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— Graduate Women
International news —
GWI Teachers
for Rural Futures students progress while community dialogue takes
placeWinfred and Benadet,
student teachers from the Graduate Women International (GWI) project Teachers for Rural Futures are currently doing first year
exams for their Bachelor in Education at Makerere University. GWI affiliate and
project partner Uganda Association of University Women (UAUW) have generated
support for the project in the rural area of Uganda where the girls are from and
advocated with parents, teenagers and key individuals to emphasise the benefits
of secondary schooling and beyond for their girls. UAUW member Professor Alice
Kagoda commented, ‘When the community heard we were coming to talk to them, they
were intrigued. As this is a remote community many had planned to marry their
girls off, but as a result of our visit they have decided to keep them in
school.‘ To donate to our project and help train women teachers in rural areas
please follow this link.
— GWI member news
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Graduate Women Scotland hold annual Research
Presentations Day and recruit new members
On 23 April 2016 in Glasgow nine postgraduate students
were invited to speak to an audience from Graduate Women Scotland (GWS). The students were from
universities in the West of Scotland, selected from 19 who had submitted
abstracts. On this occasion there was a particularly diverse range of topics to
interest members, ranging from such subjects as advances in the understanding of
Congenital Toxoplasmosis; methods of improving the welfare of sheep by making
them resistant to Gastro-Intestinal Parasite to the Influential Reviews of
Virginia Woolf. The Day is intended to give the students confidence in
presentation skills while educating GWS members. The presentations were, as
always, well received. In addition, the event raises the profile of the
federation among University staff and students, a number of whom have joined GWS
as a result.
— Advocacy
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World
Humanitarian Summit 2016 will hold round table on empowering women and girls
Women and girls
suffer greatly during humanitarian crises. Extreme levels of gender-based
violence and exclusion from life-saving services are some effects, and
humanitarian action continues to fail women and girls. The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in Istanbul, Turkey, 23-24
May, will address these humanitarian failings. The WHS will host a high-level
leaders roundtable on Women and Girls: Catalysing action to achieve gender equality.
This embraces two WHS core responsibilities: to ‘uphold the norms that
safeguard humanity, including eradicating sexual and gender-based violence and
treat survivors with dignity’ and to ‘leave no one behind, including through
empowering and protecting women and girls.’ Outcome reports will be a way
forward for states to take the new Agenda for Humanity forward. Ensuring women’s rights and empowerment is integral to
post-conflict peacebuilding and resilience.
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Call for
applications —
Prize for
the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in
EducationSince 2005, the
UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Education has recognised innovations in
teaching and learning that leverage technology to improve educational outcomes.
The theme for the 2016 edition of UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for
the Use of ICTs in Education, is the Use of ICTs in Education for Disadvantaged
Groups. Enquiries and applications should be sent to ictprize@unesco.org before 30 September
2016.
— Membership
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Give the gift of membership! Do you know a graduate woman who
would like to join the leading women’s international organisation that works to
empower girls and women through access to lifelong, quality education and
training? Give the gift of membership to join a global community of some
20,000 members in 80 countries, either as a GWI independent member or national
member of one of our National Federations and Associations (NFAs).
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