Tag: women empowerment

Diversity and Integration
Sara Hossni

Bridging Divides: How WCRA is Empowering Vulnerable Women and Children across Egypt and Beyond

The movement of people from the rural south to the more industrialized north has long characterized migration in Egypt. This internal migration pattern, driven by economic hardship, has disproportionately affected women and children, especially those from Upper Egypt. The Women’s and Children’s Rights Association in Assiut (WCRA) has emerged as a vital support system for these vulnerable groups, providing technical and legal assistance to help them navigate the social, economic, and environmental challenges they face in internal migration. 

Empowering Women
Karoliina K

At the airport

And then suddenly, I am here talking to Caroline, Karolina and Carol. It is 3.20 am. And she is crying. Out of nowhere, she is crying. Her fragile hardness and conversation of council politics broke into tears that against her will conquered her pale cheek. Tears are born out of the unborn. The pain of childlessness, and the loneliness of loss in a human’s life. In the lives of two beings, together, alone, alone together. She seems to cry on behalf of all the big hurts of humans all over the world, in a myriad of ways. The hurt of human pain in war. Crying in the dark hours of the night during endless conversations makes nothing better. Drink and pain weave a dark shroud over us. We grieve together alone, alone together. As she cried I grieved myself in her.

Empowering Women
Lucija Borak

My Voice, My Choice: A Citizens’ Initiative for Safe and Accessible Abortion in the EU

Your signature can be the difference for over 20 million women across the European Union who still face barriers to accessing safe abortion care. In Poland, women are dying in hospitals because abortion is banned. In Malta, women risk up to three years in prison for seeking an abortion outside of a few narrow legal exceptions. In Hungary, women are forced to listen to the heartbeat of a fetus and stand before a committee just to exercise their right to choose. Across Europe, women are suffering unnecessarily, because they are denied their most basic rights.

Diversity and Integration
Alesia Ivankova

Fighting Sexual Violence Stigma in Estonia

A European Union-wide survey conducted among over 40,000 Estonian women in 2014 revealed that 13% of women over the age of 15 have experienced sexual violence (Wright, 2020) at least once in their lives. That’s one in every eight women in Estonia. Let that sink in. In the last decade, the number of reported sexual crimes has continued to rise, reaching a total of 731 cases in 2023, according to the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) (Nael, 2024). The problem is growing, yet we’re still not talking about it. Are we afraid? What are we waiting for? It’s time to BE LOUD.

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