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Friendship and Creativity in Troubled Times
U*U women worldwide have been meeting since spring on Zoom calls organized by ICUUW, gaining strength from and building on each other’s resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. As some participants put it, “we are in the same storm but not in the same boat,” but “when we get lonely, it will be together. When we are together, it will never be lonely.”
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- Written by: Karen Kortsch, ICUUW President
Greetings, Members and Friends,
25 years ago, representatives of 189 nations unanimously adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the Fourth World Conference on Women. Since then, all the countries involved in developing this platform have fallen short on their commitments. The global health crisis has intensified existing gender inequalities, threatening to undo a century’s worth of progress.
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As Unitarians, we have been always taught that in case of conflicts, we should take into consideration the other party’s opinion – long-term understanding and peace can be achieved through compromise. However, in case of the current attacks on human rights in Poland this strategy would be totally wrong.
Since 2015, fundamentalist Catholic teachings have been injected into the Polish legal system. The rights to abortion have been dramatically limited to cases of rape, incest, and serious damage to the fetus. In July 2020, doctors and hospitals were granted rights to refuse to perform an abortion. The legislation on total abortion ban is lining up for convenient political circumstances to be approved by the Polish Parliament.
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The women, they Zoomed
Across borders, oceans, land
To renew, help, love.
The haiku above from Jacqueline Thomas of Kentucky has captured the essence of a weekly online gathering of U*U women worldwide amid the global lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic that has altered all our lives.
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- Written by: Rev. Addae A. Kraba, ICUUW President
Dear Members and Friends,
It has been both an honor and a pleasure to serve as president of ICUUW and to continue building on the progressive work of my predecessors. On ICUUW’s 10th anniversary, I am proud of the last two years’ achievements toward our mission to empower women and girls worldwide. Our dedicated network of individuals and organizations representing Unitarian * Universalists and women and men of progressive faith continue taking direct action to improve women and girls’ lives. The following are just a few of the highlights of the past two years.