All around the world, women and men, girls and boys will be joining together on February 14 to RISE against violence against women. You can be a part of it. Go to www.onebillionrising.org and look for an event in your community. A truly inspriing film about One Billion Rising 2013 shows you what rising and dancing looks like, how wonderful and...
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Read a UN Women Report detailing the impacts on women of the UN Millenium Development Goals here -- there's more work to be done.
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Clubs in Motion!
Join Clubs in Motion and get moving with FAWCO. If your Club has a walking, hiking or running group, this is for YOU!
Let's get moving! Join FAWCO Clubs in Motion today! Happy and healthy!
A picture of some of some FAWCO's leaders caught in the act - out WALKING while attending the Geneva NGO Forum Beijing+20! From left to right...
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To learn about the UN's global plan of action against human trafficking, read "The Modern Day Slavery of Human Trafficking" here.
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For an overview of the areas covered by FAWCO's Human Rights Team, read this article about the priority issues that UN Women is addressing: A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Women’s Empowerment: From the sidelines to the centre (by Lakshmi Puri, UN Women, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, May 2013). UNWomenOnWomensRights.pdf
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To read a UN Report on the crucial role of education in the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), click here.
From the report: "The MDGs with targets for 2015 crystallized the growing consensus which emerged during the 1990s, namely, that poverty reduction and the provision of basic social services need to be at the centre of development policy. Of...