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We uplifted the 2024 United Nations' International Women’s Day proposal. This is a vibrant program filled with song, spoken word, calls to action, and community grounding. We lift up these five goals:
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Investing in women, a human rights issue: Time is running out. Gender equality is the greatest human rights challenge, benefiting everyone.
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Ending poverty: Due to the COVID pandemic and conflicts, 75 million more people have fallen into severe poverty since 2020. Immediate action is crucial to prevent over 342 million women and girls living in poverty by 2030.
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Implementing gender-responsive financing: Conflicts and rising prices may lead 75% of countries to cut public spending by 2025, negatively impacting women and their essential services.
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Shifting to a green economy and care society: The current economic system disproportionately affects women. Advocates propose a shift to a green economy and care society to amplify women's voices.
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Supporting feminist change-makers: Despite leading efforts, feminist organizations receive only 0.13% of official development assistance.
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Dear Beloved Members and Friends,
Happy New Year to all! 2024 will be a year full of new challenges and adventures for ICUUW. I hope that each one of you will consider becoming involved in a new activity - there are so many opportunities to learn and grow with us! If you haven’t attended any of our Tuesday Gatherings, it would be a good first step. If your schedule does not allow you to participate in the gatherings, we have many other ways you can get to know us better. Please visit our website to learn more.
This year will bring the excitement of our 4th Convocation in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, Transylvania, Romania. I can’t wait to see many of you at this long-anticipated event. Being together in person does so much to strengthen the ties that bind us and to give energy and momentum to our journey towards gender equity. My wish for us is that the women of Transylvania will feel the love and support of women from many other parts of the world and that we, visitors, will feel the profound historical energy that comes from being in the places where Unitarianism was born and began to blossom. May it be so.
This newsletter is brimming with the many activities and projects that ICUUW is a part of. There are so many accomplishments that make us proud! The journey is long and the roads are often bumpy, but we must continue and forge new paths for the women of tomorrow and beyond.
In Faithful Sisterhood,
Karen Kortsch, ICUUW President
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With the positive attitude suggested by the title above, we gathered in Marosvásárhely/Târgu Mureș on November 17, 2023. The two-day mental health training - organized by ICUUW in collaboration with UNOSZ (Unitarian Women’s Association of Romania) thanks to a generous grant from the UU Funding Program - provided very meaningful and spiritual experiences.
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Share-the-plate (STP) funds will support the International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women (ICUUW), strengthening its capabilities and enabling the organization to implement its programs and services effectively.
The STP year-round calendar focuses on global celebrations or other events; the specific programs highlighted on the calendar page are examples of projects already funded or completed, relating to the monthly focus area.
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Our Faithify campaign to support several young activists' costs to attend the 4th Convocation in Transylvania has surpassed its goal - thank you to all who made this happen!