compiled by Carol-Lyn McKelvey, FAUSA/AIWC Cologne
As your Education Team wraps up its focus on Equal Access (SDG Targets 4.1, 4.2, 4.5), international focus on this topic is ramping up! Check out the offerings and updates below.
** In conjunction with CSW67, and its priority theme of “innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls,” Graduate Women International is offering two parallel events highlighting this theme and SDG 4:
1. Innovative Ideas in Education and Advocacy to Empower Women and Girls: March 14, 2023, 11 am EST / 4 pm CET.
“The parallel event will consider new and innovative ways of approaching both education and advocacy work for women and girls. Technology, social media, and the virtual world are leading the way in communication in the contemporary world. The question, how should we incorporate these and other innovations to help women and girls to attain better education fulfilling SDG 4 will be explored.” Click HERE to register for this event.
2. Gender Equality in Digital Education: Young Women and Financial Challenges: March 16, 2023, 11 am EST /4 pm CET.
“As the world is moving exponentially into the digital age of education transformation, financial barriers persist to digital access for women and girls. This interactive event will explore gender disparities, due to financial factors, in accessing technological advances in education with examples from rural and urban areas.” Click HERE to register for this event.
**To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, AWO Greece is hosting a Zoom event at 3 pm EET featuring the Archivist of the American College of Greece.
From AWO Greece: “What was American education for girls like at the end of the nineteenth century? How did it reach Europe and the Near East? What was its impact and mission? Join our conversation and explore the interesting history of an institution founded in Smyrna in 1875 by a single female missionary from Massachusetts, which reflects the multifaceted impact of American women’s education abroad.” To join, log into ZOOM and enter the following information: Meeting ID: 813 3906 6190 Passcode: 538020.
**Have a young adult in your life looking to help change the world? Then this opportunity to become a Global Youth Ambassador through Theirworld might be just the right fit!
From Theirworld: “The two-year programme supports young people around the world to campaign for the right to education in their communities, countries and beyond. We give them the tools and knowledge they need to take their activism to the next level.” Click HERE for the application. Additionally, Theirworld is reporting that 118 million children under five years old are not in school in crisis-affected countries. Click HERE for the full story.
**In the most eggregious attack on equal access to education for girls and women in recent memory, this update from Afghanistan from December 2022 details the current restirctions and the international response.
