News & Stories
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.
Practical Magic
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
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.’”
ONE WAITING ROOM, MANY LIVES
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
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.