“No one will support me more than another woman human rights activist. Women have my back.”
Nedal Al-Salman is the Acting President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) documents and reports on human rights violations in Bahrain. Despite a ...read more
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“The more resistant and resilient we are, the more we push the state and people to change their mindset towards respecting women and human rights.”
Azza Soliman is an Egyptian lawyer, woman human rights defender and feminist. She is a co-founder of the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal ...read more
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“The Syrian regime actually invests in patriarchy. It does this to exclude women. And the regime benefits from patriarchy when women are excluded from political life and public life.”
Joumana Seif is a Syrian activist and lawyer. Her father, a dissident member of Parliament, went to ...read more
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“If we don’t help women in Yemen heal from their pain and wounds of war, we will not have a sustainable peace or healthy future generations.”
Misk Al-Junaid is the Executive Director of the Tawakkol Karman Foundation and co-founder of the Women4Yemen Network. The Tawakkol Karman ...read more
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“Women should not have to compromise and be ruled by the patriarchs of the country. Women should not have to compromise for religious or tribal values of the country. Feminism can save the future generations from these crimes.”
Yanar Mohammed is an Iraqi feminist and co-founder and ...read more
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“It is so easy to either victimize women or to see them as a checklist. But the work has to be deeper than that. We need our voices and narratives to exist.”
Mozn Hassan is the Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist Studies, an organization based in Egypt that uses a feminist approach ...read more
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The example of the Liberian women woke me up to the reality that women are building peace in their communities every day.”
Sarah Jewell is the Director of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa-USA. The Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa was established in 2012 by Liberian peace activist, trained social ...read more
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If you look across the region, the challenge in most of the Middle East is the same– patriarchy.”
Leila Alikarami is a globally-respected lawyer, human rights advocate and academic. In 2016, she was the Sakharov Fellow in Human Rights. In 2009, on behalf of the women of Iran and the One ...read more
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We needed to be flexible [as women activists] and bend to the wind. With our work, we were able to navigate dangerous spaces and yet also open spaces for women.”
Fahima Hashim is a Sudanese feminist and activist, now living in Canada. She was the founder and director of the Salmmah Women’s ...read more
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This authoritarian regime is empowering patriarchy in the society. It is a vicious circle for women with institutional discrimination and social, religious and cultural restrictions for Saudi women.”
Omaima Al Najjar is a Saudi blogger, activist, nurse and physician. She was born and ...read more
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It is unacceptable for a machine to decide, basically on its own, whether a person lives or dies.”
Wanda Muñoz is a long-time activist working on humanitarian disarmament, improving the lives of people with disabilities and providing assistance to victims of war. She is a member of the ...read more
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We were once told that we couldn’t participate in the peace negotiations because there weren’t enough chairs in the room. We’ve heard the most ridiculous excuses. We’ve also been told that we can’t participate because the warring parties don’t want us there. But that didn’t stop us. We want to be ...read more
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