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Mouna Ghanem interviewed on Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan
Robin Morgan speaks with Mouna Ghanem about the efforts of the Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace to include women’s voices in the peace-building and democratic processes.
Support Women Building Peace in Syria
As civil war rages in Syria, the Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace is working for a peaceful political transition to democracy and building a broad-based coalition of Syrian women across the political spectrum.
Syrian Women Call for Peace
As mothers, as lovers of peace, and as Syrian women who want an end to war, we sign with tears in our eyes in order to stop this horrific violence against innocent people within Syria.
Learning to Read
Afeeza is 24, with large, exquisite eyes like dark pools reflecting light. Yet she keeps her gaze cast down and covers her face with her veil.
Human Rights Defender
Human Rights Defender Throughout the DRC, ravaged by over two decades of war, the work is difficult and dangerous. In certain areas the female human…
Garnering global support for a gang rape victim in Nepal
Garnering global support for a gang rape victim in Nepal In 2011, Donor Direct Action issued our very first urgent appeal to help a Nepali…
Like a Heaven
Like a Heaven Occupational therapy at Panzi Hospital Every part hurts–feet, trudging weeks from her village now stinking of corpses, burnt huts, and surviving kinfolk…
Transforming Outrage into Action – Hawa’s Story
Transforming Outrage into Action – Hawa’s Story The little girl’s father believed boys and girls should be educated, and he opposed female genital mutilation (FGM).…
International Outcry Inspires Legal Action
On June 24, 2011, a 21-year-old Buddhist nun traveling to visit family in far eastern Nepal had to spend the night on a bus halted by flooding. The driver and four other men from the bus company gang-raped her until she lost consciousness.