Women across the globe have their lives upturned by war each day. They are frequently forced to act as human lightning rods in conflicts within the home and beyond. Young women bear the brunt of this conflict.

Raja is a courageous Iraqi woman and mother of five raising her children in a refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She has been internally-displaced and single-parenting since 2016. Before the war, Raja’s husband worked for the Iraqi army, but he was forced to leave his job when ISIS took...

Mina* is a forty-five-year-old woman living in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. She graduated from Women for Women International’s program in March 2018 and is working towards creating her own small poultry farm using her newly-gained skills. The future looks bright for Mina, but that wasn’t...

Before the war in Syria, Amina lived with her parents and four siblings. She never had the chance to go to school, however she was happy to live with her parents and four siblings and have their support. Sadly, because her family couldn’t afford to support all the siblings, she was married when she...

Rose Ibrahim Boyi is 33 years old and the mother of four sons and a daughter. She joined Women for Women International ’s program in Plateau State after being displaced from her community due to violent conflict.

Here is how Women for Women International celebrated this day around the world.

Happiness can be hard to quantify. What does it mean to be happy? How do I become a happier person? These are questions that can be difficult to answer because different people find happiness in different things. Depending on our culture, or how we grew up, we have certain values that equate...