Armed conflicts have a dire effect on the lives of women and girls where they take place. Women often suffer in unique ways, which unfortunately include experiencing sexual and gender-based violence in addition to the loss of relatives and economic security. In these situations, International Criminal Law plays a key role in ensuring that...
At the end of the Global Issues Book Discussion on International Literacy Day, September 8, the Human Rights Team announced its selection for FAWCO’s next global read. The book chosen is The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future by Fawzia Koofi.
Fawzia Koofi was one of 23 children born...
The United Nations defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud or coercion) for an improper purpose including forced labor or sexual exploitation.
A minor of sex trafficking is someone subjected to “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or...
Since moving to Edinburgh eleven years ago I have been working for a travel company, but prior to working in this industry I had taught in the United States for sixteen years. While I enjoy working in a business that can create incredible memories of Scotland for people around the world, there are times...
Bahrain, my home, became so small to me, I was almost suffocating there. I heard once that no one leaves their home until their home becomes the mouth of a shark. One only leaves...
In my previous article I put context to the uprising in Bahrain, my home country, how it changed the course of my life and how it led me to what I have been since 2011.
Ending Violence Against Women is a Committee of the Human Rights Team, addressing issues of domestic violence and sex trafficking, as well as other forms of violence against women. The Ending Violence Team was created in April 2008 to address issues of domestic violence, human trafficking and sexual exploitation in order to increase awareness and empower those women and children affected. Over the years, the Team has put a spotlight on the issues to get people talking about them. We also promote tangible actions that we can all take to help eradicate these forms of violence. When you look at the facts you see that we still have a long way to go.
1 in 3 women has been sexually assaulted in her lifetime;
Rape continues to be used as a weapon during war and conflict;
Globalization and climate change are having the most profound impacts on women and children who are disproportionately displaced and left without options;
Gender-based violence is an affliction that millions of women and children suffer in silence and shame. Many become victimized by those who are supposed to love and protect them.
Please share these three one-page information sheets on issues of Domestic Violence, how you can help victims of Domestic Violence, and global issues of Violence Against Women with your club members.
For a worldwide listing of domestic violence agencies, see the Hot Peaches website.
You'll find a link to the Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVC) website on our homepage under Domestic Violence.
For more information or to get involved, contact the Committee Co-Chairs.
Co-Chair, Global Issues, Tonya Teichert at .
Tonya Teichert (AWC The Taunus)
Co-Chair, Global Issues
Co-Chair, Domestic Violence and AODVC Liaison, Karen Lewis at aodvc@fawco.org.
Karen Lewis (FAUSA)
Co-Chair, Domestic Violence and AODVC Liaison
Women Peace and Security is a committee within the Human Rights Team. Its goal is to raise awareness about violence against women in conflict zones and the role of women in the peace-keeping process.
The theme of women and conflict resonates with the very origins of FAWCO. According to The Red Book, FAWCO: A History 1931-2011:
Caroline Curtis Brown founded FAWCO on the belief that "enlightened women, working cooperatively throughout the world, could do much to help achieve permanent international peace; and that this was especially true of American women living abroad who had acquired special experience in living in foreign lands among foreign people and foreign customs. Their American clubs not only provided a home away from home, she felt, but also served to promote sympathetic awareness of the needs and problems in countries other than the United States." Our founder's words are perhaps even more relevant today than in her own time. In our globally connected world, wars have a real impact on the lives of all of us, even when they occur in a distant land. A peaceful world benefits everyone.