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*Challenges and Solutions for Child and Young Widows (WRI event at the House of Lords)

Posted 3 days ago / Europe News, National, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, News, Our Work, YWA Blog 0

The following post is written by Bella Brown, a YWA delegate. On the 4th September, I was lucky enough to attend and participate in an event at the House of Lords on child widows. The event was chaired by Baroness Anelay, and interesting...

NAWO at UN OEWGA July 2018

Posted 20 days ago / International, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, News, Our Work 0

The following is written by Elizabeth Sclater from the Older Women’s Network, Europe. Held between 23 – 26 July in a hot, steamy and thundery New York, OEWGA 9 addressed two key issues in securing and protecting the human rights of older...

European Women’s Lobby update

Posted 22 days ago / Europe News, International, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, Uncategorized, YWA Blog 0

The following post is written by Barbara Cleary, Trustee at NAWO. European Women’s Open Forum Meeting June 2018 Representation on the Lobby has changed. My term of office for NAWO came to an end in June 2018 and representation of the UK...

UKSSD partnership update

Posted 22 days ago / International, National, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, News, Our Work, Uncategorized, YWA Blog 0

The following post is written by Lauren Smith. NAWO has been driving work with UKSSD and other organisations across the UK to find out how the UK is measuring up against the United Nations SDGs. The #MeasuringUp report was presented at the High...

NAWO’s Mock CSW with Stroud High School

Posted August 8, 2018 / National, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, News, Uncategorized, YWA Blog 0

On Wednesday 11th July, NAWO Young Women’s Alliance delegates from Stroud High School delivered a brilliant mock CSW Conference to over 600 students. The first of NAWO’s two Learning & Action Conferences, this groundbreaking day...

“The world of humanity has two wings – one is women and the other men.”

Posted July 14, 2018 / International, National, NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members, News, Our Work 0

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality will not be possible in the UK unless women and girls are recognised for their uniqueness, and unless they work alongside men to change hearts and minds. Barbara Cleary, Trustee at the...

“It is important to me that female experience is heard and taken seriously”

Posted July 25, 2017 / NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members 0

Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with talented women who are taking a real stand to better understand gender and gender inequality. I am in conversation with the gorgeous and talented Francesca Stevens in a shabby and slightly...

How do we stop gender violence? How to disrupt ‘a “funny” moment’.

Posted May 28, 2017 / NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members 0

Yesterday, I went to Comic Con. If you have never been to a convention it will need an introduction. It is a completely surreal space in which you queue with Superman on your left and Batman on your right. A place in which a dragon, is the most...

Women have simply not been educated to succeed

Posted May 20, 2017 / NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members 0

“Fewer women leading FTSE firms than men called John“ far fewer.. It is a shocking fact, particularly when we consider that a distinct effort is being made to increase the number of women, at least at entry level. Women’s...

‘Empathy and the ability to use your imagination should have no limits’

Posted May 10, 2017 / NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members 0

Emma Watson has represented for us all, proof that our Hogwarts letter was just lost in the post. Her superb eloquence in the face of sexism befits a girl who lives in the library and battles death eaters in her spare time. “Feminism is not a...

Women and the Vote. A campaign for representation.

Posted April 20, 2017 / NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members 0

Our understanding of the fight for a women’s right to vote is often accompanied by images of Emmeline Pankhurst with bold and brave speeches, of the horrific stories of force feeding and the tragic trampling of Emily Davison. However, the...

Women and the vote

Posted April 20, 2017 / NAWO Blog, The views and voices of NAWO and its members 0

The snap election in June brings with it a whirlwind; one of media, politicians, door knockers, facebook opinions, whys? Really all this agains? Whatever your political orientation, such a snap election and the crushing realisation of yet more...