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 […]
Highlights of World YWCA at CSW65 The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the largest global gathering of gender justice activists worldwide. This year the event was held virtually, from March 15-26, with two virtual programmes operating simultaneously at the CSW and NGO CSW platforms. NGO CSW hosted […]
This International Women’s Day, World YWCA invites you 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 […]
YWCA Canberra is one of the longest-standing community organisations servicing the city. Bound in the history of Canberra, the YWCA has been shaping itself in response to changing local and societal contexts. They believe in investing in young women leadership and as a part of the YWCA movement, are an active advocate […]
Early October of 2020, the World YWCA welcomed ten young women leaders from different corners of the world as members of the newly designed World YWCA Leadership Cohort Programme. Considering the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the programme was adapted for cohort members to collaborate remotely with World YWCA and virtually […]
Stories of Five Pioneers and Leaders from the YWCA Movement The COVID-19 pandemic unmasked the ugly reality facing young women and girls who were trapped in close quarters with their abusers, facing issues of employment and income generation and managing the multiple burdens around health and access to resources. It […]
Trigger warning: discussions of sexual and gender-based violence For Geneva Peace Week 2020, World YWCA and Norwegian Church Aid got together to amplify young women’s voices – quite literally! Over the course of two podcasts hosted by Chhavi Sachdev, we listen to four women from different corners of the globe as they […]
Story of Tina Herrera While most of her peers were fitting in the societal expectations of what an ideal woman should pursue in her career, or to fulfil a more traditional gender role, Tina Herrera was training as a mechanical engineer, a field that was highly dominated by men. Self-assured […]
Story of Ashkhen Aslikyan Born in a small village named Berdavan in Armenia, Ashkhen’s upbringing was conservative. There was so much she couldn’t talk about then because regressive attitudes of people within her community. It took the Armenian young woman leader close to a decade to fully embrace the ideology […]
Story of Vera Syrokvash For Vera Syrokvash, at the age of six years old, she was already a solitary feminist though unaware of it. As a child, Vera often did not understand why girls were treated differently. Her desire to argue and finding out the truth was not encouraged. There […]
