in the Middle East, including allies of countries directly involved, to exert immediate pressure on Israel and all other parties involved to stop this war that has already produced thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries, ...

The YWCA Lebanon calls for the solidarity of the YWCA global movement, partner organisations, and worldwide support for lasting and equitable peace. Mona Khauli, National Executive Director of YWCA Lebanon, shares: “At a time when Lebanon is facing an unprecedented economic collapse, Israel’s massive offensive launched on Monday has resulted in the tragic loss of ...

Microgranting Opportunity for Young Individuals and Youth-led organisations The European Union and the Big Six Youth Organisations are proud to announce the launch of the OPEN CALL for applications to the EU Youth Empowerment Fund through the Global Youth Mobilization, a joint initiative aimed at empowering young people to contribute to the achievement of the ...

On November 29th each year, the World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) and its member association, the YWCA of Palestine, unite in urging individuals worldwide to observe the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. Since 1947, this date has also marked our commemoration of UN General Assembly Resolution 181, which advocates ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...