The following stories show how young women leaders in the World YWCA movement are using story-telling and targeted advocacy to change narratives around topics like sexual and reproductive rights and health; mental health; societal norms; and more. The World YWCA is a global movement working in more than 120 countries […]
With the support from the Government of Finland, the World YWCA has developed this online campaign around Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and mental health called #MyBodyMyMind to change dominant narratives around Sexual and Health and Reproductive Rights and how this impacts gender equality.We will publish various materials […]
The following stories show how young women leaders in the World YWCA movement are using story-telling and targeted advocacy to change narratives around topics like sexual and reproductive rights and health; mental health; societal norms; and more. The World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) is a global movement working […]
To join the online campaign from 22 June to 3 July download the toolkit here. Women’s access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is a major concern affecting women, young women and girls across the globe. Many women don’t know their rights and don’t have access to adequate […]
I’m a feminist. I’m also a black, Sudanese-Australian, young cis-woman with a lived settlement experience. Each of these identities have in a myriad of ways impacted and shaped my life, beliefs, values and the way in which I experience the world around me. Whilst my blackness, and my Sudanese-ness, as […]
My name is Helen Ferguson I am from the United States and I identify as a survivor of sexual assault. Recently I was in Geneva Switzerland, far from home, sitting on a bus looking at twitter and I came across an article entitled “Joe Biden’s allegations highlight why 2020 will […]
Women in all of their diversity have been affected in many ways by the coronavirus pandemic, whether we’re talking about the brave women on the front line – women represent 70 percent of the global health and social sector workforce – or women experiencing domestic abuse while isolating with their […]
The YWCA is a global movement of leaders. YWCA leaders are women of all ages. They are problem solvers, care takers, agents of change, and supporters in their communities and families, both formally and informally. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we know women carry an even heavier load, tending to the […]
In an article by BBC World News published on the 5th of March 2020, it was reported that according to a United Nations (UN) Report on ‘Gender and Social Norms’, which analysed biases in areas such as politics and education in 75 countries, Zimbabwe has the highest amount of bias, […]
In the Middle Eastern countries, the tragic killing of women by their closest male relatives are repeated. In Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, and others, news of the killing of women for the motive of “washing off the shame” is rarely heard; yet hardly any of […]
