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Sara Bowcutt, our Managing Director, explains the key findings of the recently unveiled ‘From Asking to Action' research, which provides a rare glimpse into the perspectives of women living in conflict areas.
Podcast
The Pilot House, a program launched by Women for Women International is making a major difference in the lives of women in South Sudan. The program teaches women climate-smart farming techniques, improving food security and economic opportunities for families
Article
The Hill interviews Payvand Seyedali, our Afghanistan Country Director, and brings attention to the heartbreaking reality Afghan women face under the new restrictive laws.
Article
Latest bans on Afghan women are further silencing their voices and attempting to erase them from public life. Article 13 of the decree says it is mandatory for a woman to veil her body and face at all times in public.
Video
Sara Bowcutt, our Managing Director, and Khalida Lazgeen, our Program Officer in Iraq, discussed with Nuala McGovern of BBC the current situation of Yazidi women in Iraq.
Podcast
Laurie Adams, CEO of Women for Women International, has been featured in the 2024 Forbes 50 Over 50 list in the Impact category.
Article
The prolonged nature of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land has meant women have to make life altering decisions from a very early age, the country director for Women for Women International in Palestine tells MEMO, their struggle is unique, but women have been instrumental in rebuilding and hea
Article
The human rights organisation Equality Now studied family law and practices in 20 African countries and found progress in recent decades, but said inequalities persisted in marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, and property laws.
Article
Marie Clarke, our Chief Programs Officer, and Fatima Ahmed, our Sudanese partner, discussed with @sabcnews the Sudan conflict, now the world's largest displacement crisis. They stressed the urgency of international attention.
Video
Fatima Ahmed, Zenab for Women in Development founder, an organization that promotes the rights of women and girls and our partner in Sudan, talks to Splinter about the tragedies of a country that is now entering the second year of civil war.
Video
For centuries, male land inheritance in the DRC has stymied women’s access to their own livelihoods. Now, in one region, women are pushing back – opening up the possibility of economic independence.
Article
Correspondent for the NGO Women for Women, Madlien tells the story how she lost her sister and four-month-old niece and had to be separated from her husband and daughter since the conflict began on October 7.
Article
Charitable giving to nonprofits serving women and girls represents less than 2% of giving in the U.S.
Article
Every day is a day to celebrate being a woman. More and more, we see our voices amplified around the world, in politics, business, sports, fashion, art, and entertainment—all fields that men have historically dominated.
Article
Payvand, from Women for Women International, said there is a sense of 'deep sadness in the air' in Afghanistan, as millions of women live behind closed doors.
Article
In this episode of “The Arc,” ECSP’s Angus Soderberg and Claire Doyle interview Nisha Singh and Kavin Mirteekhan from Women for Women International.
Article
The lack of adequate clean water and safe sanitation has already led to disease outbreaks and is compounding the "already dire humanitarian situation" for women and their families in Gaza, Amani Mustafa, Country Director of WfWI Palestine, told The Hill, amid fears of a possible "catastrophic" groun
Article
Jessica Chastain partners with second-hand fashion marketplace Vestiaire Collective donating proceeds to Women for Women International.
Article
Kenya Television Network (KTN) recently had a stirring discussion with Dr. Leila Hussein, an International Board Member at Women for Women International. The discussion focused on the 16 Days of Activism and investing in the mental health of survivors of violence.
Video
Access to land and natural resources is essential to the survival of women in eastern DRC; yet the culture discriminates against them by denying them the right to acquire plots of land. In the Nyangezi region, around a hundred women have started to acquire land despite these barriers.
Article
We are horrified by the atrocities on women and their families in the Israel-Hamas war. We are mourning all the lives lost. We grieve the brutal massacre of civilians in Israel and we fear for the safety of the hostages.
Update
Conflict
Zainab Salbi, Co-Founder of Women for Women International, has been recognized as a recipient of the prestigious 2023 TIME100 Impact Award.
Award
Grace Muteteri, a graduate of Women for Women Rwanda’s Stronger Women, Stronger Nations Program, was recently interviewed by CGTN Africa for her idea to create soccer balls as part of her training at the Women’s Opportunity Center in Urugo (WOC).
Video
KTN News Kenya recently had an insightful conversation with Annastacia Olembo, Associate Director of Gender Equality and Social Power at Women for Women International.
Video
In one of their latest episodes, Girl Talk Afrique Podcast featured a conversation with a member of our staff after stopping by Women for Women International's exhibition at the Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
Podcast
Our CEO, Laurie Adams, was recently featured on BBC NewsDay to discuss the incredible strength and determination of Afghan women, as well as the profound impact of our training centers in Afghanistan amid growing restrictions against women’s rights.
Podcast
An independent report from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) details how the Bloomberg Philanthropies Women’s Economic Development Initiative is helping women develop marketable skills in Rwanda, Nigeria and the DRC and how it can be replicated in other countries.
Update
Women's empowerment
During the 63rd FIFA Congress, Gianni Infantino, President of the world football governing body, spoke passionately about a ball made by rural women in Kayonza District, urging participants to buy each at $1,000 (Rwf1.1 million) as a way of supporting them.
Article
Women's Opportunity Center - Rwanda
Women's empowerment
Women's rights
SABC News recently stopped by our screening of our VR film, "Through Dada's Eyes" and spoke with Women for Women International CEO Laurie Adams as well as our guest of honor, Nigerian actor, activist and author, Stella Damascus.
Video
CBS Now speaks with CEO Laurie Adams and Bukola Onyishi, Country Director for Nigeria about Women for Women International.
Video