The World YWCA has been working in collaboration with Monash University since 2021, to research on young women’s leadership and challenges in the Asia and the Pacific region. This is in close conjunction with the work being done in the form of the RiseUp! Leadership Initiative, a young women’s transformative […]
The World YWCA is thrilled to announce the Leadership Cohort 2022! The following eleven young women leaders will be engaging with the World YWCA and their host associations to learn and explore the movement’s international community work and reach within a supportive network aligned towards our collective Goal for 2035: […]
– Weaving new knowledge and skills with safe spaces to create transformative leaders that inspire and influence The Rise Up! Guide for Young Women’s Transformative Leadership has been redeveloped using World YWCA’s Feminist Consultation Methodology to ensure in an ever-changing world the tools and resources designed to support and strengthen […]
#YWCALeaders Co-creating Goal 2035: Not Just Some Place We Are Going To, But A Place We Are Creating Together YWCAs from all across the world joined the World YWCA to celebrate World YWCA Day virtually on April 24, 2022, under the theme: #YWCALeaders Co-creating Goal 2035: Not just some place […]
Read powerful stories from YWCA leaders in Ukraine where the invasion by land, sea, air and cyber attack has put the lives of Ukrainians in great peril. These stories are part of the YWCA’s #BulletAndDove witness accounts from women, young women, and girls fighting for human rights in conflict and […]
Intergenerational YWCA leaders from across the world came together virtually to engage at the United Nations 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66). The events for CSW66 were held in a hybrid format from 14-25 March 2022. Given the ongoing challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic, UN […]
Insights from RiseUp! Young women leadership initiative inception period “The Co-creation phase has captured and championed the idea of intergenerational leadership in a beautiful manner, where there is an equal space of discussion for everyone on the team “AGE NO BAR”. This has surely boosted my confidence to be bold and […]
This International Women’s Day, listen-watch-read from some powerful YWCA leaders on their journey towards Peace and Justice as the YWCA movement. We know that war, conflict, and violence impact women, young women, and girls differently. In times of conflict and instability, women, young women, and girls are at severe risk […]
This update has been shared by Anna Haltof, MD (retired), member of YWCA of Poland and volunteer of F.Ocalenie, Salam Lab- Laborathory of Peace from Krakow, Caritas Polska. She has been a teacher on Polish language and culture for six years. We do not know exactly what is happening along […]
The interview was part of the 16 Days of Activism series of World YWCA . Ritah Muyambo, Program Specialist, Civil Society Division Youth and Faith Engagement at UN Women, who talks about how women and girls living with HIV/AIDS experience gender-based violence (GBV) as a double/triple marginalisation. She highlights how […]
