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Program Priorities for 2011 - 2012:
A Member's Guide to Action and Information

In this year, 2011, many disparate issues affect the
well-being of women around the world.

WG-USA Identified Three Priority Issues
In 2011, the Program committee of Women Graduates–USA identified three priority issues which demand attention as first and urgent priorities, chosen from many possible priorities, as well as the identification of emerging and additional urgent priorities such as the ratification of Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women [CEDAW] in the U.S.A..
>>Rationale and introduction

           

WG-USA is concerned with the following actions;

• Promoting access to education for refugee and immigrant women
• Raising awareness of trafficking of women and girls world wide, such awareness leading to advocacy for appropriate legislation
• Promoting and educating about the United Nations Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security

A program guide for action on each of these priorities are listed as templates in the left sidebar..

An Individual Member’s  Program Guide

WG members will discover that the program materials have been written for an individual WG-USA member who wants to “do something” about any or all of these priorities. To facilitate this goal the Program Committee  created a template for each priority, including the ratification of CEDAW . It is hoped that the individual member, reading through these templates, can say to herself, “Eureka! WG-USA read my mind! Here are some concrete ideas about something I can do right where I live, right now. It’s here on the web!”

>>Education template
>>Ratifying CEDAW template
>>Human Trafficking template

Take Action

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Mission and Focus

The mission of Women Graduates-USA is to empower women world-wide to secure a better world through education, advocacy, friendship and mutual support.

Keeping the mission uppermost, WG-USA aims to provide our membership with information, resource material, world-wide discussions through the Internet, suggested actions they can take in such areas as: policy issues that affect women and children everywhere, United Nations activities including those of the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG), international connections, and advocacy for USA policies such as the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

Please contact the Program Coordinator at program@wg-usa.org.

Program Links

Information about women's issues are posted on our News Pages.