The Education Team Expands its Equal Access Focus

We are proud to support the Human Rights Team efforts on behalf of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. This campaign will shine light on how sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace deny women equal access to a non-threatening/safe workplace, as well as affecting opportunity. Read below to...

UNESCO Update

by Pam Perraud, AAWE Paris/FAUSA & UN Representative

Defending the Right to Education

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from October 15 - December 18, UNESCO is running a digital campaign, #RightToEducation, highlighting the work UNESCO does related to education. UNESCO staff works to encourage states to make the right of a quality...

We Are All Sisters

By Anne-Marie B. Tracey, AWC London

Despite some of the more polarizing gender politics at play in conversation recently on both sides of the Atlantic, most of the native and residence countries of our readership will be located in Groups 1 or 2 on the Gender Development Index – quantifying our privilege of having had quite similar...

As holiday shopping begins, be sure to consider the impact of your shopping choices.  Take a look at the following shopping guides to help you buy responsibly.  Avoid purchasing items from countries known to use child or forced labor. Check out this list produced by the US Department of Labor.

Ethical Shopping Guide from Free the Girls--this guide from the previous...

The Human Rights Team's new FAWCO Refugee Network (FRN) offers an opportunity for FAWCO/FAUSA Clubs and Members to inspire each other, share resources and collaborate across club borders in support of the new neighbors in our communities who have arrived from distant and often dangerous places to begin new lives. 

We invite all interested FAWCO/FAUSA members and groups to join this new network by...

Malawi is landlocked, sharing borders with Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. Although Malawi has been able to make important economic and structural reforms and sustain its economic growth rates over the last decade, poverty remains widespread, and the economy is undiversified and vulnerable to external shocks (health and weather). The country’s development is guided by a series of five-year growth and development strategies,

Since 1994 the world has celebrated World Teachers’ Day on October 5.  That day marks the adoption of the international benchmarks of rights and responsibilities of teachers.  It outlines the standards for the initial preparation as well as further education, recruitment, employment and teaching conditions for teachers everywhere.

In honor of the 70^th anniversary of the signing of the UN...

I grew up in the United States. I attended kindergarten and public schools and then continued my education at university. My graduating class in high school in 1977 was over 500 students, without a single student of color. Through no fault of my own, I grew up in a pre-baked “white bread” American dream education system that eventually led me...

by Valerie Garforth, FAUSA

On October 19, 1987, a violent storm swept through southeast England and Belgium, felling hundreds of venerable trees and leaving a path of destruction in its wake. In the Forêt de Soignes, the urban forest outside Brussels, tall beech trees lay scattered like skittles. It was a shocking demonstration of the force of nature. During the...

TREE PLANTING GUIDE

1. Choose your site - Bear in mind the mature height that your tree will reach.  Do you want your tree to provide shade, to be part of a windbreak,Birch tree in the back yard to mask road noise and pollution, to create privacy, to provide shelter and food for small animals and birds, or do you want...