Like many other youth, when I was 15, I felt lost and had no idea about my future. I’d listen to the other girls in my school share what they want to be after graduating and explain in detail how they will achieve their goal, and I usually just nodded […]
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 […]
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” Dwight Eisenhower, 34th US president The world as we know it today is marked by uncertainty. What is not in doubt, however, is the prevalence of violence globally and locally. A culture of extremism and terror has been established and peace […]
My dad is a cleric, My mum is a teacher, So I am the perfect girl, (Or so says my society). I am Adaeze Muonyelu. I was born in a rural village in the eastern part of Nigeria. My society is cynical by default. She cannot be a feminist, they […]
#16DaysOfActivism “I wouldn’t know how to be a woman who is not a feminist.” That has always been my answer whenever people ask me why I am very passionate about women and feminism. What they don’t know is I didn’t just wake up one morning and identified myself as a […]
Dear women, young women, girls, allies and partners of YWCA all around the world, It is my pleasure to welcome you to 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence 2020 campaign. Our theme for this year, Young Women Lead: Diverse Voices for Action and Accountability. Resonates deeply with our […]
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 […]
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 […]
Updated January 19, 2021. What happened in Beirut? On the evening of August 4, a massive explosion rocked the port of Beirut, resulting in widespread damage throughout the city. The horrifying nightmare resulted from a cataclysmic explosion of 2750 tons of chemicals at the Beirut Port, estimated at the equivalent of […]
