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#YW4A: Equality Now
As a technical partner in the YW4A consortium, Equality Now is building the capacity of young women and women rights organizations to develop national advocacy strategies that will be informed by country-specific legal gaps on discriminatory laws and practices that perpetuate violence against women and girls. Furthermore, their exclusion from decision-making spaces. In addition, we ...
World YWCA Condemns the Killing of Prominent Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Peace with justice has been a constant vision and goal throughout the more than 160 years of YWCA history. As a global movement, YWCA leaders have passed more than 40 resolutions about women, peace and security constantly demanding justice and the accountability of the perpetrators of human rights violations. World YWCA’s unique, bold and transformative ...
Launch of the YW4A Partnership and Initiative
On April 4, 2022, World YWCA and its partners officially launched the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability (YW4A) Partnership and Initiative. This was done through a global webinar that unpacked the fundamentals of the partnership and initiative. The webinar was moderated by Adelle Onyango, a media personality and active sexual and gender-based ...
Co-creating Young women clubs in Egypt as an adaptation to the World YWCA safe space model.
World YWCA, though the YW4A programme, has for the first time, since the development of its RiseUp! Leadership training model in 2010, rolled out the training to MENA and the Africa Regions. RiseUp! provides peer to peer leadership and advocacy training to young women and supports them to build knowledge, skills and networks to take ...
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 ...
World YWCA Day 2021: A Celebration of #YWCALeaders
Every year on April 24, YWCAs around the world celebrate World YWCA Day. For 160 years, YWCA leaders and pioneers have taken action in communities to make human rights a reality. In 2020, YWCA has been building strong, powerful and humble advocates and fighters who have supported those around and promoted sisterhood every time, especially during a crisis. ...
This #InternationalWomensDay2021, World YWCA Invites All to Sign a Pledge to Support LGBTIQ Women and Marginalised Genders!
At World YWCA, we stand for inclusion and safety of LGBTIQ people. We know that women and people of marginalised genders and sexualities share commonality of oppression by patriarchy, with the added intersectional experiences of race, geographical location, religion, culture, class and colonisation. World YWCA has been fighting for gender equality for over a century, ...
World YWCA Delegation at the Virtual CSW65
A diverse delegation of more than 50 leaders are joining the World YWCA to actively engage at the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women taking place from 15 to 26 March 2021. Given the unique circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, CSW65 will be drastically different compared to other years. Most of the events will be held ...
Standing in Solidarity with Armenia
Read World YWCA’s official statement on ending war in Armenia.
Together With YWCA Of Belarus
Read World YWCA’s statement on Belarus calling to stop violence against humanity.