American Women For International Understanding provided grant to Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) in 2015 to help PDI impart life skills to adolescents in Nairobi Slums. Below is a progress report from our grantee PDI on the work done with the help of a grant from American Women For International Understanding. …
AWIU Grantee Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) Grant Report Read More »
“I believe that global education is one of the most powerful tools to improve nations by reducing poverty, sustaining economic growth, and helping build a more peaceful world. Relations between countries are simply too important to be left in the hands of governments alone. Therefore, with our education programs we …
2016 AWIU Internationalism Award Recipient is Harriet M. Fulbright Read More »
One of America’s most recognized and experienced broadcast journalists, Lesley Stahl’s career has been marked by political scoops, surprising features and award-winning foreign reporting. She has been a 60 MINUTES correspondent since March 1991; the 2015-‘16 season marks her 25th on the broadcast. Stahl’s 2013 series on Guantanamo Bay in …
Lesley Stahl to be Honorary Chair of IWOC Celebration 2016 Read More »
Play Video Deputy Secretary of State Heather Higginbottom and Ambassador Catherine Russell deliver remarks at the 2015 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on March 6, 2015.
The IWOC Celebration Committee proudly announces that award-winning journalist and TV personality Katie Couric is the Celebration’s 2015 Honorary Committee Chair. Currently Yahoo’s Global Anchor, Ms. Couric was co-anchor on NBC’s Today show for 15 years and the first female solo anchor of an evening news broadcast. A best-selling author …
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After Sughra Solangi’s husband left her, she geared up and fearlessly pursued education, eventually forming a whole organization where needy women come together to do embroidery and stitching. She received the ‘Women of Courage’ award from Hillary Clinton. Here is her inspiring story. Play Video
Remarks by Secretary Hillary Clinton at the 2012 International Women of Courage Award Ceremony on March 8th, 2012. Play Video
2011 IWOC Guo Jianmei Guo Jianmei China’s First Public Interest Lawyer In this video she discusses the pivotal moment in her career, hearing Hillary Clinton speak at the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference in Beijing, where she declared, “Women’s rights are human rights.” In this video Guo Jianmei talks about …
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at the 2011 International Women of Courage Awards at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 2011. Play Video
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