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I’m Hanna Nussair, a current Master of Human Rights student at the University of Minnesota concentrating in the rights of women and girls. My graduate research focuses on gender empowerment, educational equity, and eliminating violence against women. While working on my masters, I am a consultant...
16 Days of Activism is a worldwide campaign to end violence against women and girls. The campaign launches each year on November 25th – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – and runs through December 10th – World Human Rights Day. Here are 16 facts you need to know about...
GBV, particularly violence against women and girls, is the most pervasive form of human rights violations and prevents women and girls from reaching their full potential. It is an obstacle to women living dignified lives, free from fear.
This article is authored by Ambassador Cathy Russell, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues and member of the board of directors of Women for Women International.
This is why Women for Women International provides a platform where women attend a 12-month long training program help empower themselves, with emphasis on health and wellbeing, economic and social development, decision making and building support networks.
Beatrice is a mother who has suffered the loss of 5 of her children. In honor of Mother’s Day, we are sharing Beatrice’s story in her own words so that she can tell us how the Women for Women International program has allowed her to take better care of her children and her family. This is her story:
Yesterday Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down with CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour to discuss the importance of women involvement in peace and security. What much of the news media missed was the emphasis that she put on investing in women’s rights in the United...
Women for Women International (WfWI) began its work in Rwanda in 1997 when many of the wounds of genocide were still open. We bore witness to the efficiency of the government in healing some of the physical scars of the violence, but what remained and what continues to haunt local communities is the...
In light of International Women’s Day next week, we would like to draw attention to the issues of insecurity and the ways in which this affects the women we work with. The world is changing rapidly and the role that women have in creating and sustaining peace is also changing. Sometimes, we are not...
By Jenna Presta, Women for Women International Communications Intern Twenty-four years ago, thirty women affected by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina enrolled in Women for Women International's very first training program. Their country was at war, and women were suffering at the hands of physical...