Ongoing Plans for 16 Days Campaign
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign has come and gone, and the Human Rights Team hopes that you had a chance to participate. If not, you still have plenty of time, as the Team is trying something new with a full year’s concentration on the 16 Days theme throughout 2019. Although the specific theme...
FAWCO/FAUSA Members “Orange the World” for the 16 Days Campaign
No one observes the 16 Days Campaign quite like Maggie Palu. This year, Maggie urged members of her French conversation group, English conversation group, the Montpellier Ceilidh Dancers, the Montpellier Scottish dance group AND the AWG Languedoc-Roussillon Book Group to wear orange and serve orange treats. These actions prompted questions, allowing...
The SDG Global Festival of Action is a ground-breaking event, positioned to gather and inspire SDGs campaigners and multi-stakeholder partners to scale up and broaden the global movement to take action for the SDGs. Taking place in Bonn every year, the Festival provides a dynamic and interactive space to showcase the latest innovations, tools and approaches to SDG advocacy and SDG action.
As lead agency and coordinator of the Education 2030 Agenda, UNESCO called together a Global Education Meeting in Brussels (December 3-5, 2018). A strong message recognizing the foundational and fundamental role of Education for peace and development was voiced. On December 3,
HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. In 2017, 940,000 people died from HIV-related causes globally. There were approximately 36.9 million people living with HIV at the end of 2017, with 1.8 million people becoming newly...