The WAVE Network is not the only organisation to celebrate its 25th anniversary this year! Many women NGOs were created and mobilised shortly after the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995. The conference offered the momentum for women non-profits such as the WAVE Network to soar and promote women´s rights in their respective regions. From then on, women were not only more aware of their rights, but they were given the opportunity and the favourable environment to exercise them.
Inspiring Thursday: Emma Watson
“Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality.” – Emma Watson, The Guardian.
Inspiring Thursday: Alicia Alonso
“If a person keeps thinking, ‘How old am I going to be?’ and thinking about the age, that’s the worst thing you can do. You don’t have to think about how old you are. You have to think about how many things you want to do, and how to do it, and keep on doing it. Otherwise, you know what I think? I am going to live to be 200 years old. So, I hope all of you do have the same fortune. I would hate to be alone.”
A.A
Happy 25th Anniversary WAVE!!
This year, WAVE is celebrating its 25th anniversary! The WAVE Network is one of the main and most influential European-wide feminist networks of NGOs aiming to institute gender equality by eliminating all forms of domestic violence against women.
Inspiring Thursday: Greta Thunberg
“I’m not that special. I can’t convince everyone. I’m just going to do what I want to do and what will have most impact.”
Child Marriage and the Georgian Example
Child marriage is driven by gender inequality and the belief that women and girls are somehow inferior to men and boys. Many girls who are married … Read more
Inspiring Thursday: Hevrin Khalaf
“The role of women in solving the Syrian crisis is great, and women are not only half of society, but constitute the whole society (…)” Hevrin Khalaf
Hevrin Khalaf, 35 years old, was one of the nine civilians killed on Saturday 12th October 2019 by the Turkish-backed militias in Syria.
What about Iranian women and football?
Remembering Sahar Khodayari, the “Blue Girl”. Sahar Khodayari committed suicide on 9th September of 2019 at the age of 29 years old. She immolated herself after knowing that she could have spent from 6 months to up … Read more
Inspiring Thursday: Toni Morrison
“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it. It’s richer than being a white male writer because I know more and I’ve experienced more.” — Toni Morrison, in a 2003 New Yorker profile.
