Meet Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú.
They are indigenous women of the Me'phaa nation from the state of Guerrero, Mexico. In 2002, members of the militia raped and tortured Inés and Valentina, who were 25 and 17 at the time. Since then the two women have courageously struggled ...read more
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16 Days of Activism 2010
Day 15: Spotlighting Shirin Batshon-Khoury
Meet SHIRIN BATSHON-KHOURY. Shirin is a Palestinian activist who works for the Kayan Feminist Organization in Israel. The organization aims to empower Arab women in Israel and protect their rights.
The founders of Kayan felt that Arab women living in Israel experience a kind of ...read more
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Spotlighting Thawra Staiti
Meet THAWRA STAITI. Thawra is a volunteer with Freedom Theatre in Jenin, in the West Bank of Palestine. Freedom Theatre aims to provide empowerment and healing to children and youth of the Jenin Refugee Camp whose displacement is a result of the occupation. It offers them a respite from the unstable ...read more
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Day 13: Spotlighting Naeima Agabna Awad El Said
Meet NAEIMA AGABNA AWAD EL SAID.
Naeima is an civil society and human rights activist from Khartoum, Sudan. She has been a member of the Sudanese Women's Empowerment for Peace (SuWEP) organization since 1997, and serves as a peace-building and conflict resolution trainer. Naeima is the General ...read more
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Day 12: Spotlighting Maria Solis Garcia
Meet MARIA SOLIS GARCIA.
Maria is a feminist law professor and women’s rights advocate from Guatemala. Maria is the founder of La Cuerda, an organization which fosters political partnerships with other social movements, researches in tandem with the ICC, and produces the only regular feminist ...read more
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Day 11: Spotlighting Gilda Rivera
Meet GILDA RIVERA. Gilda is a psychologist and the founder of the Women Rights Center in Honduras. Her past work experience has included public politics and gender studies. She has been a member of the Feministas en Resistencia (FER) since the Honduran coup d’etat on June 28, 2009.
Her work with ...read more
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Day 10: Spotlighting Lona James Elia
Meet LONA JAMES ELIA.
She is a Southern Sudanese activist and member of the Sudanese Women's Empowerment for Peace (SuWEP) organization. In 1998 Lona became one of the first women to participate in peace talks between the government of Southern Sudan and the Sudan People Liberation Movement ...read more
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Day 9: Spotlighting Ma Pu Sein
Meet MA PU SEIN. She was a participant in the 2010 International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women in Burma, an event co-hosted by the Women’s League of Burma and the Nobel Women’s Initiative. Ma Pu Sein was featured in "This Is My Witness", a film about the Tribunal produced by the Nobel Women's ...read more
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