Violence Against Women

FAWCO joined the undersigned non-governmental organizations in consultative status with ECOSOC, members of the Vienna NGO Committee on the Status of Women, present for the information of and consideration by the participants of the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (March 4th-15th, 2013) the following statement on

Elimination and Prevention of All Forms of...

Football and Trafficking – The World Cup Scandal

 By Pam Perraud , NGO Director   

Sports, booze and sex. They usually go together but this year’s World Cup championship in Germany set off a firestorm of controversy.  Why?  Because prostitution is legal in Germany and the well-organized Germans have gone to extraordinary lengths to anticipate and make sure that...

To    Honorable Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

To   Gerhard Mayer-Volfelder, President of FIFA Germany

 Whereas:

•  From June 9- July 9 Germany will host the FIFA World Cup  soccer tournament in 12 German cities drawing upwards of 7 million visitors, mostly males, and

• It is estimated 40,000-100,000...