EVENTS

Uma Shah, ANWS board member and co-founders of the Saathi shelter organization in Nepal, and her colleague Suvekchya Rana, were among the winners of UN Women’s Generation Equality Campaign awards for 2020. The awards are organized by NGO CSW/NY in partnership with Women Have Wings, and with the support of ten grants worth US$5,000 each…

Please join the Global Network of Women’s Shelters (GNWS) for our upcoming webinars. Each webinar will be an opportunity to hear from the VAW/GBV field, with panelists from across the globe, as they discuss the impact of COVID-19 on essential services and survivors. The Impact of Reopening Communities on Supportive Services As governments push to…

GNWS COVID-19 Webinar Series Speakers Fatima Outaleb – Morocco Ranjana Kumari – India Onika Mars – Trinidad & Tobago Vera Vieira – Brazil Staffed by: Ashley Slye – US NNEDV Cindy Southworth – NNEDV MENA Fatima Outaleb talked about how the coronavirus crisis has dramatically increased domestic violence in Arab cities which were suddenly locked…

The seventh webinar in the GNWS series during the COVID-19 pandemic was on the topic of “Fundraising to Keep Shelter Services Going During a Public Health Crisis” on 6 May 2020 at 6:00 PM Washington, DC time. Speakers Cindy Southworth – NNEDV Kaitlin Geiger-Bardswich – Women’s Shelters Canada Ana Cruz – Asociacion Calidad de Vida…