Over the past few years I have become increasingly passionate about the issue of women’s rights and equality, and was really excited about the prospect of attending the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) in NYC in March. Of course, those plans had to be aborted as the unprecedented situation with the COVID-19 pandemic...
For many people, social, economic and human rights injustices are a part of everyday life and people continue to suffer as a result of unconscious biases in our society.
The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the...
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all people, women are uniquely impacted. Women are disproportionately represented in insecure jobs. The majority of front-line health care workers (those with the greatest exposure to the virus) are women. Women are also charged with the greatest amount of home care for children, elderly parents and families, resulting in close contact to multiple people.
Hope for Girls and Women Tanzania (HGWT) was established in 2017. In Rhobi's words, “the vision is to free societies of gender-based violence, including FGM, child marriage and wife battering. The mission is to protect human dignity and improve the respect for women and girls in Tanzania.”
HGWT operates two Safe Houses, one in Butiama and the other in Mugumu,
As part of FAWCO's Global Issues Book Discussion Series, the Education Team is excited to announce Among the Maasai, by Juliet Cutler, as our 4th Annual Global Summer Read! In looking for a book this year, we were hoping to find one that not only spoke to education, but one that might also tie to our new Target Project.
Across the globe, countries have responded to COVID-19 as best as they can to limit the spread of infection by closing all non-essential services, including schools at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. While this was done to limit in-person meeting, the sudden shift to online learning has drastically cranked up the gears of the...