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Welcome to Global Washington’s sixth annual Global Philanthropy Guide, produced in partnership with Seattle Foundation. Global Washington is a member association for organizations with ties to Washington State that are working to improve people’s lives in low- and middle-income countries. As a network, Global Washington promotes its members, connects them to one another, and strengthens their work. In this year’s edition of the Philanthropy Guide, we decided to take a closer look at a single issue that affects nearly everyone on the planet, directly or indirectly: gender-based violence. The World Health Organization estimates that globally more than one in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence in her lifetime. And while women and girls are the most common targets of gender-based violence, the long-term effects ricochet throughout societies and across generations.
The year 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, an agenda considered a landmark for advancing gender equality. Unfortunately, 2020 also ushered in a deadly pandemic, COVID-19, whose wide-reaching effects have disproportionately impacted women and girls globally, including a surge in domestic violence cases.
In order to regain lost ground and continue making progress, we need to ensure a just and gender-inclusive recovery. Throughout this guide, you will find numerous stories of successful strategies for ending gender-based violence. In addition, in the back of this guide you will find a full directory of Global Washington’s more than 160 members, including contact information and descriptions of their work.
2021: A Focus on Ending Gender-Based Violence
Gender bias undermines our social fabric and wastes the incredible potential of half the world’s population. Women’s rights are human rights, and together we can “eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation,” as outlined in Target 5.2 of Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. The following articles, previously published by Global Washington, represent the work that Washington state organizations are doing to end gender-based violence globally.
Read the 2021 Global Philanthropy Guide at Global WA.