Violence Against Women
Afghan women’s shelter will shut down without your help
I am writing to you from Kabul, where the Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA) has been running an emergency women’s…
Jane Fonda introduces the work of the Galkayo Center
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Article: El Salvador’s female victims of violence rarely see justice. That’s about to change.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador— Iliana Aguillón describes her ex-boyfriend as calm and easygoing, the opposite of her abusive, alcoholic father. When she broke up with her ex after discovering his affair, she never imagined he would turn violent.
Abortion in El Salvador
By Vilma Vaquerano, Communications Coordinator of Ormusa (translated and adapted from the original Spanish) In El Salvador, every day at least five women are…
Escaping Nightmares
Escaping Nightmares Waseema was 12, out gathering branches and goat-droppings for fuel when the men came and took her. She remembered only that it felt…
Deadly attack in Galkayo, Somalia, but Center’s work continues
Hawa Aden, Executive Director of the Galkyo Education Center and a Donor Direct Action partner, reports from the front lines.
Recent increase of violent crimes against women in Afghanistan
“Very dangerous types of violence against women have increased in Afghanistan: mostly rapes, killings, kidnaps, acid attacks, cutting of body parts and stoning,” according to Najia Karimi, Executive Director of Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA), a partner organization of Donor Direct Action.
Actions speak louder than words on FGM
Those of us in the campaign against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) are glad that this issue is now on the agenda of policy makers in Somalia, according to Hawa Aden Mohamed, Director of the Galkayo Education Center for Peace and Development in Somalia. The Center is a partner of Donor Direct Action.
Afghanistan partner facilitates meeting between Afghan women partners and the head of UN Women
Najia Karimi (left), Executive Director of the Donor Direct Action partner organization Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA), with Phumzile Mlambo…
Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, talks about peace and a feminist foreign policy
“The empowerment of women and girls is a true example of smart politics,” said Margot Wallström, Sweden’s Foreign Minister. “Gender equality is not only about women’s rights but is a matter of ensuring peace and security for all,” she said, explaining that this is the starting point, the platform on which her country’s feminist foreign policy is based.
WOMAN with Gloria Steinem investigates violence against women in El Salvador
A new episode of the Viceland TV series “WOMAN” with Gloria Steinem takes an unflinching look at femicide – the deliberate murder of women just because they are women – in El Salvador, the country with the highest murder rate in the world. It features ORMUSA: the Organization of Salvadoran Women and new partner of Donor Direct Action.
Salvadoran women join Donor Direct Action
ORMUSA – the Organization of Salvadoran Women – becomes the 14th front-line women’s rights activist organization and the first from Latin America to partner with Donor Direct Action.