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Girls’ Rights
Gender Justice Issues What Are Girls’ Human Rights? Girls’ human Rights are articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention of the Rights of the Child and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Being both young and female, these international treaties are relevant to girls and lists their…
Join us in Morocco – April 2020!
TRIP POSTPONED: Due to the current threat of coronavirus (COVID-19), we have regretfully decided to postpone this journey to a later date. Please check back for updated information in the coming weeks. LOCAL LEADERS, GLOBAL CONNECTIONS In a global climate where women’s basic human rights are under attack in similar ways across countries and continents—including…
The Women’s Revolution in Sudan: We stand in solidarity with feminist activists fighting for their freedom
Military forces have violently cracked down on civilian protesters in Sudan over the past year, killing more than 100 people and injuring over 500 in a recent weekend in June alone. Protesters have been bloodied, burned, gang-raped, and killed, some disfigured and thrown into the Nile. The numbers of dead and injured may be far…
5 Women Human Rights Defenders on Their Work
Women human rights defenders around the world work tirelessly to challenge violence against women, advance sexual and reproductive health and rights, and create economic justice for women. While women doing this work face the same threats as other human rights defenders, including surveillance, false charges, and violence, they also face threats due to their gender. Women human…
Tell Sessions: Survivors of domestic violence deserve shelter in the U.S.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions just overturned longstanding policies protecting domestic violence survivors who are seeking refuge and asylum in the U.S. While the news cycle may have moved on from this inhumane policy, we cannot move on while it continues to affect women every day. Make no mistake: this change of policy will have fatal…
Deadly chaos in Nicaragua: Condemning government violence and repression
Global Fund for Women stands in solidarity with women in Nicaragua who are demanding an end to government repression and violence toward protesters and a peaceful and democratic solution to the current political crisis. In mid-April several protesters were killed in clashes with pro-government groups, and security forces and many more were injured while protesting…
Voices of joy & resilience from the bold women’s movement in Mexico
By Eva Kolodner, Global Fund for Women “We were founded because we saw women doing amazing things, but we were not seeing these stories in the media. We believe in the power of storytelling. We also believe in a world in which women can live a life of JOY.” These words—spoken by Lourdes Barrera,…
Measuring a year in global resistance and interconnected movements
What a year it has been. On January 20, 2017, the new U.S. administration took office with President Trump’s Inauguration marking the official transition of power. And on the following day, millions of people from various backgrounds came together for Women’s Marches not just in Washington, D.C., but in cities across the United States, and…
Top 10 moments for women's rights in 2017
2017 has been quite a year. It was a year of resisting, of reckoning. It was a year of rollbacks and new challenges for women and girls in countless countries, from Egypt to the United States and Brazil. And it was a year of resilience and resistance on full display. As we look back on the past year,…
Unstoppable
× Share Facebook Twitter Copy Link It’s no secret: girls are an unstoppable force for social change. Global Fund for Women believes in the power of girls to change their own lives, to write their own stories, and to create their own futures. We know that girls and young women are incredible changemakers with potential…
