Editor's note: Our interview with Ms. Zapata has been divided into two parts. The first focuses on the work she does to abolish FGM and can be found here. The second looks more broadly at her role as a leader for women in her community.
Solani Zapata acts on the Risaralda Indigenous Regional ...read more
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Editor's note: Our interview of Solani Zapata has been divided into two parts. The first focuses on the work she does to abolish FGM. The second looks more broadly at her role as a leader for women in her community and can be found here.
The Emberá are an indigenous group in Colombia and Panama ...read more
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“In Somalia, I want to see peace. I want to see justice. I want to see a rule of law and good policy for women and their rights. I want protection for women to be taken seriously, and I want to see this in my lifetime.”
Fartuun Adan grew up in Somalia and lived there through the war until 1999 ...read more
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“I hope to make people remember all that the forest has given us, and that it is our responsibility to protect it.”
Mariamah “Mayi” Achmad, based in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, is the Palung Foundation’s Coordinator for Environment Awareness Education, and runs the organization Sekolah Lahan ...read more
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“Who inspires me? All the unknown female journalists working inside Syria right now that no one knows about.”
Milia Eidmouni is a freelance journalist who left Damascus for Jordan in 2013 due to political pressure. Together with her colleague Rula Asad, she founded the Syrian Female Journalists ...read more
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Martha Fernanda Sánchez Soler is the co-founder and president of the Mesoamerican Migrant Movement.The Movement is a Mexican-based network that responds to the risks facing migrants, particularly Central Americans, in transit through Mexico to and within the United States. As President of the ...read more
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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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