Elizabeth Atalay, Author at World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/author/documama/ Connecting mothers; empowering women around the globe. Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:08:53 +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 Elizabeth Atalay, Author at World Moms Network https://iv1r64b91k.onrocket.site/author/documama/ 32 32 ALT Summit + The Riveter in NYC https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:09:06 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=38031 World Moms Network Editor at Large Elizabeth Atalay attended the recent ALT Summit + The Riveter conference in New York City. The Riveter summed up some of the memorable moments in this post. The ALT Summit + The Riveter conference was my first in-person event since the pandemic and brought about all the feels! The […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2022/10/11/alt-summit-the-riveter-in-nyc/feed/ 1 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 UN World Refugee Day is June 20th https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/06/18/un-world-refugee-day-is-june-20th/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=un-world-refugee-day-is-june-20th https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/06/18/un-world-refugee-day-is-june-20th/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2021 01:38:07 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=36588 UN World Refugee Day 2021 is themed Together We Can Achieve Anything “Only together can we end this pandemic and recover. Only together can we revive our economies. And then, together, we can all get back to the things we love.” –UN Secretary-General António Guterres United Nations World Refugee Day is a day to build empathy […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2021/06/18/un-world-refugee-day-is-june-20th/feed/ 2 Topless in the USA : Breast Cancer Awareness Month https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/28/topless-in-the-usa-breast-cancer-awareness-month/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=topless-in-the-usa-breast-cancer-awareness-month https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/28/topless-in-the-usa-breast-cancer-awareness-month/#respond Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:00:28 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35944 This time last year I found myself laying topless on a bed with laser beams dancing across my breasts. How strange, I remember thinking, to so cavalierly take my shirt off for so many different people after being married for over 20 years. I can’t say I’d ever been terribly modest about my breasts. My […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2020/10/28/topless-in-the-usa-breast-cancer-awareness-month/feed/ 0 Save the Children’s 2019 Global Childhood Report https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/05/29/save-the-childrens-2019-global-childhood-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=save-the-childrens-2019-global-childhood-report https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/05/29/save-the-childrens-2019-global-childhood-report/#respond Wed, 29 May 2019 20:26:39 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35638 There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats it’s children. – Nelson Mandela In the past couple of years there have been moments, after hearing yet another horrific news story, that I have wondered out loud to my husband if there might be a safer country […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/05/29/save-the-childrens-2019-global-childhood-report/feed/ 0 Travel: The Amazon Spheres https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/05/21/travel-the-amazon-spheres/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=travel-the-amazon-spheres https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/05/21/travel-the-amazon-spheres/#comments Tue, 21 May 2019 16:56:18 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35531 Seattle, Washington, USA We know that nature has a positive impact on our mental and physical well being, and I felt the effect immediately upon entering The Amazon Spheres. Surrounded by nearly 800 species of plants, the bustle of the urban, outside world, dropped away. I had to remind myself that we were in central […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/05/21/travel-the-amazon-spheres/feed/ 2 International Women’s Day https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/03/08/international-womens-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=international-womens-day https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/03/08/international-womens-day/#respond Sat, 09 Mar 2019 02:10:22 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35549 Every day at World Moms Network is International Women’s Day. March 8th happens to be the day the rest of the world celebrates as well. We are incredibly grateful to all of the amazing women from more than 30 countries around the world that contribute to this site and make this a community. We have […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2019/03/08/international-womens-day/feed/ 0 A Global Day of Giving! #GivingTuesday https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-day-giving-givingtuesday https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:30:00 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=35006 Giving Tuesday was created to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season. It has become an international movement around the holidays dedicated to giving, in the same way that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now synonymous with holiday shopping. After the frenzied commercialism of Black Friday sales (that now […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/11/28/global-day-giving-givingtuesday/feed/ 1 USA: Today Is World Polio Day 2017 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/10/24/usa-today-world-polio-day-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=usa-today-world-polio-day-2017 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/10/24/usa-today-world-polio-day-2017/#respond Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:23:07 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=34944 Last year I spoke at the United Nations Foundation Shot@Life Summit to a room of almost 200 advocates for global vaccines from all over the country. I had a story to tell, as many of us do, though you might not know it. The story of how Polio touched the lives of so many goes […]

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]]> https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/10/24/usa-today-world-polio-day-2017/feed/ 0 What We Did During WORLD MOMS Blogcation 2017 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/09/11/world-moms-summer-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-moms-summer-2017 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/2017/09/11/world-moms-summer-2017/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2017 05:00:35 +0000 https://worldmomsnetwork.com/?p=34831 You might have noticed we were a bit quiet on our website this summer as we took our annual “Blogcation.” Well, here is what some of us, World Moms, were up to during July and August of 2017!  Tara Bergman, USA “My family and I took a backpacking trip to an alpine lake in the […]

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