Progress in stopping violence against women and girls is a monumental global effort requiring:
- education on the issues
- financial support
- intentional action towards gender equality and opportunity.
Women are making progress and showing their strengths and abilities in many areas across the globe, including in entertainment. We are thrilled to introduce you to Jeanette Andrews, a woman leading a magical transformation!
Jeanette Andrews is hailed as one of the most innovative illusionists in the world today. and has staged hundreds of performances for Fortune 500 companies, theaters and universities. She has presented commissioned and site-specific works for The Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt, the International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She is an Affiliate of Harvard’s metaLAB.
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Jeanette shares one of her illusions with us in celebration of WE Walk - and to help us reconnect. Enjoy! |
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Join us to
Celebrate Our Champions
Today's Action Plan:
Register for our virtual event on Friday, December 10, at 3 p.m. EST
We are celebrating on December 10, Human Rights Day. The General Assembly of the United Nations announced the 2021 Theme: EQUALITY - Reducing inequalities, advancing human rights.
Today's Actions:
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Featured Guests
For the December 10
Virtual Celebration
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Activist Naila Amin was born in Pakistan and migrated from there at the age of 4. She found herself engaged at 8 to her first cousin who was 13 years older. She was taken from New York to Pakistan and forced to live with her much older cousin/husband. She was held against her will in Pakistan until the U.S. Embassy intervened and the U.S. State Department rescued her in early 2005. Through the Naila Amin Foundation, she helps young women by advising them and connecting them with the appropriate resources. After successfully campaigning for New Jersey to end child marriage, in July 2021 New York also ended child marriage, calling it Naila’s Law.
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Saundretta James, Director of Public Affairs, UNW USA Chicago Chapter, will share her poetry. She is currently a Global Goals Ambassador for UNA Chicago for UN Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health and Well-Being. She created Bloom Chicago to promote healthy eating and green spaces in Chicago. Saundretta started her own fashion design company Africana Cultura Fashion as a response to staying in during COVID
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Don McPherson was an All-American quarterback at Syracuse University and is a veteran of the NFL and Canadian Football Leagues. He has been a college football analyst for ESPN, BET, and NBC. Don is a national leader and advocate for the prevention of sexual and domestic violence, conducting workshops and lectures for more than 350 college campuses, community organizations, and national sports and violence prevention organizations.
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Karléh Wilson's song "Body Armor” is about "having the strength to turn toward yourself and your needs when others would rather have you focus on what they want...She finally gets to choose herself, and no one can get in her way. She’s got the power with her body armor to choose for herself what she wants and not rely on others to decide that for her." - Singersroom.
In her book, Overcoming Intimate Partner Violence," Wilson, a domestic violence survivor, shares firsthand what it meant to realize she was in an abusive relationship and the steps that were necessary for her to change her life.
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Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10 — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document that proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being - regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Available in more than 500 languages, it is the most translated document in the world.
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UN Women USA is an independent non-profit, 501c3 organization. Its purpose is to advocate, educate and raise funds for the work of UN Women in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. with chapters in Chicago, Durham, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Sarasota, and San Francisco. EIN 54-1244401
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