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- By Lee Boeke Burke
Our ICUUW has been longing to develop close and lasting relationships with the UU women in the Philippines. I was planning to visit the Philippines this spring and was hoping to deepen some connections with UU women while there but sadly needed to postpone my trip. However, the desire to reach out to our women friends in the Philippines remained and the Membership Committee hatched a plan to send our greetings via a video to the Annual Conference of their UU Women’s Association (UUWA) which met in Dumaguete on March 7-8. Participating in the video were Renee Hills, Tina Huesing, Julie Steinbach, Rev. Maggie Yenoki and me, Lee.
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- By Rev. Denise Tracy, USA
At the 4th ICUUW Convocation this past September, women from all over the world met, talked, and dreamed of the world we wanted for women and girls. This is the defining purpose of ICUUW: improving the lives of women and girls. At lunch one day the ICUUW Outreach Committee, of which I am Co-Chair, sat talking. What are we dreaming of? What do we want to reach out to and bring home to the ICUUW? As we talked, we realized our dream was for Liberal Religious Women from all over the world, young and old, to be connected and to have common, life-changing experiences.
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- By ICUUW Board
At its March 2025 Board meeting the Board adopted the organization’s refreshed Strategic Plan which will guide our work for the next five years.
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- By ICUUW Staff and Volunteers
ICUUW Spring Seminar was held in NYC the weekend of March 15-16, 2025, during the United Nationals 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings. Our Tuesday Gatherings on April 8 and 10 focused on recollections of those events.
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- By ICUUW Staff
In December 2022, the UU Funding Program awarded a $10,000 grant and a $5,000 challenge grant to ICUUW for a project in collaboration with Sueños Sin Fronteras de Tejas (SSFTX), a Latinx, Women of Color-led advocacy collective. “Building BIPOC power in San Antonio, TX: Justice, Healing, and Resistance” promoted reproductive, immigrant, healing, and economic justice through community-led practices that support the livelihoods, visions, and leadership development of low-income, immigrant, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in San Antonio, TX.
The project offered trauma-informed educational workshops for 25 low-income, immigrant BIPOC – regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or immigration status – to enhance self-advocacy and community grassroots organizing for reproductive, immigrant, healing, and economic justice.
The protected spaces enabled participants to share, reflect, learn, and heal together in the service of strengthening individual and collective leadership for resilience, justice, healing, and transformation. Please see a report by SSFTX leaders: Sexual and Reproductive Health Workshops for the San Antonio Immigrant Community.
How can you further support this initiative?
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Learn how to advocate for the unique needs of pregnant and birthing undocumented and immigrant people
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Work with your congregation to adopt educational materials and resources from the Reproductive Justice curriculum of the Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity (SACReD)
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- By Zsófia Sztranyiczki, ICUUW Executive Director
From the onset of the war in Ukraine, our partners - the Hungarian Unitarian Church and its charity organization Gondviselés (in English: Providence) - have responded to the needs of Ukrainian war refugees.
In September 2024, Gondviselés volunteers Olivér Kiss, journalist, and Vladimir Skalski, refugee from Odesa living in Cluj/Kolozsvár, undertook a life-threatening mission to deliver aid (food, health equipment, adult diapers, defibrillators) to Southern Ukraine. The transfer of the goods took place at the border crossing in Orlivka (on the Ukrainian side of the Danube's northern Dobruja section), an area that was affected by drone strikes the night before. The donations were received by the director of the Liubashivka city hospital.
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- By Zsófia Sztranyiczki, ICUUW Executive Director
A week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, ICUUW launched a large-scale fundraising effort to supply immediate assistance to families fleeing the war in Ukraine, in partnership with Gondviselés Segélyszervezet (in English: Providence Charity Organization), the charity arm of the Hungarian Unitarian Church. Thanks to over 480 ICUUW members, individual donors, UU congregations and organizations, ICUUW has sent $112,075 in support of Gondviselés's vital work for Ukrainian war refugees.