Week Without Violence is a World YWCA campaign celebrated each year to reflect on the magnitude and the strides taken within the movement to address violence against women, young women and girls. Violence against women is still a global problem of epidemic proportions which has further being magnified by the […]
Early in July 2020, the World YWCA launched a call encouraging young women across the YWCA movement to apply to become part of the Leadership Cohort Programme 2020. Supported by the centennial YWCA World Service Council and originally known as the World YWCA internship programme, the Leadership Cohort offers the opportunity for […]
While COVID-19 takes the world by storm, occupying centre stage on TV channels night after night, another pernicious pandemic rages on that somehow doesn’t make the daily 9 PM news. This pandemic is one that we all know about, one that we’ve grown up hearing stories of from our mothers […]
The following blog has been written by Casey Harden, General Secretary World YWCA, on the occasion of Week Without Violence 2020 (October 18-24). Last week, I tweeted about the upcoming World YWCA Week Without Violence, as the General Secretary of World YWCA. I began the tweet, “Close your eyes… What would a week […]
