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This  week, the full US Senate will take up S. 1925, the Violence Against Women Act Re-authorization of 2011. As S. 1925 would reauthorize and strengthen existing federal programs to prevent domestic violence and provide for the recovery of women and children affected by abuse. Follow this bill at: http://www.govtrack.us/ This bill was added to [...]

Please read this NY Times article and comment on what can be done to help: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/world/asia/report-finds-continued-jailing-for-afghan-girls-running-from-abuse.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=girls%20in%20afghanistan&st=cse

Right now, the US Supreme Court is arguing about health care and whether the government can compel everyone to have health insurance. How does health insurance affect girls? Are girls concerned about their health? Do you think the government has the moral authority to take care of all its people?There are 3 women and 6 [...]

  In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. -Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate   On 27 February 2012 a World Café Event was held to answer the question: What can we do together to [...]

During women’s history month, it is hard to deny that many great advances in the rights of women and girls have been made, especially in the past 75 years. However there is a solid consensus among those who study these issues that progress in empowering women and girls has more than stagnated in the last [...]

Only an official celebration since 1981, when Congress established “Women’s History Week”, it would take another 6 years until the entire month of March was dedicated to Women’s History. The themes for 2012 Women’s History Month are Women’s Education and Women’s Empowerment. Did you know that women were not allowed to attend college until 1833 [...]

The President of the UN General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser and the Secretary-General of the United Nations H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon would like to jointly propose the convening of a Global Conference on Women by the United Nations in 2015, twenty years after the last women’s summit in Beijing. Given that women compose [...]

“The voice of authority will be younger. The voice of authority will be educated.” —Lizzie Turner and Angela Tilahun Ethel Walker School, Class of 2014

Right now, girls and women from more than 150 countries are making their way to New York City for the annual convening of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Even though the meetings of the Commission over the next 2 weeks are restricted, the numerous NGOs dedicated to Women and Girls around [...]

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