From FAWCO's Global Team on Ending Violence Against Women and Children
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The full United Nations report on the Commission on the Status of Women fifty-seventh session (4-15 March 2013) can be read here.
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The findings of an important new study on the global prevalence of violence against women and its impacts were published in June 2013. You can read about the study here.
From FAWCO's Global Team on Ending Violence Against Women and Children
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Prepared by: Erica Higbie
Date: 3 – 15 March 2013
Location: In and around the United Nations, New York
Program: 57th Commission on the Status of Women: elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls
Format: Multiple sessions, side events (128) and parallel events (350)
Organization: UNWomen and NGO CSW, member states (131), working groups, civil...
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On February 13 members of the AWC Hamburg together with representatives from Coco-Mat, a recognized leader for natural sleep products, presented heart pillows for breast cancer patients to the Mammazentrum Hamburg in the Jerusalem Hospital. 100 pillows came directly from Coco-Mat and 32 were handmade by members of the Stitch N Bitch group of the AWCH.
The heart-shaped pillows are...
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Learn more about the Commission on the Status of Women: Agreed Conclusions, click here.
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On March 18, 2013, to honor National Women's History Month, the US Embassy in Vienna Public Affairs Department, AWA Vienna and FAWCO drew attention to the issue of female oppression by sex trafficking and forced prostitution.
After the screening of a segment on prostitution in India from the PBS documentary “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,”