RECENT NEWS AND INFORMATION
Resources from One Shared World and the Academy for Educational Development
Research shows that educating girls is one of the best investments in development. When girls are allowed to attend high school, fewer become teenage mothers or infected with HIV/AIDS and more join the workforce so incomes increase and economies grow. The issue is highlighted in two new online resources:
- A new 13-minute video, "Path to Promise: Girls Making the Grade," in which AED follows two Ugandan girls who are defying the odds to attend high school. The flash video can be found at http://www.aed.org/News/Multimedia/Paths-to-Promise.cfm.
- A companion book, "Keeping the Promise: Five Benefits of Girls Secondary Education," that makes the case for promoting girl's high school education in the developing world. The PDF of the book can be found at http://www.aed.org/Publications/loader.cfm.
Global Summit of Women
AAUW is proud to be a Global Member of the 2008 Global Summit of Women, to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam June 5-7, 2008. Informally called the "Davos for Women" by past participants, the Summit has developed a reputation as an exciting, fact-filled, hands-on gathering of high caliber participants. Now in its 18th year, the Global Summit of Women celebrates women's leadership worldwide by bringing together women business, professional, and governmental leaders from around the world for three days of stimulating sessions led by opinion leaders and influencers who happen to be women. The 2008 Global Summit of Women explores two of the major forces that will impact the 21st century global marketplace – Women and the Asia-Pacific economies. What women can do to access those markets and what we can learn from the women business leaders from the region will form the frame of this global gathering. AAUW members who attend the Summit receive special benefits as a Global Member. View the Global Member discounts here.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Information and Resource Kit
The AAUW International Affairs Committee has compiled this comprehensive set of resources to assist AAUW states and branches in their education and advocacy efforts on behalf of the ratification of CEDAW, the women's rights treaty.
RESOURCES AAUW'S INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS
AAUW International Programs and Partnerships
- CARE - AAUW partner, CARE, is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.
- Advocacy: Education for All Act of 2007 - A bill to ensure that the U.S. provides the resources and leadership to ensure a successful international effort to provide all children with a quality basic education.
- One Shared World – Connecting American women to the many public and private efforts that help people in developing countries overcome poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease.
- International Museum of Women - AAUW recently received thanks for being a partner in the groundbreaking Imagining Ourselves project of the International Museum of Women. The project has inspired more than a million women from 200 countries to contribute online by adding comments, reading stories, and contributing to a dialogue for positive change. The promotion of the final theme for the Imagining Ourselves exhibit was in December, before moving onto another exciting and timely online exhibit, Women, Power and Politics, launching in March 2008. In addition, Imagining Ourselves was the recipient of the 2007 Anita Borg Social Impact Award — an internationally juried prize which honors an individual or team who caused technology to have a positive impact on the lives of women and society. The $10,000 prize will be used toward continued support of the work of the International Museum of Women.
- AAUW Educational Foundation International Fellowships
AAUW Affiliations with International Organizations and Coalitions
International Links of Interest - links to other organizations working internationally on behalf of women and girls
