Every day is part of the 16 Days of activism to eliminate gender-based violence. 
The 16 Days campaign is most active from November 25 (United Nations Day to End Gender-Based Violence) through December 10 (Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
In reality, every day is a day to actively try to eliminate gender based...
FAWCO's four Global Issues Teams plus the Target Team invite you to join us for the first installment of your Global Issues Book Discussion Series!
The first book in our series is one that touches on all four of FAWCO's Global Issues and reflects the philosophy of FAWCO as a whole: The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the...
Call or write your US Representatives TODAY, April 23rd, to support PATHWAYS in the next Congressional funding bill related to COVID.
Now more than ever, with domestic violence on the rise, your VOICE needs to be heard. Tell the US Congress to give funding to PATHWAYS!
Update on April 26:
A date has not yet been set for voting...
As Americans around the world prepare to go to the polls in person or via absentee ballot to elect the President of the United States in November, it is impossible to ignore the role women have played in American politics. Some names you must surely know, while others may...
In Geneva on February 25, 2020, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet made the following statement (excerpted):
"The adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was a comprehensive expression of States’ commitments to the human rights of women and girls. One hundred and eighty nine countries pledged to achieve gender equality, in practice and in law, so that...
From 1992–1994, I was a US Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of the Seychelles. The Seychelles had no indigenous peoples. It was first settled by the French as a colony for slaves and freed slaves. It was then ceded to the English when Napoleon lost. Because it is along the trade routes to Asia,