We Are Here to Claim Our Space
by Rati Muyambo, Gender and Media student at the University of Cape Town As a young woman who is passionate about gender equality and young…
Let’s not make Orlando an ever greater tragedy
By Kathleen Maksymec, World YWCA Head of Communications In the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, there’s one thing that’s starting to disturb…
Testimony of a former child bride
By Charity Mvoso, YWCA Malawi It was a great privilege for me to attend the parliamentary forum in Ezulwini Swaziland as an observer. We…
The ICFP Experience And Tracing Change Back Home
After some rather intense plate tectonic activity, The International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) finally brought the world to Bali’s doors on 25 to 28…
Zero Discrimination Lifestyle
Written By: Yvonne Schüpbach Recently got to know this unbelievable story: Saudi Arabia ordered 74 new Metro trains of the company Siemens (Vienna). The…
We Have No Other Way But to Fight
Daniela Zelaya, World YWCA Programme Associate (YWCA of Honduras) The whole world and all Hondurans are mourning. The huge wave of violence that threatens…
Conflicting femminism in the USA elections
Lillian Barkley, World YWCA Intern This is the first year I will be eligible to vote in a presidential election, and I’m conflicted. I,…
Learning About Sex and Sexuality
By Sahita Pierre-Antoine, YWCA of Haiti I must have been seven or eight years old when my mother sat me down for the “sex…
Put One’s Money Where Ones Mouth Is
By Vanessa Anyoti, YWCA of Tanzania, Programmes Associate World YWCA “We call upon UN Agencies, Governments, Civil Society and the Private Sector to provide…
Discrimination in the Name of Religion
Written by Andrea Thaxton West Virginia State Capitol at sunset. **Image from: https://www.facebook.com/wvlegislature/timeline Photo credit: WV Legislative Photographer Perry Bennett In the land of…