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President’s Message - Introducing Jaime Beagan, CFUW Executive Director Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria Bylaw Amendments: Updated Update: Resolutions Process 2023 Reminder to Update Club Membership Numbers Save the Date for CFUW Meet and Greet Town Hall - February 16, 2023 @ 7-8:30 pm ET 8th Annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science Event - February 11th, 2023 @ 5:00PM CET Request for Proposals - International Service Project Announcement -International Development Week, February 5-11th, 2023 Participate in UNCSW! Sharing Corner “Education, Work, and Freedom: What can we do for women and girls in Afghanistan” Webinar Co-Hosted by CFUW-Ottawa and CFUW-Belleville Advocacy Updates CFUW Aurora/Newmarket International Women’s Day Event - The Shoe Project - March 8th @ 10:00AM ET CFUW St. John’s Speaker: Allison Bennett - February 14th @ 6:00PM ET on Zoom
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| | President’s Message
Introducing Jaime Beagan, CFUW Executive Director. |  | It is my pleasure to introduce Jaime Beagan, CFUW’s new Executive Director.
She started on Monday, February 6, 2023. Prior to joining CFUW, Ms. Beagan was the Director of Programs and Services, Students’ Association of MacEwan University in Edmonton Alberta; however, she has been working remotely from Ontario during the pandemic.
Jaime brings to her leadership role in CFUW a wealth of experience in operational management, strategic plan implementation, change management, program development and working with volunteers.
I would like to thank my Board colleagues namely, Kathryn Wilkinson, Barb DuMoulin, Kathy Wosnick and Linda Sestock who facilitated the recruitment process and a special thank you to Robin Jackson who is supporting a smooth transition.
Please attend the upcoming virtual meet and greet for an opportunity to welcome Jaime and meet the national staff team.
Joy Hurst National CFUW President
Link to Meet & Greet Registration | | Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria | CFUW National President letter to The Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly on the disaster in Türkiye and Syria.
On the ground report from Turkish University Women’s Association:
Dear GWI Board, NFAs, friends,
Thank you very much for your heartfelt messages from all over the world. We feel your solidarity.
7.7 and 7.8 magnitude two severe earthquakes struck 10 cities of our lovely country killing thousands of people (exp.50.000)and many more injured, some still waiting to be rescued.This is the disaster of the century, as the newspapers wrote. One of the biggest in Turkey since 1930s. 7 days of national mourning is announced.
TAUW have 3 branches (Adana, Gaziantep, Hatay) in the region affected by these earthquakes. Our members are safe but some lost their relatives, friends. We have around 60 scholarship students coming from the affected cities. Some have lost their family members and houses. Some are still praying for their relatives to be rescued. The temperature is below zero, aftershocks continue...
We created an earthquake fund, sent blankets and food to the region on the first day, donated some amount to our students' families and continue to help as much as we could.
Thank you to friends asking how to support, where to donate by mail or by social media . Below you can find our NFA accounts.
Warm Regards,
Dr. Başak Ovacık CIR, TAUW
EURO account Ziraat Bankası Name:Türk Üniversiteli Kadınlar Derneği
Branch code: 456 Beyoğlu /İstanbul
Iban:TR98000100456057582615037
USD account Ziraat Bankası
Branch code:456 Beyoğlu /İstanbul
Iban:TR380001000456057582615050 Links to the Turkish Association of University Women: https://www.tukd.org.tr/ https://www.tukd.org.tr/faaliyetlerimiz
Donate to the Canadian Red Cross - Donations matched by the Canadian government until February 22nd. | | Bylaw Amendments: Updated | Each year CFUW members can propose bylaw amendments or other motions for consideration at the AGM or policy sessions. This year, proposals must be received by CFUW by March 30th in order to be considered at the AGM, July 7-9, 2023.
What are member proposals? Motions of any kind. We usually think of motions discussed at a general meeting as being limited to Resolutions (in CFUW this means motions to establish advocacy policy) and Bylaw amendments. But Members (CFUW Clubs) can submit motions on a variety of topics. As long as they propose action that is within the purposes of CFUW or that addresses how CFUW conducts business (bylaw amendments, amendments to procedure, resolutions, dues motions, nominations*) member proposals can be considered at the AGM or a policy session.
Timeline for Member Proposals and Articles & Bylaws Process for AGM 2023:
March 30, 2023 Deadline to Submit Member Proposed Bylaw Amendments and Member proposals. Forward all motions to CFUW Executive Director at execdir@cfuw-fcfdu.ca and Articles and Bylaws Chair Fiorenza Albert-Howard fiorenza@shaw.ca. Follow the links for information and forms: April 10, 2023 Notice of any member proposed bylaw amendment received and board bylaw amendment proposals
April 12, 2023 walk-though of rationale for members and board bylaw amendments proposals, if there are submissions
May 10, 2023 Club deadline to submit amendment to the amendments of the bylaws
May 24 & 27, 2023 Town halls to review proposals/amendments/amendments to the amendments if there are any
All documents will be added to the CFUW members website at a later date.
*The Nominations Committee establishes the nominations timeline and distributes appropriate forms. | | Update on the Resolutions Process 2023 | Resolutions for the Policy Session in July 2023 are being reviewed currently by the CFUW Resolutions Committee. After the proposers have been contacted, and final versions have been compiled, the Proposed Resolutions will be translated and sent to Clubs on March 10. The Resolutions process for the period Feb. 9 to May 30 has been extracted from the main document Resolutions Information and Guidelines 2022-2023 and copied below. The full document is found here. February 9 to 23 - CFUW Resolutions Committee reviews submitted Resolutions and provides comments to proposers February 23 to March 10 - Proposers make changes based on comments from CFUW Resolutions Committee, confirm all Bibliography hyperlinks are active and submit Resolutions for publication. Staff arranges translation. March 10 - Resolutions published for Club review and possible amendments. March 10 to April 24 - Clubs Review Resolutions and send any amendments (Appendix D) to Resolutions Chair and Advocacy Coordinator who acknowledge same and arrange access by relevant Proposer. Proposers keep a record of all proposed amendments (Appendix E) including if accepted or not and for what reasons. A separate Guide for Clubs is found here. May 23 - Deadline for Proposers to advise Amenders regarding acceptance or rejection of their amendments. Publication of revised Resolutions to the Clubs May 30 - Proposers and Amenders Workshop with Clubs to discuss amended Resolutions and explain why proposed amendments were accepted or not.
To look back at the Resolution Intents for 2023, as published November 25, 2022 check here. | | Reminder to Update Club Membership Numbers | A reminder to please enter your club membership numbers as soon as possible. We need those numbers to start preparing the 2023-2024 Budget.
To enter your numbers please go to https://cfuwmembership.org/Clubs/ClubMembership.aspx
If you have any problems, please contact Elizabeth Malcolm at: memberservices@cfuw-fcfdu.ca.
Susan Lane VP Finance | |  | To register for the CFUW National Meet & Greet Town Hall, please click HERE or on the above image. | | The 8th Annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science: February 11th, 2023 |  | We are still looking to hear from more women in science! If you are a CFUW member and a woman working in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), please reach out to Barbara DuMoulin, VP International Relations at barbdumoulin@gmail.com. | | Request for Proposals for CFUW’s next International Service ProjectInternational Development Week - February 5-11th, 2023
Each year, CFUW clubs raise funds for an international project or program to empower women and girls in the global South. CFUW is currently seeking proposals from the international development community for the next cycle of fundraising to begin during International Development week (February 5-11, 2023) for one year.
Read the full Request for Proposals here
The Application is now open - Apply here Deadline: April 3rd
So far, CFUW clubs have raised $12,342 (and counting) for CFUW ISP 2023 Partner, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan! A final tally will be shared at the end of the fundraising cycle. Thank you for your generosity for the Darakht-E Danesh Library (DDL) Fund! | | Not a CFUW delegate to UNCSW67?You can still participate! | The UN Commission on the Status or Women, UNCSW67, will be held in New York from March 6-17, 2023.
Every year a priority theme as well as a review theme is chosen. This year the priority theme is "innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls". The pandemic severely disrupted education so this year’s focus is particularly apt. The review theme is “challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-second session)”.
Who goes to the UNCSW? Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as CFUW.
Access to the UN headquarters is restricted to those attending in person. However, the parallel events hosted by NGOs will be in-person, hybrid or virtual. Anyone can register for the virtual events! You do NOT need to be a CFUW delegate. To register for the parallel events, you must create an account on the CSW NGO/NY portal here.
There are over 650 events being added to the CSW NGO platform – Whova. (Updated link.) When you log into the platform, you will see a tab called Agenda. This is where the sessions are listed.
What about the governmental sessions being held at the UN? You can view these on the UN Web TV, some live, some recorded. No registration is required. Check the listings on UN Web TV.
Mark your calendar: CAMEUS (Canada, Mexico, USA) will be hosting a virtual event on Wednesday, March 15th at 3 pm ET called Digital Education: Lessons Learnt and Innovations Introduced. We will have a speaker from each CAMEUS country. We hope you join us for this event.
Our CFUW parallel event will be in-person on Tuesday, March 7th, Even Odds in Digital Education for Marginalized Women and Girls.
There are many sessions being hosted by our international partners on this theme of digital education and gender equity. Watch for announcements as details become available.
Barbara DuMoulin VP International Relations | |  | “Education, Work, and Freedom: What can we do for women and girls in Afghanistan” Webinar Co-Hosted by CFUW-Ottawa and CFUW-Belleville
The first GWI Conversation of 2023, organized by the network of GWI-supporting Clubs in Canada and co-hosted by CFUW-Ottawa and CFUW-Belleville, was held on Wednesday, January 25th. This session explored the topic of “Education, Work, and Freedom: What can we do for women and girls in Afghanistan”. Over 170 participants worldwide attended this event, with the assistance of Graduate Women International.
The Conversation was opened by Fawzia Koofi, courageous and long-time Afghan women’s rights activist, past Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, and one of four women on the 42-member Afghan and Taliban Peace and Negotiation Team. Koofi provided attendees with a detailed description of life in Afghanistan before and after the Taliban took over in August 2021 and highlighted the very serious problems now facing women and girls – problems that only continue to worsen with each passing month.
Her presentation was followed by breakout group discussions on what more we can do to advocate for and support women and girls in Afghanistan. Actions suggested fall into the following categories: 1) International Pressure on the Taliban; 2) International Partnerships and Networking; 3) Social Awareness Initiatives; 4) Creation of Accessible Educational Resources, and; 5) Integration of Afghan Refugees into Host Communities.
Click here for a recording of Fawzia Koofi’s presentation.
You can read the full summary report of the session HERE | | Advocacy Updates | | |  | Please join CFUW Aurora/Newmarket as we celebrate International Women’s Day, March 8, at 10:00 AM. We are partnering with The Shoe Project for to bring you a dynamic virtual presentation.
Three alumni of the project will tell their brave and moving stories utilizing shoes as a metaphor in describing their journeys to new lives in Canada.
We welcome these speakers for our IWD event: Umut Duyga Uzunel came to Canada in 2017 to escape political unrest in Turkey. Umut reunited with her children 18 months later. She is now studying naturopathic medicine as an additional way to help people in need. Teenaz Javat came to Canada in 1997. She is a journalist, by blood Indian, by bond Pakistani and by choice Canadian. Among many of her duties, Teenaz writes headlines for a living at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Versushka Samarkina, now an ESL instructor moved from Russia to Canada in 2009. She has a PhD in Literature and more than 20 years of teaching experience.
To register for the virtual presentation, please contact us at cfuw.info@gmail.com to register. | | CFUW St. John’s Speaker: Linda Souter Award Winner Allison Bennett |  | February 14th, 2023 6:00pm Eastern Zoom link here
Allison Bennett will be our speaker for our February 14, 2023 meeting. She is the recipient of the CFUW Charitable Trust Linda Souter Award, named in honour of Linda Souter, the only member of CFUW who has served both as President of CFUW and of Graduate Women International (then IFUW). The Award is valued at $6000 and is given to a masters or doctoral student studying in the area of the Humanities. Allison has received both her B.A. and M.A in History from MUN, as well as her B.Ed. (Intermediate/Secondary Education). She is currently working on her PhD. In History.
Allison will be speaking about her doctoral research, which examines the nature of British, Australia, and New Zealand servicemen’s sexual encounters with civilian women in First World War Macedonia and the Middle East. She says "These sexual encounters threatened servicemen’s health; their masculine, imperial, and military identity; challenged social mores; and jeopardized the future of empire." This project uses archival records from England, Australia, and New Zealand, and analyses the intersection of gender, sexuality, race and racism, medicine and disease, and empire. | |  | | | Club Newsletters | | | | |
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