Human Trafficking is the buying and selling of people. It does not necessarily imply movement or transportation. It is Slavery.
Human trafficking is the second largest illegal business in the world with estimates of 30 billion dollars plus per year worldwide.

In the collective imagination, the term human trafficking most often conjures visions of exotic people from foreign countries being forced into...

Online Stanford University Course Syllabus

Introduction (Launching 1/29)
Welcome to the course & How it works
 
Week 1. Human Rights (Launching 1/29)
Women’s Rights = Human Rights
Son preference and demography
 
Week 2. Education
Education as the 'magic' intervention
Learning vs. schooling

Week 3:  Adolescence & Vulnerability
Female genital cutting/mutilation
Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

Week 4: Reproductive Health and Rights
Early marriage and early childbirth
Reproductive health, sexuality, maternity contraception

Week 5: Violence in...

Introduction by Karen Lewis, Ending Violence Against Women Committee Co-Chair and AODVC Liaison

Following my article in the February 2015 Human Rights Team Bulletin regarding sexual abuse/harassment in the military, I happened to make friends with a survivor of sexual harassment in the military and hear her story. Since then, we've had a few conversations about this culture of acceptance...

FAWCO's Human Rights Team presents 

THE STRENGTH OF A WOMAN TOUR: RWANDA

Since the genocide that tore Rwanda apart twenty years ago, this tiny African country has become a model for the involvement of women in all levels of government. Women have been at the heart of the country's recovery. While over 60% of the Rwandan Parliament is made up...

Genocide. What a strange thing it is. The need to wipe a group of people off the face of the earth! What a barbaric concept! Yet the last century has seen multiple genocides that have resulted in the loss of millions and millions of lives in the most horrific ways. We imaginative humans seem to come up with ever more ingenious ways...

Let's celebrate some notable women of color

It is always refreshing to see how FAWCO highlights the achievements of some truly incredible women who are its members, past and present,  doing amazing things around the world. As a member of an international women's organization whose members include authors, musicians, philanthropists, and just plain amazing women, it is an honor to...