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How Did Women Get Through 2020? Together.

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A Huge Step Forward for Women: Congrats, Kamala!

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Saratu's children stand around her, as she kneels and smiles to the camera

“A promise fulfilled”: Saratu’s Women for Women International journey

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Women suffer most from human trafficking—but they’re also the solution

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Alice smiles up at the camera from her stall, where she sells fish; Photo credit: Charles Atiki Lomodong

Women Pave the Path to Peace

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Book Club Series – Half the Sky

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A South Sudanese woman at the Join Me on the Bridge event looks into the camera with a white shirt that seems to read, "Unity, Peace, Prosperity, and Development"

26 years after the passage of the Violence Against Women Act and a history of progress, stalled reauthorization raises questions about women’s futures

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Shireen, a graduate of the Women for Women International program in Iraq, smiles facing off to the lower-right hand corner

“I have learned to be stronger” - Messages of Hope from Iraq

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Graduates at the Women's Opportunity Center in Nigeria stand wearing face masks and holding masks that they have made

A Stitch in Time Saves Lives

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ICYMI: Hope Beyond the Headlines Season One

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Image of book cover of Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman with the title "The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State"

Book Club Series – The Last Girl

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Saratu and her group practice social distancing during a COVID-19 awareness session

Beyond the 19th Amendment: 100 years later, COVID-19 reveals gender equality is even more urgent, complex, and expansive

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Change Agents Advance Women’s Opportunities in Afghanistan

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Standing at the Frontlines on World Humanitarian Day

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Graduate of training program in Iraq. Photo credit: Aidan O'Neill

“A new sun will rise on us all” - Messages of Hope From Iraq

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Book Club Series – The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

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At a workshop on COVID-19 in the DRC, staff learn about proper mask usage.

“Contagious diseases... are not new in the DRC”

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July Book Club - So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Book Club Series – Your Take on ‘So You Want to Talk About Race’

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A Social Distance, Social Justice Summer Reading List

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Josephine, a participant in South Sudan, sits with her son in front of her business. Photo credit: Charles Atiki Lomodong

Gender Equality Starts With Supporting Parents

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Disabled Action Group joins the South Sudan staff to host a training for visual and hearing impaired people

More Voices: Translating COVID-19 Awareness for People with Disabilities

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A woman from the Iraq program holds a small flame in her hands. Credit: Women for Women International

“Staying Strong When Facing Difficulty” - Messages of Hope from Iraq

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Change Agents in Nigeria during COVID-19
By: Monica Agene (Women for Women International) & Bukola Onyishi (Women for Women …

Solidarity and Power: Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Women’s Groups in Northern Nigeria

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July Book Club - So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Book Club Series – ‘So You Want to Talk About Race’ by Ijeoma Oluo

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Audry Shematsi, Country Director of Women for Women International - Democratic Republic of the Congo
By: Audry Shematsi

We are Congolese Women, and We Are Leaders

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Book Club Series: Your Take on 'Unbowed'

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Rwanda Women's Opportunity Center - Mask Making

Connected Without Contact: From the Classroom to the Community

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Amos and Alice

'My Love, Whom I Respect': Working With Men in Nigeria to Combat Domestic Violence

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Displaced Yezidi woman, Seve, and her family. Photo credit: Alison Baskerville

5 Facts About What Refugee Women Face

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Book Club Series – Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai

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Iraq participant writing - Photo credit: Emily Kinskey

“We all are connected around the world” - Messages of Hope from Iraq

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