“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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Yanar is the co-founder and President of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). Since it's inception in 2003, the organization has campaigned for women's political, civic and human rights in Iraq. One of it's operations is running secret women's shelters in Baghdad. These safehouses ...read more
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Meet Chouchou Namegabe. Chouchou is an outspoken Congolese radio journalist and co-founder of the South Kivu Women’s Media Association (AFEM).
Chouchou grew up in Bukavu, eastern Congo listening to the transistor radio broadcast news from all over the Congo. She took notice of something odd—she ...read more
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Héritiers de la Justice was founded in 1991 following the repressive Mobutu Sese Seku regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The organization is dedicated to advancing peace, seeking justice for survivors and training generations of human rights defenders.
Héritiers de la Justice is ...read more
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Meet Solange Lwashiga Furaha. Solange is the Executive Secretary of the South Kivu Congolese Women’s Caucus for Peace.
Solange lives in Bukavu, a city in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Solange is a formidable activist with years of experience advocating for ...read more
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