Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.”
Kofi Annan
Many of us take literacy for granted. We consider it to be a right not a privilege, but many women are denied this basic right.
Women who have no access to literacy are greatly disadvantaged, missing out on many opportunities that might otherwise be available to them.
IWDA and partners gather in Vietnam for a week of inspiration, sharing, learning & solidarity
Erin McKinnon, Overseas Program Manager
Bringing together some 20 women from 10 of IWDA’s partner organisations across six countries in Asia, the 2007 IWDA Asian Partners Workshop was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 29 October till the 1 November.
Hosted by the Vietnam [...]
A Meaningful Exchange
Cath Rutten – Communications Coordinator
Since 2000 IWDA has supported a program in the north of Thailand that has produced fundamental and positive change for over 3000 women. We would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some of the wonderful achievements of the Women’s Exchange program over the last seven years of [...]
Fiji: A Silent Step Towards Peace
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls is an ardent advocate of UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
As the founding Coordinator of femLINKPACIFIC, Sharon has been working to inform Fijian women of the ways in which 1325, together with initiatives such as the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination [...]
Women Rise to their Feet in the Solomon Islands
Nukufero is a remote Russell Island village in the Solomon Islands. A particularly isolated region, the Russells have no roads, few phones or radios, and transport is by outboard motorboats – a mode which is both costly and too frequently hampered by high seas. The local [...]
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