Tag: Advocacy

The YWCA of Queens hosted a “Know your Rights!” Event this past Friday, August 5th.  Students and community members joined in for a…

Yesterday on Thurs, July 30th, YWCA of Queens Board Member Chong Won Kim attended an event supporting comfort women at Queensborough Community College. The theme of the event was “We Will Not Be Silenced”…

This afternoon, over 80 people attended our event The Big Picture of Comfort Women, supporting those who were drafted for military sexual slavery by Japan during the WWII era. The event featured a showing…

Last week, we were super busy advocating for funding for our programs. On Tues, March 3rd, our ESL Program Manager Clifford Prisament took about 20 of our students all the way out to Albany…

ED Helen Kim represented the YWCA of Queens at Cities for CEDAW, part of NGO CSW/NY Beijing + 20 campaign and sponsored by the USNC-UN, to show support for NYC adopting the CEDAW…