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- By Tina Huesing, ICUUW President
In April, the UU Church in the Philippines celebrated its 70th anniversary and ICUUW sent the greetings you can read below.
We have members with strong ties to the Philippines and look forward to closer relations with UUCP and the women’s association in the Philippines.
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- By Tina Huesing, USA, ICUUW President
Dear members and friends,
An organization like ours is all about the people who make it what it is. We have members working together in various committees, task forces and project teams. Let me introduce you to one group:
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- By ICUUW Staff
Twenty-five ICUU Women attended sessions of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women, held in New York City from March 10-21, 2025. The middle weekend of that time was devoted to a Spring Seminar to learn more about the functioning of the UN. Read some impressions from participants:
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- By By Rev. Adél Nagy, Romania
From 11-19 March 2025, my colleague Zsuzsánna Bartha from Kocsord, Hungary, and I participated in the Spring Seminar in New York, organized by ICUUW, which was timed to coincide with the annual conference of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
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- By by Rev. Addae Ama Kraba, Texas, USA
It was a privilege to attend the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the United Nations’ largest gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment. It is inspirational to be in a room filled with women from around the globe working for the same causes.
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- By By Rev. Zsuzsánna Bartha, Romania
The participation for me at Spring Seminar was a dream coming true, after much struggle to get a visa and to travel to US. Finally arriving in NYC and attending the workshops at the UN was overwhelming and so informative. There are not enough words to thank you for making this possible.
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- By By Karen Kortsch, Illinois, USA
I really enjoyed my week in New York City and being able to spend time getting to know a group of our members better. We learned together and bonded in a special way. I am very grateful for all that our members did to make our Spring Seminar a success.
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- By ICUUW Staff
Connecting women to other women is a big part of our mission, and a major way we do that is through our twice-monthly gatherings over Zoom. These started during the pandemic, when we were isolated and hungry for human contact, but they have continued as a highlight for many of us.
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- By Lee Boeke Burke
Our ICUUW has been longing to develop close and lasting relationships with the UU women in the Philippines. I was planning to visit the Philippines this spring and was hoping to deepen some connections with UU women while there but sadly needed to postpone my trip. However, the desire to reach out to our women friends in the Philippines remained and the Membership Committee hatched a plan to send our greetings via a video to the Annual Conference of their UU Women’s Association (UUWA) which met in Dumaguete on March 7-8. Participating in the video were Renee Hills, Tina Huesing, Julie Steinbach, Rev. Maggie Yenoki and me, Lee.
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- By Rev. Denise Tracy, USA
At the 4th ICUUW Convocation this past September, women from all over the world met, talked, and dreamed of the world we wanted for women and girls. This is the defining purpose of ICUUW: improving the lives of women and girls. At lunch one day the ICUUW Outreach Committee, of which I am Co-Chair, sat talking. What are we dreaming of? What do we want to reach out to and bring home to the ICUUW? As we talked, we realized our dream was for Liberal Religious Women from all over the world, young and old, to be connected and to have common, life-changing experiences.
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At its March 2025 Board meeting the Board adopted the organization’s refreshed Strategic Plan which will guide our work for the next five years.
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- By ICUUW Staff and Volunteers
ICUUW Spring Seminar was held in NYC the weekend of March 15-16, 2025, during the United Nationals 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings. Our Tuesday Gatherings on April 8 and 10 focused on recollections of those events.
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In December 2022, the UU Funding Program awarded a $10,000 grant and a $5,000 challenge grant to ICUUW for a project in collaboration with Sueños Sin Fronteras de Tejas (SSFTX), a Latinx, Women of Color-led advocacy collective. “Building BIPOC power in San Antonio, TX: Justice, Healing, and Resistance” promoted reproductive, immigrant, healing, and economic justice through community-led practices that support the livelihoods, visions, and leadership development of low-income, immigrant, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in San Antonio, TX.
The project offered trauma-informed educational workshops for 25 low-income, immigrant BIPOC – regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or immigration status – to enhance self-advocacy and community grassroots organizing for reproductive, immigrant, healing, and economic justice.
The protected spaces enabled participants to share, reflect, learn, and heal together in the service of strengthening individual and collective leadership for resilience, justice, healing, and transformation. Please see a report by SSFTX leaders: Sexual and Reproductive Health Workshops for the San Antonio Immigrant Community.
How can you further support this initiative?
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Learn how to advocate for the unique needs of pregnant and birthing undocumented and immigrant people
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Work with your congregation to adopt educational materials and resources from the Reproductive Justice curriculum of the Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity (SACReD)