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Women’s lived experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo expose what sexual violence in conflict truly looks like, and what we must do to end it.
World AIDs Day is a significant reminder of Women for Women International’s mission to provide women with the tools to fight health challenges. Since the inception of WfWI in the Enugu and Plateau states of Nigeria, our program has given education on hygiene, nutrition, and infectious diseases, most...
Yesterday, The Gates Foundation released their annual letter on their work that saves and improves lives in developing countries. We are as always impressed with the data-driven approach they take, and are this year equally excited to see that they have chosen to highlight issues that are central to...
WfWI’s partner, Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF), based at the Khanke IDP camp in the Duhok Province in Northern Iraq, caters to the needs of 640 Yezidi women, most of whom are former ISIS hostages.
World peace. It is most often discussed as a fuzzy, imaginative, utopian concept, or a beauty pageant cliché. Ask anyone working internationally, however, and you will quickly find that the presence or absence of peace is felt in a very real way by millions of people every day.
Breaking Silos: Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals A year ago September our world leaders committed us all to eradicate poverty by 2030, making a commitment in the Sustainable Development Goals to ‘leave no one behind’ and ‘reach the furthest behind first’. They explicitly recognized the...
August 3rd marks the commemoration of the 2014 genocide perpetrated by ISIS against the Yezidis in Sinjar and Nineveh Plains, Iraq. It has been two years since the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” conducted a genocidal campaign against the Yezidis in their homeland of Sinjar, in northern Iraq. During...
In a small, garage-like building in northern Iraq, Seve wakes up each morning not knowing how she’ll provide for her six children. Her husband is injured and unable to work. Their only income comes from the few vegetables her 12-year-old son can sell. Two years ago, they and thousands of other...
Congratulations to Dr. Denis Mukwege for being named one of TIME's 100 most influential people! The 61-year-old Nobel-prize nominated Congolese gynecologist founded the Panzi Hospital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 1999 to help women and girls survivors of sexual violence and rape...
War has taken a lot from Solange. Her husband and three of her children were all killed by rebels, and she was raped four times by armed men in her home village in the DRC. After she was raped the fourth time, Solange became pregnant. Determined to move forward with her life, she named her daughter...