One of the biggest challenges of our time is the ability to invest and provide education access to girls and young women.This is particulary true in conflict stricken communities where…
On the 8th of March 2014, the International Women’s Day (IWD) will be celebrated worldwide. Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)Foundation has been working for more than twenty years,…
In January 2014, the thailand-based Women’s League of Burma (WLB) launched the report “Same Impunity, Same Pattern: Sexual abuses by the Burma army will not stop until there is a…
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Back-to-back fires that ravaged two refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border - killing one person and affecting 900 - have added to mounting pressure on the refugees to return home, amid talks on repatriating them as Myanmar opens up after half a century of brutal military rule.
“UNHCR’s Private Sector Fundraising (PSFR) is one of WEAVE's largest customers”, said Gaela Roudy-Fraser, the Coordinator of our Self-reliance lab, who has recently paid a visit to WEAVE’s showroom in Mae Sot, some 500 km north-west of Bangkok. In 2011, the PSFR team in Thailand brokered with WEAVE the first contract for the production of premiums – promotional items that individuals receive as gifts upon making financial donations to UNHCR.