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Happy Independence Day to our Members in the USA!

Canada shares a national holiday with Rwanda!

Happy Independence Day to our Members in Rwanda!

As the world observes the 2024 International Day for Countering Hate Speech, Graduate Women International (GWI) is taking significant steps to eliminate hate speech and promote peace. With a focus on raising awareness about the harms of hate speech, GWI is committed to countering hate speech and its profound impact on women and girls.
To mark this day, GWI is releasing a powerful infographic, you may access it through this link: https://buff.ly/4bmNl21

The BRPID projects are micro-projects that empower girls and women through education and leadership development. BRPID grants are awarded to GWI National Federations and Associations. For more information visit our Website: https://buff.ly/3Uq4tNE

Our AGM is coming up fast!

I am surprised by this!

In South Korea, girls still face significant challenges in accessing education, especially adolescent girls who may encounter early marriage, violence, and lack of sanitation facilities in schools.

Source: UNESCO https://buff.ly/48Sm86g

Reminder of the Club Quarterly Meeting coming up next week on Tuesday, Feb 20th. See you there.

To mark International Day for Women and Girls in Science, celebrated annually on 11 February, GWI has put together a comprehensive infographic to shed light on the structural barriers faced by women in science and celebrating GWI’s impact on this topic.
We invite you to read and share our publication by clickinghttps://graduatewomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/WGIS-Infographic-FINAL-SDL.pdf

Advocacy idea!

At the current rate of progress, 110 million girls & young women will remain out of school in 2030. This puts them at a risk of violence, exploitation, and early marriage and lowers future economic sustainability.

Source: UN WOMEN

Today, on National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we remember the 14 women who were murdered 34 years ago at the École Polytechnique simply because they were women:

Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.

We honour the Indigenous, racialized, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals who have been and continue to be disproportionately impacted by gender-based and colonial violence.

We draw attention to the alarming prevalence of femicide—intentional killing with a gender-related motivation—in grief and homage to all women and girls who have been killed as a result of gender-based violence.

We grieve, we mourn, and we vow to act to bring this epidemic to an end once and for all.

Read CFUW-FCFDU's full press release here: https://buff.ly/3uGG2lP

Today is International Day of Eliminating ! Making a reality is key to addressing the root causes of violence . The next 16 days, let's 'Orange the World'!

Happy Independence Day to our members in Turkey!

Poverty is a significant barrier to education. Did you know....

Girls education is so important to them and to their communities, countries and to the world. Everything we can do to help girls get education to the highest levels is a benefit to all of us.

Did you know that nearly 1 in 5 girls are still not completing lower-secondary and 4 to 10 girls are not completing upper-secondary education today? More can be done. Let's start today!

Education is so important and teachers are the key.

Advocacy idea!

To stimulate discussion at today's meeting of CFUW Canada GWI Club we will be treated to a recorded report sent specifically for us by Stacy Dry Lara, ED of GWI. We will also be discussing how to build and retain membership in the club. See you later!

CFUW Canada GWI Club members are reminded that we have a regular quarterly meeting on Tuesday August 22. All members should have received a meeting notice even if you haven't renewed. So now is your chance!

Making a small monthly donation to GWI's Girls Education for Brighter Futures fund with Global Giving is an easy way to make sure GWI's valuable programs and projects are sustained.

GWI marks Pan African Women’s Day with 500+Challenge fundraising movement. Please click on this link to read our Press Release: https://buff.ly/477q2YZ

GWI celebrates 104 years, an infographic was released for World Youth Skills Day, GWI attends the HRC53, UWAP's President, Neelam Jagdale, bids farewell, and much more. To read GWI's Update Newsletter, please click on this link: https://buff.ly/43x7zSv

Graduate Women International, then International Federation of Women, celebrates 104 years. In 1919, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, Professor Rose Sidgwick and Caroline Spurgeon came together in London with university women from Great Britain , Canada, and the United States of America to establish the International Federation of University Women (IFUW, now Graduate Women International (GWI)). They were convinced that by fostering friendship and understanding, women graduates could help prevent another catastrophe such as the World War that had just ended. It was a historic moment that marked the beginning of a movement to empower women in higher education.

Today, we celebrate the 104th anniversary of GWI and honor the visionaries who founded this organization. Their legacy lives on, inspiring generations of women to pursue their dreams and achieve their goals. More than a century later, and under the new name of Graduate Women International (GWI), thousands of women graduates throughout the world share the same principles and vision that inspired those early leaders. GWI continues to advocate in favour of secondary, higher, and continuing education for women all over the world.

Dr. Elizabeth M.E. Poskitt, a former president of GWI, has preserved the history of this remarkable organization in her archives, which can be accessed through the link provided. Let us continue to build on the foundation laid by these trailblazers and work towards a future where every woman has the opportunity to excel in higher education. https://buff.ly/3JU7bqh

Slovenia has made progress towards women's equality by recently electing their first female president (November 2022). Women are also 40% of Parliament now. Slovenia is ranked 12 out of 136 countries in women’s economic participation. Better access to quality education and concrete efforts to achieve gender equality are paying off. What is your country doing to improve education?

Source: OHCHR

A good reminder of what has been going on in the GWI world recently. Check the GWI update for details and if you aren't getting it you can subscribe by going to the GWI website: granduatewomen.org.

GWI released an Infographic for the World Refugee Day, is participating to the 53rd Session of the Human Rights Council, Canadian Federation of University Women Nepean Club hosted a webinar “Choose to Refuse Single-Use Plastics", and much more. To read GWI's Update Newsletter, use this link: https://buff.ly/3NFAqzq

GWI is UNiTED to end violence against women and girls!