Pilar Carolina Arrese Alcala is a psychologist who works with the highly respected Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Prodh (Centro Prodh), a human rights organization based in Mexico City. For the last six years Pilar has worked alongside Centro Prodh to educate the public on human rights. ...read more
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Claudia Medina is a sexual violence and torture survivor and member of Breaking the Silence: All Together Against Torture—a campaign launched in 2014 by 11 brave women survivors of sexual violence from the city of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico. The campaign denounces and demands the end of Mexican ...read more
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Rosa Emilia Salamanca is the director of the Corporación de Investigación y Acción Social y Económia (CIASE), a Colombian peace building organization with a special focus on women’s rights and strengthening public policy. Rosa is a life-long peace activist who has dedicated herself to strengthening ...read more
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In 2009 three women’s rights organizations in Guatemala—Mujeres Transformando el Mundo (MTM), Unión Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas (UNAMG) and Equipo de Estudios Comunitarios y Acción Psicosocial (ECAP)—came together to form the Alliance to End Silence and Impunity. The Alliance works to support ...read more
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“My grandmother always sent us outside to play. We didn’t sit in front of the TV – we swam, climbed over hills and went looking for snakes. We felt connected to Mother Earth. A lot of people are disconnected. They put themselves above the ecosystem instead of seeing themselves as part of it, and ...read more
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“We must stop the blood shed. We must stop the suffering.” – Dr. Rola Hallam
Meet Dr. Rola Hallam a British-Syrian doctor and Medical Director with Hand in Hand for Syria, a Syrian-led humanitarian and development organization working in Syria to provide life-saving and life sustaining essential ...read more
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Women in Black (WIB) is a world-wide feminist network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence. It was founded in 1988 in Israel as campaign to peacefully end Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The network ...read more
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Meet Rada Borić, a renowned international feminist, professor and peace activist, best known for creating positive change in the lives of women in her native Croatia and around the world. She is currently the Executive Director of Croatia’s Centre for Women’s Studies, where she also lectures on ...read more
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The Association of Citizens to Combat Human Trafficking and all Forms of Gender-Based Violence (ATINA) is a Serbian women and children’s rights organization working to end gender-based discrimination and violence.
ATINA has been tackling the issue of human trafficking since 2004, providing ...read more
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“Together, women of the third world, the first world, the middle world, this one globe, have to be united and work together to bring the shift and bring the end to sexual violence against women.”
Meet BINALAKSHMI NEPRAM. Bina is a disarmament activist-writer from the Manipur state in Northeast ...read more
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Meet Yifat Susskind, Executive Director of MADRE and long-time activist who works to make human rights a reality for all people. Before joining the staff of MADRE, she was part of a joint Israeli-Palestinian human rights organization in Jerusalem, using journalism, advocacy and political organizing ...read more
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Meet Dr. Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey - Guatemala’s first female Attorney General. She is a respected criminal law specialist and judge with over 18 years of experience and is also the founder of a human rights organization, the Institute for Comparative Criminal Studies of Guatemala (ICCPG).
Since ...read more
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