Leduvina Guill Zamora
When a little girl was sold to traffickers for $2,000; when a seven-year-old girl was raped by her stepfather; and when a woman was burned…
Magdalena Kafiar
The hardest thing about challenging civil rights violations in Papua is proving they exist. The Indonesian government has thrown a cloak of silence over past…
Forces United for Our Disappeared in Coahuila and Mexico
Soon after then-president Felipe Calderon declared the war on drugs in Mexico in late 2006, human rights organizations began noticing an alarming trend. Alongside the…
Marta Alicia Alanis
Marta Alanis has been an activist for abortion rights since 1991, when she started Catholics for Choice in her city, Cordoba, Argentina. Though she is…
Melania Chiponda
“I was born across the road from the diamond fields.” Melania Chiponda has personally experienced what mining does to African women’s lives. She remembers a…
Miriam Miranda
For decades, Miriam Miranda has worked to reclaim community and defend the land and cultural rights of the indigenous Garifuna people of the Atlantic Coast…
Tin Tin Nyo
Tin Tin Nyo grew up in an activist household; her parents were involved in the All Burma Student Democratic Front, a group that has been…
Less Different: Fighting Islamophobia one funny drawing at a time
Humor and art can be powerful instruments to shatter stereotypes and end discrimination. In her illustrations, artist Soufeina Hamed is doing just that. She translates…