Today NAWO would like to celebrate young women and girls all over the world. The International Day of the Girl exists not to limit our actions to one day, but to promote the human rights of young women and girls every day – and act as a...
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NAWO is very grateful to the University of Exeter and World Associations of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts for holding their Gender Symposium on 12th September 2017, focusing on how organisations can support young women in leadership. NAWO took this...
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By Zuleika Frost, YWA Advance Delegate 2016 UNESCO estimates that there are currently 98 million girls missing out on secondary education worldwide. That’s over 10 times the total population of London who are missing out on quality education, and...
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By Maya Wilson-Autzen, YWA Advance 2016 Delegate Sex. I can remember learning what it is, biologically speaking, and what periods are, but sadly this spans the entirety of my sex education until the age of around 14. More sadly, this is the case...
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By Precious Kennedy-Hamilton, YWA Advance 2016 Delegate In these turbulent times, it feels like I have forgotten about positive news stories, yet the moving photographs of the Women’s March reminded me that I am a proud feminist. The dress code...
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By Zuleika Frost, YWA Advance 2016 Delegate As part of the YWA Advance project run by NAWO, I have learned about activism and young women’s roles to play in calling for their rights, as well as the legal structures in place to guide and enforce...
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By Catherine Walters, YWA Advance 2016 Delegate For me, the best thing to happen in 2017 (so far!) was the Women’s March. It was inspiring, courageous and empowering to see so many like-minded people, all coming together to protest issues that...
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By Mei Jayne Yew, YWA Advance Delegate 2016 Every woman has been told, by a family member, friend or colleague, a shocking story, or a terrifying recount of an act of violence or sexual discrimination against another. One in three of them...
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By Jenny Coates, YWA Advance Delegate 2016 Hard to monitor and even harder to combat, everyday sexism and an increased use of rape jokes foster the violence against women so prevalent in today’s society. Often passed off as merely...
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On the 30th November 2016, The National Alliance of Women’s Organisations held a fantastic day at the Houses of Parliament, to celebrate the success of their Young Women’s Alliance Advance initiative during the #16days of activism to...
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by Precious Kennedy-Hamilton, YWA Advance Delegate 2016 In a country consumed by Brexit, a new Prime Minister and the US elections, Europe’s Refugee Crisis has been somewhat put to one side, however the dismantling of the Calais ‘Jungle’ Camp has...
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by Mei Jayne Yew, YWA Advance Delegate 2016 Sexism is nothing new to me, with incidents I can link back to the earliest years of my adolescence teaching me that women are regularly targeted solely for being women. It horrifies me that girls from...
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