Tara Scott (AWC Central Scotland), member of the Education Team, traveled to Korea to attend the UN Department of Public Information NGO Conference 2016. This is Tara's report:
Education for Global Citizenship: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Together
The 66th UN DPI / NGO Conference
Seeing oneself as a Global Citizen was at the heart of this conference. My understanding...
Increasingly women (and children) are becoming the victims of war. In modern times, war less often takes the form of competing armies of men fighting in unpopulated areas, and more often takes place within or near civilian communities, thus putting women at as much risk as male combatants. In addition, war leaves many women vulnerable due to the deaths of...
FAWCO Education Team/AIWC Cologne
Bridging Cultures Workshop Between Cologne and Kisumu
The Bridging Cultures Workshop started with great enthusiasm, and consisted of four successful 45 minute actual Skype sessions. Having great IT specialists present at the IBA (Cologne, Germany) and the Aga Khan School (Kisumu, Kenya) certainly helped. A total of 13 students were involved in the whole workshop. We soon realized...
Human Trafficking is not an official committee of the Human Rights Team, but FAWCO has committed to raising awareness and fundraising for organizations actively combatting human trafficking against women around the world.
“The trade in and exploitation of human beings through trafficking is one of the gravest violations of human dignity that exist. The purposes of trafficking in persons range...
Spearheaded by Arandeep Degun with the support of fellow AIWC Cologne members Mary Dobrian, Janet Davis, Sally Webersinke and Carol-Lyn McKelvey, the project had a great start. The first workshop, the World Wise School, ran for four sessions in April/May. The bright and enthusiastic participants were children of AIWC Cologne members and selected students from the International Friedensschule Koeln (IFK).