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GWI Update 13 January 2016
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— Graduate Women
International news —
Report of the International Conference on ICT
and Post-2015 Education: “Leveraging ICT to Achieve the Post-2015 Education
Goal” released
Graduate Women International (GWI)
participated in the Qingdao high-level conference held 23-23 May 2015, Leveraging Information and Communication Technologies, for
which the report has just been released. GWI gave input to the Qindao Resolution drafting process and GWI Executive Director
Danièle Castle participated as a panellist for a seminar on Women in ICT during the conference. GWI advocates for the
effective use of ICT in education, both as a tool to empower teachers and
students through greater access to information and by promoting more girls to
study in ICT to encourage greater diversity in science, technology, engineering
and maths (STEM) fields. Read GWI’s manifesto on non-traditional education for
girls and women here.
— GWI member news
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A great year for the Turkish Association of
University Women for its child marriage strategy
The Istanbul
branch of the Turkish Association of University Women (TAUW) through its
Friendship Bridge Project has mobilised efforts to achieve a great result for
advocacy against child marriage. In Turkey, 1 in 3 married women was married
before 18 and the number of girls married before the age of 15 is expected to
double over the next decade, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned. TAUW
initiated a number of advocacy activities to address this problem, including
student and community liaison meetings, letters to members of parliament and
media visibility on the issue. Women in 28 cities were reached, a remarkable
effort. TAUW is very hopeful that this continuing campaign will inspire
lawmakers to enforce the legislation that has already established the minimum
age for marriage as 18. To read more on TAUW’s advocacy efforts against child
marriage read here.
— Advocacy
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The difficulty of holding
states accountable when there are no binding legal treaties to make violence
against women illegal
A ’gaping hole’ in international law is
allowing governments to ignore their commitments to end gender-based violence,
according to the former UN special rapporteur Rashida Manjoo, on the causes and consequences of violence
against women. Ms Manjoo said states are not held fully accountable for
ending violence because there is not an international treaty compelling them to
do so. GWI and its NFAs strongly advocate against violence against women (VAW),
for safe schools and safe access for all children, for girls and
women to be able to complete secondary education and study beyond school to
achieve the skills and decision-making powers needed to foster financial
stability and economic development for themselves and their families. For the
full article, read here.
— Grants and awards
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African Women’s Development Fund offers small
grants to women’s groups
The African Women’s Development Fund
(AWDF) Small Grants Program (SGP) currently operates in some selected
countries in Africa, namely Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Kenya. The
objective of this programme is to support small women's groups, which are most
likely not to have access to any financial support. The SGP targets small,
community/rural based grassroots women's groups. Beneficiaries should, however,
be running projects which fall within AWDF's six thematic areas. For the funding
criteria, thematic areas and further information please contact awdf@awdf.org
— Give the gift of
education —
GWI provides
scholarships and mentoring support to young women from rural areas of Uganda to
become qualified teachers and ambassadors for girls’ education, through study at
Makerere University. We would like to invite you to join our GlobalGiving campaign to raise $50,000 to support 50
women student teachers in 2016. You can read more about GWI’s project Teachers
for Rural Futures here.
— Other information
and events —
| January
27 |
Free from Fear, Free from Pain- Eliminating FGM in
Europe Brussels,
Belgium |
| February 1 - 3 |
Advancing Female Leadership Through Higher Education, Milan,
Italy |
| March 9 -
11 |
Future Sense- Universities Shaping the New Era Canberra, Australia |
| April 7-
8 |
Bricks and Clicks for Europe Galway, Ireland |
| June 14 -17 |
Missing and Marginalised Conference, University of Waterloo,
Canada |
| June 24 -27 |
University Women of Europe AGM and Conference Winchester, UK |
| June 28 - July 1 |
12th International Conference, ISTR, Stockholm,
Sweden |
| July 21 - 23 |
3rd Network Gender and STEM Conference 2016
Newcastle, UK |
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