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Around the world, women in 155 countries face legal restrictions on the economic opportunities available to them, according to the recent World Bank Group’s report Women, Business and the Law 2016, which highlights the challenges women face in the global economy and underscores the need for legal...

As global leaders adopt a new development agenda, Women for Women International is sharing lessons with partners and allies to ensure women in the poorest countries are not left behind.

As the 15th anniversary of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325 nears on October 31st, the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) released a new report highlighting the progress to date using case studies and reflections from global leaders while bringing attention to...

"My wife is not educated, but now I am helping her study," says Mohammad* with a smile, during an interview at our offices in Afghanistan. A young man from Kabul, Mohammad says that within the last few months, he started teaching his wife how to read, write, and count at home.

“Men must stand shoulder to shoulder with women. Men have a responsibility to speak out in their own communities for the women they love.”

Over the past year, more than 37,000 women have begun to rebuild their lives thanks to your support. Below we're sharing the stories of five of these inspiring women and the many things they say they're thankful for this year.

This Giving Tuesday, six WfWI graduates want to tell you how owning a goat has udderly changed their lives! Enjoy our billyant goat puns and these inspiring stories as our gift to you. And give a goat through our Gifts That Give Back Campaign to help even more women build a new future for their...

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.

I thought only men have rights to everything. I never believed that I have rights.

Karima* lost her father-in-law and her home during war in Afghanistan, but she will not let conflict take away her resilience.

In her small shop in the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Center, 65-year-old Fazila sells flowers to mourners and visitors who come to honor and remember the 8,000 men and boys who were massacred there in July 1995. Before the genocide, Fazila lived in the town with her husband Hamed, her son Fejzo...

"I had a large family but out of that large family only me, two of my children, and my brother-in-law’s children survived,” she says. Before the genocide, Caritas worked as a farmer, and her modest income was enough to feed her immediate family.