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Activist Spotlights

Meet Andréa Medina Rosas, Mexico

Meet ANDRÉA MEDINA ROSAS—feminist human rights lawyer and independent consultant. Andréa courageously works towards defending murdered and disappeared women, many who come from Ciudad Juárez, a city on the border of Mexico and the United States. Starting in the 1990s, Ciudad Juárez earned the  ...read more

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Posted In: Activist Spotlights, 2012 Delegation to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala

Meet Ma Pu Sein, Burma

Ma Pu Sein was a participant in the 2010International 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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Meet Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú, Mexico

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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Meet Zaynab El Sawi, Sudan

Zaynab is the Coordinator of Sudanese Women Empowerment for Peace (SuWEP). SuWEP has a strong vision of a united women’s movement in Sudan that respects internal diversity and contributes to democracy, development, justice, gender equality and inclusiveness in a society based on sustainable  ...read more

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Meet Diana Dolev, Israel

New Profile is a grassroots organization dedicated to changing the profile of Israeli society from a militarized community to an actively peacemaking one. Through lectures, media, conferences and special events Diana and volunteers like her promote demilitarization education. The organization also  ...read more

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Posted In: 2010 Delegation to Israel and Palestine, Activist Spotlights

Meet Aymara Pineda, Nicaragua

Aymara works for Puntos de Encuentro (Meeting Places) in Nicaragua. Puntos de Encuentro has been working to raise awareness about human rights issues impacting women and youth since 1991. Through radio and television shows, and a print magazine, their work reaches more than a million young people in  ...read more

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