Written with contributions from Marin Bryce A contingent from Big Ocean Women attended a wonderful event on February 19. The event, organized by Utah Valley University’s Women and Leadership Project, featured Dr. Valerie Hudson, a political science professor, and Sharon Eubank, president of Latter-day Saint Charities and second counselor in the general Relief Society presidency…
One of my favorite things about attending the Commision on the Status of Women at the U.N. is the chance to make real connections with women from around the world who are passionate about their vision of the future, and are working hard to make those visions a reality. At CSW 2019 I was able…
The 64th Session of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women will not be proceeding as planned this year because of “the current concerns regarding coronavirus disease (COVID-19).” All side events and parallel events were cancelled. We hope that the virus will be contained, and look forward to being able to be involved with…
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I am basically what you see in my eyes; can you see that? If you can, then what you see in there tells you a whole lot more stories about what I am not telling you. In other words, there is a little girl in there that has been hurt, challenged, afraid when her parents…
Ingvild Segersam is the president of Haro in Sweden, a group formed to support parents. Haro’s purpose is to promote the family as a natural, cultural, social, and financial entity. “One of the most important things we can do is to help one another become better parents. We need to empower parents to put their…
“Stand together with another sister. Find a tribe. Don’t belong, but become one with the tribe. In the power and the spirit of standing in unity, we begin to create a shield of faith against the onslaught of everything that comes to take away from us the dignity and the decency of who we are,…
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When everyone around you is telling you that your children will be better off with someone else, when your community and your culture and your government encourage and even incentivize mothers to leave their children as early as possible, when the picture of what a family and what mothering is has become something up for…
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