World Voice Archives - World Moms Network https://worldmomsnetwork.com/category/aacolumns/world-voice-2/ Connecting mothers; empowering women around the globe. Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:57:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.11 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-World-Moms-Network-Logo-512-125x125.jpg World Voice Archives - World Moms Network https://worldmomsnetwork.com/category/aacolumns/world-voice-2/ 32 32 When Child Abuse Is Disguised As Religion https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/28/child-abuse-disguised-as-religion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=child-abuse-disguised-as-religion https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/28/child-abuse-disguised-as-religion/#respond Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:18:57 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38091 Child Rights In the spring of 2005 I found myself opening the door of a police station and hesitantly making my way to the front desk. I was 22 years old, in Amish garb and I looked more than a little out of place as I glanced around the police station. The one thing driving […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/28/child-abuse-disguised-as-religion/feed/ 0 World Food Day 2022 with CARE https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-food-day-2022-with-care https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/#respond Fri, 21 Oct 2022 01:51:52 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38066 Hello World Moms!   We are back this week from our extended summer break and have been up and running behind the scenes in October planning out our next year! Today, we have a special call to action for World Food Day…read on! Sunday, October 16, 2022, I was in Philadelphia with the CARE foundation for World Food […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/20/world-food-day-2022-with-care/feed/ 0 World Mom Mission: Back to (Grad) School https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/10/back-to-grad-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-grad-school https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/10/back-to-grad-school/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:28:49 +0000 https://www.worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37903 I have wanted to go back to school for a long time. It started even before having my first baby and moving states. But one thing led to another and the time never seemed to be right. In the Spring of 2020—when school went online for my kids, then 9 and 12, because of the […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/10/back-to-grad-school/feed/ 1 UKRAINE: Reflections from a former Diplomat https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:30:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37849 I have no words, and also a thousand words. I am profoundly sad and helplessly angry at the same time. What is happening in Ukraine feels surreal, yet it is horrifyingly, heartbreakingly real. It’s taken me days to get words down because nothing that I write could possibly encompass and explain the horror of what’s […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/03/01/ukraine-reflections-from-a-former-diplomat/feed/ 2 Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A Man Who Changed The World https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/28/archbishop-desmond-tutu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=archbishop-desmond-tutu https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/28/archbishop-desmond-tutu/#respond Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:05:47 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37718 Many years ago, when I was still living in South Africa, I was on the organizing committee for a national conference at which Archbishop Desmond Tutu was the keynote speaker. There were about ten of us on the committee, and we were all unspeakably excited at the prospect of an in-person meeting with this great […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/28/archbishop-desmond-tutu/feed/ 0 10 Ways To Observe Human Rights Day https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/09/human-rights-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=human-rights-day https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/09/human-rights-day/#respond Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:25:42 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37713 Each year on December 10, people all around the world celebrate Human Rights Day. The date was chosen to honor the United Nations General Assembly‘s adoption on 10 December 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global statement of international human rights principles. The UDHR was the first international document that spelled out the “basic civil, political, economic, social and […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/12/09/human-rights-day/feed/ 0 Parents Demand Action at Upcoming Global Climate Talks in Glasgow https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/28/parents-demand-action-at-upcoming-global-climate-talks-in-glasgow/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=parents-demand-action-at-upcoming-global-climate-talks-in-glasgow https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/28/parents-demand-action-at-upcoming-global-climate-talks-in-glasgow/#respond Thu, 28 Oct 2021 22:06:01 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37527 The irony is not lost on me as I write this post going on almost 48hrs without power. 90,000 other Rhode Islanders lost power as well in the most recent Nor’easter to blow through. Storms and power outages are becoming more frequent and more severe. The climate crisis is here and only going to get […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/28/parents-demand-action-at-upcoming-global-climate-talks-in-glasgow/feed/ 0 Child Marriage And HIV: How COVID-19 Is Hindering Progress https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/28/child-marriage-and-hiv-how-covid-19-is-hindering-progress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=child-marriage-and-hiv-how-covid-19-is-hindering-progress https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/28/child-marriage-and-hiv-how-covid-19-is-hindering-progress/#respond Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:42:37 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=36644 Last month, my county had its 32nd Annual AIDS Walk to pay tribute to those who we have lost, and to support those who are living with HIV/AIDS. Whenever I receive an invitation to this event, I remember a news story I did a decade ago about how child marriage and HIV have common drivers, […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/28/child-marriage-and-hiv-how-covid-19-is-hindering-progress/feed/ 0 5 Reasons Moms Make Great Advocates https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/14/5-reasons-moms-make-great-advocates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-reasons-moms-make-great-advocates https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/14/5-reasons-moms-make-great-advocates/#respond Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:38:22 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37374 As the world struggles with the pandemic and increasing political division, it is more apparent than ever that government policies – local and global – greatly affect the fates of our families. Many moms have awakened to this reality and are trying to be strong advocates. Yet many don’t know what to do beyond protesting […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/10/14/5-reasons-moms-make-great-advocates/feed/ 0 World Moms for Sustainable Development Goals https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/09/24/world-moms-for-sustainable-development-goals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-moms-for-sustainable-development-goals https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/09/24/world-moms-for-sustainable-development-goals/#respond Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:27:47 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=37373 World Moms Network Contributors talk about theist important Sustainable Development Goals for them.

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