ICJW promoted the Get your Gett International Agunah Day Campaign, focusing on March 9 – the date of the Fast of Esther, which was chosen because it symbolizes Jewish women campaigning for their rights. In honour of International Agunah Day on the Fast of Esther (March 9, 2020), Jewish organisations around the world united to […]
March 8 2020 – International Women’s Day – was marked and commemorated in ICJW Affiliate Organizations world-over. Unfortunately, as a result of the widening Coronavirus, the UN NY based Commission on the Status of Women was cancelled. The many thousands of intending participants included sixteen ICJW members, of which several had been organizers of sessions. […]
Eftihia Simha, one of ICJW’s representatives to the UN in Geneva, attended the opening of the exhibition ‘Lest We Forget’ to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2020. The exhibition took place at the Hall des Pas Perdus at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva. It was co-organized by the Delegation of the […]
The Reform UNRWA campaign is urging donor nations to hold UNRWA to account, for financial transparency and reform of the Palestinian education system. Following the unconditional renewal of the mandate of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, at the United Nations on Friday November 15, the campaign to Reform UNRWA (UNRWA: STOP TEACHING HATE) […]
ICJW is proud to support the Every Woman Treaty campaign for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls. Background: Violence against women and girls is the most pervasive human rights violation on earth.It occurs in all countries, across all races, and takes multiple forms. The United Nations defines violence against women as […]
ICJW’s Dr. Joan Lurie Goldberg, together with representatives of other Jewish NGOs, is leading a campaign to reform the United Nations Relief and Works Agency responsible for the welfare of Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). The campaign website is www.reformUNRWA.com On Friday 15 November, 2019, the General Assembly of the UN will vote as to whether to […]
The UN Report on ‘Combatting Antisemitism to Eliminate Discrimination and Intolerance Based on Religion or Belief’ conducted by Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, was released on 23 September 2019. The report is unprecedented, and is one of the rare times that the UN has addressed the issue of antisemitism […]
ICJW representatives Judy Mintz and Lilian Bosboom attended a meeting on September 26 at UN Headquarters entitled “30 Years of Children’s Rights – Opportunities and Threats: Time to Act” as part of Summit Week at the UN General Assembly. The 30th anniversary of the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child […]
ICJW’s 16th European Conference was held on November 3 – 5, 2019, in Athens, Greece, an Ever-Changing City, with the theme: “Learning from the Past, Inspired by the Present, ICJW Prepares for the Future”. This was ICJW’s first event in the home city of its newest affiliate, ICJW Greece. The Conference was recorded – click […]
On July 23, 2019, the UN ECOSOC in Geneva passed a resolution that was both biased and anti-Israel, stating that “Israel is the world’s only violator of women’s human rights”. Robyn Lenn, Chair of ICJW’s Status of Women Committee, issued the following statement. “Unsurprisingly, this resolution – adopted 40 to 2 with 9 abstentions and […]
