The 16 Day Campaign 2012: From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World

November 25^th – December 10^th 2012

Team Contact: Erica Higbie, Co-chair

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global campaign dedicated to ending gender-based violence. It originated in 1991 to increase international awareness of the systemic nature of violence...

Prevention of Human Trafficking and Protection of its Victims, especially Women and Children

Report on UN General Assembly Interactive Dialogue

4 April 2012, New York

Speakers:

Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the 66th General Assembly

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary- General

Milos Koterec, President of ECOSOC (Statement read)

YuryFedotov, Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UNODC

Mira Sorvino, UN Goodwill Ambassador against Human...

FAWCO member Paula Lucas was named a Reader's Digest Hometown Hero. She founded the American Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVCC).  FAWCO partnered in 2009-2011 with AODVCC in their worldwide Ambassadors Training. Read article.

UN Conference Focuses on Rural Women

By Erica Higbie, FAWCO UN Representative in New York

The 56^th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW56) was held at the United Nations in New York from Feb 27 to March 9. This year’s forum, organized by UN Women and civil society organizations like FAWCO, was focused on issues faced...

Nov 16 2011

Recent Developments on the Right to Food

Speaker:

Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur (a knowledgeable speaker and outstanding presenter)

The main focus of the program was advocating an approach...