Jean Houston – Awaken to Your Life Purpose, 7-week course – JAN 14

If you’re reading this, I suspect you are someone who is striving to make a difference in the world and trying to live as the highest expression of yourself. If you’d like to have more support to make this year a breakthrough for you in terms of achieving your highest goals and truly making the difference you know you were meant to make . . . You might benefit from working with me for the next 7 weeks, letting me show you how you can become that fulfilled and profoundly effective person you … [Read more...]

Celebrate the Holidays, Handmade personalization with Delance

Handmade Personalization The speciality of Delance is to make each watch a unique piece that tells the story of each woman who wears it. By engraving the case, by setting precious stones evoking special moments, each woman can create her own, personalised watch Delance. A man can also create a lady watch Delance for the woman of his life, to offer her a unique timepiece that will convey his personal message of love and appreciation. The designer, Giselle Rufer - WOMAN of ACTION™, … [Read more...]

Giselle Rufer Delance – WOMAN of ACTION™

  A Celebration of Women™ has been inspired to Celebrate the Life of this entrepreneur that 'followed her heart' and 'created her dream', allowing herself to rise above all obstacles to follow her own destiny. She devotes her life today, as an activist and a watchmaker in designs of time pieces dedicated to WOMEN.   WOMAN of ACTION™     Giselle Rufer Delance 'From my childhood I had the dream to create something very beautiful for women, something like an … [Read more...]

HEROINE – History & Hope for Solutions

Heroin was first synthesized in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, an English chemist working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, England. He had been experimenting with combining morphine with various acids. He boiled anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride over a stove for several hours and produced a more potent, acetylated form of morphine, now called diacetylmorphine. The compound was sent to F. M. Pierce of Owens College in Manchester for analysis, who reported the … [Read more...]

Palestinian Women use traditional embroidery to escape poverty

Women use traditional Palestinian embroidery to escape poverty March 2012 Beit Surik, West Bank One of several villages trapped between the separation Barrier to the east and the border with Israel to the west, Beit Surik is a small village overlooked from all directions by illegal Israeli settlements. Before the Barrier’s construction, people and trade flowed freely across these borders. Today, permits and checkpoints make employment in either Israel or the West Bank nearly impossible for … [Read more...]

VDAY – International Women’s Day 2012

ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, WE CELEBRATE THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE WITHIN V-WORLDTHOUSANDS HAVE COME TOGETHER AND ARE RISING - JOIN US! V-Day celebrates women worldwide today and everyday. Activists everywhere inspire us and we thank and honor you all! This V-Season, over 5,400 V-Day benefit events are taking place on college campuses and in communities in over 50 countries and all 50 of the United States. Today alone, V-Day activists in seven countries including Canada, Spain, France, … [Read more...]

WOMAN of ACTION – Dr. Phyllis Chesler on Michael Coren Show

Dr. Phyllis Chesler on Michael Coren Show To combat the epidemic of honor killings requires understanding what makes these murders unique. They differ from plain and psychopathic homicides, serial killings, crimes of passion, revenge killings, and domestic violence. Their motivation is different and based on codes of morality and behavior that typify some cultures, often reinforced by fundamentalist religious dictates. In 2000, the United Nations estimated that there are 5,000 honor … [Read more...]

Italy must urgently act to end violence against women, UN rights expert says

Italy must urgently act to end violence against women, UN rights expert says Rashida Manjoo, Special Rapporteur on violence against women. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré   January 2012 – Italy must do more to protect women from violence and urgently address the underlying structural causes of gender inequality and discrimination, an independent United Nations human rights expert warned after visiting the country.Rashida Manjoo, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, … [Read more...]

Women’s education ‘smartest global investment,’ Ban tells world at Davos

Women’s education ‘smartest global investment,’ Ban tells World Economic Forum     Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at event for the Every Woman, Every Child initiative. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe   January 2012 – Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon called today on business leaders attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to increase their investment in women’s education and health to ensure their well-being and encourage their participation … [Read more...]

One Year On: UN Women Widens Donor Base, Strengthens Partnerships

  One Year On: UN Women Widens Donor Base, Strengthens Partnerships UN Women commemorates its first anniversary this month with some 114 governments contributing to core funds in 2011, resulting in a 73 percent increase in core funding compared to the combined budget of its former four predecessors the year prior. The entity’s total income target for 2012-13 is set for US$700 million. “[The budget] pushes us to strengthen partnerships across the board — with governments, … [Read more...]

13 Grandmothers in EUROPE – September 2011

EUROPEAN TOUR with Grandmothers Aama Bombo, Maria Alice Campos Freire, Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance and, Ambassador Jyoti September 2011 European Tour September 2011 September 2-4, 2011 in Bielefeld, Germany   Teachings and Prayers CONTACT [email protected] September 8-11, 2011 in Schweibenalp, Switzerland Teachings and Prayers CONTACT [email protected] September 16-18, 2011 in Damanhur, Italy   Teachings, Prayers and Film … [Read more...]

13 Indigenous Grandmothers – Celebrate SUMMER CALENDAR!

A Celebration of Women is elated to share this news, the SUMMER CALENDAR of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers! We represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all Her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come. We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We believe the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain … [Read more...]

Avaaz.org – The World's Most Senseless War‏

Dear friends, In days, a group of powerful world leaders will ask the UN to end the war on drugs and move towards regulation. But politicians say that the public will not support alternative drug policies. Let's give this unique opportunity massive public support and get urgent action. Sign below, and tell everyone: In days, we could finally see the beginning of the end of the ‘war on drugs’. This expensive war has completely failed to curb the plague of drug addiction,while costing … [Read more...]

Michelle Bachelet to Make Economic, Political and Social Case for Women at the World Economic Forum

  Michelle Bachelet  to Make Economic, Political and Social Case for Women at the World Economic Forum     UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet will partake at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week to “make the economic, political and social case for women in the world.” During the annual meeting, Ms. Bachelet will participate at high-level forums, focusing on major challenges and solutions of and for women, on social protection and global sustainability. She will … [Read more...]

Palestinian Women’s Football League – UN envoy celebrates!

      UN envoy on sport for peace cheers young   Palestinian Women Footballers       Honey Thaljieh is the captain of the Palestinian Women Soccer Team.  She wants to use her capacity and faith in God to work for a better future for her people.   February 2011 – The United Nations special envoy on sport today concluded a five-day mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories by watching a football match between two women’s teams in the West Bank, an event he said filled him with … [Read more...]

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