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Global Network of Women’s Shelters, UN Women, Meta and other organizations launch Lila.help as the first global directory of support…
On March 14th 2022, the digital CSW66 parallel event ‘Worldwide Women’s Helplines Project: Where We Are’ took place. During…
THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF WOMEN’S SHELTERS LAUNCHES LILA.HELP: A GLOBAL DIRECTORY OF SUPPORT SERVICES FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE. After…
Continental/regional networks and a network of First Nations Women’s Shelters form the heart of the Global Network of Women’s Shelters.
These networks differ in their stage of development: some of them are established networks, others just started. All networks had a continental meeting at the 3rd World Conference of Women’s Shelters in November 2015. The Asian and European Network had their (pre)conference a day before the World Conference in the Hague. The MENA network and the First nations Women’s shelters network joined GNWS during the conference in 2015.
