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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Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace petition to support building a democratic Syrian state

Sep 4, 2013
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Learning to Read

Aug 27, 2013
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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.

The economic reintegration of women beneficiaries at Maison Bulengo

Human Rights Defender

Aug 21, 2013
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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…

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Garnering global support for a gang rape victim in Nepal

Aug 21, 2013
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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…

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Like a Heaven

Aug 21, 2013
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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…

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Transforming Outrage into Action – Hawa’s Story

Aug 21, 2013
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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

Aug 21, 2013
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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.

Practical Magic

Aug 21, 2013
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Helena is only fifteen, but she knows. Knows what happened to Oksana, her older sister who answered an advertisement for a glamorous “model” job–then vanished into the trafficking network that imports and exports women and girls for sexual slavery.

Gone to Work in Mumbai

Aug 21, 2013
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Ruchira Gupta stumbled on the subject while walking the hills of Nepal in 1994. “Many villages had no women between age 15 and 45,” she recalls. “I started inquiring. The answer was always the same: ‘They have gone to work in Mumbai.’”

Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan joins Donor Direct Action as partner grantee

Aug 17, 2013
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ONE WAITING ROOM, MANY LIVES

Aug 16, 2013
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ONE WAITING ROOM, MANY LIVES Aisha, age 50, a mother and grandmother, was divorced by her rich husband because he wanted a younger wife. The…

Honor Malala Yousafzai by Supporting Girls Rights in Pakistan

Aug 15, 2013

On October 9th, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban for her efforts to promote girls education in Pakistan. She is 14 years old, and now fighting for her life.