"Yemeni women take a lot of bullets from men. They take on a lot of responsibilities and play a key role in reintegrating kids recruited by extremists and militants. Protecting our kids and reintegrating is the way we are going to heal our communities."
Fadia Thabet is a Yemeni peace activist. ...read more
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“I believe in thoughtful cinema—films that make you think, criticize and question yourself and your surroundings.”
Filmmaker and activist, Laura Baumeister DeMontis, was born in Nicaragua in 1983, in the midst of a revolution spanning three decades. She became interested in ...read more
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“You have to be a loud national voice if you’re ever to get anything done.”
Shireen Huq is a true mother of Bangladeshi feminism. The organization she helped found, Naripokkho, began in 1983, just 12 years after Bangladesh won its own independence. It has become a leading ...read more
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“Every time that I feel my life is at risk, or there’s a threat to my family, the attempt to dissuade me from doing my work motivates me to keep going ahead.”
Sandra Maribel Sánchez is a veteran journalist in Honduras, and was one of the first female reporters to cover Congress. ...read more
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"The great gift and power of art is that it enters and stays with people. It gives them a different way to hold the truth in their bodies."
Poet, playwright, theatre artist and activist, Shailja Patel has spent her life examining – and defying – borders. Born in Kenya of ...read more
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"Women are often at the helm of historical movements, yet they remain invisible in our history books. And that has deep consequences for how we look at and understand history, our present, our future, and who our leaders are."
Suhad Babaa is the Executive Director of Just ...read more
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“Our parents lived in war, we were born in war, and some of us are ourselves having children in war. But we all have hope.”
Riya William Yuyada was born in Sudan in 1991, into a decades-old civil war. Just months later, her mother fled with her and her elder sister to her own ...read more
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“I was released, but I was not freed.”
Iran may be one of the world’s most dangerous places to be an activist, and no one knows that better than Nasrin Sotoudeh. The country’s most prominent human rights defender has spent her life speaking truth to power, at enormous personal ...read more
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“When I hear the voices of local women, grass roots women, women who are daily affected with the challenges of climate change and the challenges of how to take care of their families - they inspire me.”
Prominent Nigerian environmental activist Priscilla Achakpa became a wife ...read more
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"The struggle against patriarchal Syrian structure is also international – the struggle of all women in a world that gives very little attention to the voices of women and girls. Our struggle is not going to stop."
Mariam Jalabi was born into nonviolent resistance to the ...read more
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“The work was painful to me, but someone had to do it. As a member of my community, it was my duty.”
Since 2014, Rohingya lawyer and educator Razia Sultana has spoken out for the rights of her people, and worked with some of the 725,000 Rohingya refugees now in Cox’s Bazar, ...read more
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence starts Sunday! Over the next two weeks we will be profiling extraordinary women activists working globally for bold action!
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