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Empowerment of Women
UPF supports UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which calls for increasing involvement of women in preventing and resolving conflicts, peace negotiations, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction. Furthermore, the majority of the poor people of the world are women and children, and global poverty cannot be solved without the empowerment of women and the leadership of women. Scroll down for reports.
Goal: Help women cultivate and contribute their unique resources in promoting peace in their families, communities, nations, and world
Methods: Forums, educational and cultural programs, and community outreach
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Empowerment of Women
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UPF-USA Honors Activist Women in North Carolina
- Saturday, April 28, 2012
Durham, North Carolina, USA - A statewide UPF program titled “The New Era of Women Leadership” was held on April 28 at the Lovin’ Life Ministries center in Durham, North Carolina. It aimed to raise awareness of human-rights violations in Japan, Liberia, and the United States.
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Forum in Toronto on Women's Dignity
- Saturday, April 14, 2012
Toronto, Canada – Universal Peace Federation and Women’s Federation for World Peace organized a forum on ‘Awakening the Dignity of Women’ in Toronto, Canada, on April 14.
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Side Events of the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
- Wednesday, March 14, 2012
New York, USA - In parallel and side events during the 56th Session of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women in February and March 2012, UPF representatives emphasized strengthening the family and combating human trafficking.
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Forum on Women in Tunisia and the Arab Spring
- Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Washington, DC, USA - A professor of women's studies at the University of Tunis in Tunisia, Mrs. Houda Zaibi Belhassen shared insights into the "Arab Spring" in her native Tunisia to a select audience at The Washington Times on January 25. She particularly noted the progressive Personal Status Code that offers special protection to women and children.
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Elimination of Violence against Women Taught in Georgia
- Friday, November 25, 2011
Tbilisi, Georgia - On the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Nov. 25, 2011, Young Peace Ambassadors and the school administration organized a program at High School No. 136 in Tbilisi.
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Women Share Ideas About Building a World of Peace
- Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Tirana, Albania - A report from a participant in the annual Women's Federation for World Peace Assembly in New York City, August 4-6.
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Honoring Mother Teresa's Birthday in New York
- Friday, August 26, 2011
Bronx, New York, USA - The Albanian community in the Bronx honored Mother Teresa’s birthday with a food drive held on Mother Teresa Way on August 26 with Albanian businessmen, restaurant owners, community leaders, and children dressed in Albanian traditional participating.
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Conference in Athens on Women in War and Reconstruction
- Wednesday, June 8, 2011
More than 40 women leaders from the Middle East, North Africa, Gulf States, as well as from Europe and Asia, gathered in Thessaloniki, Greece in May 2011 for the fifteenth annual “Women’s Conference on Peace in the Middle East.”
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Empowerment of Women
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15th Middle East Women's Peace Conference
- Friday, May 27, 2011
Thessaloniki, Greece - The Women's Federation for World Peace International and its Japanese chapter organized the 15th Conference for Peace in the Middle East in Thessaloniki, Greece from May 24 to 27. Forty women from 20 countries of the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East gathered to discuss the theme "Women in War and Reconstruction."
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A Parallel Event of the 55th Commission on the Status of Women
- Thursday, March 3, 2011
New York, USA - Presentations given at the program “Women and the World at a Turning Point,” hosted at the Nigeria House on March 2. Sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Nigeria and Permanent Mission of the Slovak Republic to the United Nations, in partnership with the Universal Peace Federation. [See report.]
Download: Powerpoint Report, Session Program
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UPF-Peru Cosponsors a Conference of Peruvian Women
- Saturday, November 20, 2010
Lima, Peru - Approximately 200 people attended the Fourth Annual Conference of Peruvian Women on November 20, which emphasized the role of women as the main initiators of peace from their place in the home environment to the highest public positions in the nation.
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Ambassadors for Peace Women's Initiative
- Friday, July 9, 2010
The Ambassadors for Peace Women's Initiative supports UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which calls for increasing involvement of women in preventing and resolving conflicts, peace negotiations, peacebuilding, and post-conflict reconstruction.
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