Statement on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and as a support for the EWL Turkish delegation’s protest letters concerning persecution of NGOs in Turkey including women’s and feminist NGOs.
It is the hope of IAW that the US President-Elect’s potently lethal statements are left at the campaign podiums –never again to be revisited.
UN SC Res.1325 says that women should be included in conflict resolution and peace talks, but they are not. Anja Wiersinga reports from Council of Europe
But the young women who make its products in Vietnam are intimidated, belittled, and underpaid.
244 civil society organizations including IAW call on the support and solidarity of member states in rejecting amendments to HRC32 draft resolution protecting civil society space. The draft resolution is to be considered for adoption at the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council.
Help enable two activists from Cameroon to join IAW at Congress and share their knowledge and experience of fighting violence against women.
“What initiatives are you going to take to help with the current refugee crisis, in particular with the needs and rights of refugee women and children?”
“On International Women’s Day (8th March), the GLWR rewards women distinguished in the field of important selfness social work, by conferring the “Social Achievement Award ALICE YOTOPOULOS MARANGOPOULOS”, a
This year, this award was conferred to the women of the Eastern Aegean Islands, for the support, hospitality, kindness and solidarity they offered to refugees, arriving in thousands every day during all of 2015 and until recently, destitute and in despair, to the Greek islands.
Marit Nybakk, the current First Vice-President of the Norwegian Parliament, was elected President of IAW’s Norwegian affiliate in May 2016.