WomenAID Live! Concert

WomenAID Live! is a worldwide concert, a call to action to alleviate poverty and hunger in the world, and to put this issue front row center on everyone's radar.
WomenAID Live! will feature the world's incomparable artists and foremost visionary leaders who present a bold and profoundly moving look at the state of the World's Women. WomenAID Live! is a global humanitarian call to take action against extreme poverty, global AIDS, and widespread violence against women. WomenAID Live! will deliver a ground-breaking global benefit to raise millions of dollars to support our strategic partners' efforts to empower women in the fight against poverty.

This is Humanity's Defining Moment

At Live8, millions of people came together with one message: Make Poverty History. It was a defining moment for the world, a moving testament to the will of humanity and to the universal power of music. Many promises were kept. Many were not.

It's Time to Deliver NOW

"Economic growth and political democracy can not achieve their full potential unless the female half of humanity participates on an equal footing with the male," the Nobel committee said, Oct 13, 2006 upon awarding the Nobel Peace Price to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen bank.

"Investing in Women is Investing In a Better World" I have witnessed how investing in women's leadership and participation has brought about economic and social transformation. Noeleen Heyzer. UNIFEM. Executive Director.

View UNIFEM Letter of Support

UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for women. It's budget is approx. $60 million annually, the lowest funded of the U.N. agencies, with a mandate to help women and children in over a hundred countries worldwide. www.unifem.org

Join the 'One' Campaign today. www.one.org. Join the Red Campaign to fight AIDS in Africa. www.joinred.com

Make Poverty History, Empower Women

Women are at the heart of our efforts to improve health, education and economic opportunity because experience shows that a woman's achievements yield dramatic benefits for her entire family. CARE works in 70 countries to empower women in the fight against poverty.

Watch the I am Powerful Video www.care.org

Our Vision
A world in which women and girls everywhere enjoy the freedom to achieve their fullest potential, and to live secure from the dangers of poverty, AIDS, social injustice and violence.

Our Mission

To Use the Power of Media to empower and advance the leadership role of women, and raise awareness to promote action for the protection of women's and girl's rights. To Empower Women as Social Change Agents.

Watch the Video

World's Women Have an Advocate
Stephen Lewis, the U.N. envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa proposed before the U.N. coherence committee the creation of a powerful new UN agency to defend women's rights, health
and security with an annual budget of 1 to 2 billion dollars.

"In the midst of this carnage of women - who are losing their lives in such heartbreaking numbers - there has to be something in the world that has a voice for them, and an operational force on the ground that can respond. They make up more than half of the world's population but efforts to address their problems have been a travesty."
Stephen Lewis - View the Article

"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance." Kofi Annan - United Nations Secretary General