Donor Direct Action’s New Website Launch

Donor Direct Action’s New Website Launch

Donor Direct Action's New Website Launch Dear friend, Today is Human Rights Day, and I want to invite you to celebrate it with me by exploring the new website of Donor Direct Action and learning more about this visionary organization that is working around the...
Donor Direct Action’s Official Launch

Donor Direct Action’s Official Launch

Donor Direct Action’s official launch, featuring Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Lynn Nottage and Robin Morgan, took place on March 9th at the Ford Foundation in New York City, hosted by director Jessica Neuwirth, DDA’s steering committee members, and artists Kate Whoriskey and Daniel...
Dr. Denis Mukwege wins Nobel Peace Prize

Dr. Denis Mukwege wins Nobel Peace Prize

I am so delighted to share the news with you that Dr. Denis Mukwege, Medical Director of Panzi Hospital in the Congo, has won the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor/activist from Iraq.  Both of these newly awarded Nobel...

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Help ORMUSA end femicide in El Salvador

Jul 3, 2018
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In February this year Graciela Eugenia Ramírez Chávez died after she was stabbed 56 times by the man she was going to marry. She is not alone.…

A South African trans woman’s tempestuous journey through sex trafficking to survival

Jul 3, 2018
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My mother died in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, when I was just 12 years old. I was the youngest of three boys. I was devastated.…

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Nepalese women who miscarry must not be treated as criminals

Jun 21, 2018
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Nepalese women who miscarry must not be treated as criminals Meera, a young woman from eastern Nepal is currently serving a seven year sentence for…

The Queen’s endorsement of the exploitation of women is devastating

Jun 20, 2018
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Earlier this month, Her Majesty the Queen gave official honours to two people who have done more than most to hide the egregious violence experienced…

Why I resigned from the South African “Sex Work” Movement

Jun 12, 2018
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Like many women in South Africa with first-hand experience of the sex trade, when I initially joined the Sisonke Movement of Sex Workers I was…

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Forced Pregnancies

Jun 12, 2018
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Peru has one of the highest rates of reported rape in Latin America. An estimated 62% of these affect women between the ages of 10…

Donor Direct Action’s 2017 Annual Report

May 22, 2018

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3 million girls are at risk of FGM

May 2, 2018
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During a recent medical examination 21 year old Sia found out that she had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) as a young girl. Her genitalia…

Kidnapped as Schoolgirls by Boko Haram: Here They Are Now

Apr 12, 2018
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WRAPA’s Saudatu Mahdi in The New York Times. Read the article Support WRAPA Read more about WRAPA

Efua Dorkenoo Fund to End FGM

Apr 12, 2018
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  Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a severe form of violence against girls and women which includes partial or total removal of the external female…

Rachel Moran appears on Ireland’s The Late Late Show

Apr 11, 2018
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Rachel Moran was coerced into sex work in her early teens. She campaigned strongly for a new law, brought in last year, to criminalise the buying of sex. She tells Ryan why she believes a failure to fully enforce this new law is making the sex trade more dangerous.

Sold into marriage in Afghanistan

Apr 4, 2018
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We recently received this note from Krishma and wanted to share it with you: At age 18 I was sold into marriage to an older…