16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is a global annual campaign that brings attention to gender violence and highlights the work of activists all over the world. Every year, each day from November 25th to December 10th, Nobel Women's Initiative highlights 16 grassroots women activists and peacebuilders working for peace, justice and equality. Subscribe to have the spotlights sent right to your inbox!
“No one will support me more than another woman human rights activist. Women have my back.”
Nedal Al-Salman is the Acting President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) documents and reports on human rights violations in Bahrain. Despite a ...read more
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“The more resistant and resilient we are, the more we push the state and people to change their mindset towards respecting women and human rights.”
Azza Soliman is an Egyptian lawyer, woman human rights defender and feminist. She is a co-founder of the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal ...read more
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“The Syrian regime actually invests in patriarchy. It does this to exclude women. And the regime benefits from patriarchy when women are excluded from political life and public life.”
Joumana Seif is a Syrian activist and lawyer. Her father, a dissident member of Parliament, went to ...read more
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“If we don’t help women in Yemen heal from their pain and wounds of war, we will not have a sustainable peace or healthy future generations.”
Misk Al-Junaid is the Executive Director of the Tawakkol Karman Foundation and co-founder of the Women4Yemen Network. The Tawakkol Karman ...read more
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“Women should not have to compromise and be ruled by the patriarchs of the country. Women should not have to compromise for religious or tribal values of the country. Feminism can save the future generations from these crimes.”
Yanar Mohammed is an Iraqi feminist and co-founder and ...read more
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“It is so easy to either victimize women or to see them as a checklist. But the work has to be deeper than that. We need our voices and narratives to exist.”
Mozn Hassan is the Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist Studies, an organization based in Egypt that uses a feminist approach ...read more
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The example of the Liberian women woke me up to the reality that women are building peace in their communities every day.”
Sarah Jewell is the Director of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa-USA. The Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa was established in 2012 by Liberian peace activist, trained social ...read more
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If you look across the region, the challenge in most of the Middle East is the same– patriarchy.”
Leila Alikarami is a globally-respected lawyer, human rights advocate and academic. In 2016, she was the Sakharov Fellow in Human Rights. In 2009, on behalf of the women of Iran and the One ...read more
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