Did you know…?
• Only 17% of national parliaments are made up of women.
• 70% of the nearly 1 billion illiterate people in the world are female.
• In the U.S., one in five women will be victims of rape in her lifetime.
• One woman dies every minute from preventable, pregnancy-related causes.
• Where women do the same work as men, women are paid 30 to 40 percent less.
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) is dedicated to training and empowering women to take on leadership and decision-making roles so that they may affect positive changes in their families, communities, and societies. For more information about us and our projects, or just to learn more about global women’s issues, please visit www.learningpartnership.org.
Take Action!
Claiming Equal Citizenship: The Campaign for Arab Women’s Right to Nationality
Read the campaign blog and sign the petition.
Fight Gender Apartheid! One Million
Signatures Campaign to End Discriminatory Laws in Iran
Sign
the Persian petition or the English petition.
