Silence is complicity: A call for international solidarity with Syria 
News Update: April 17 “If you were besieged under a sky of hell, what would you want the world to do?” - a woman in Ghouta, from the Syrian ...
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Syria attack: A critical moment for global action, six years too late
More than 100 people, including women and children, are believed to have been killed and hundreds more injured in a chemical attack in Syria on ...
Prestigious award recognizes bold Egyptian woman human rights defender Mozn Hassan and Nazra for Feminist Studies
Update: November 29, 2016 Last week, Egyptian woman human rights defender and Global Fund for Women Board member Mozn Hassan accepted the 2016 Right ...
A message of solidarity to our sisters in Turkey
Global Fund for Women stands in solidarity with our sisters and partners in Turkey following Friday’s attempted coup and the ensuing violence that ...
In solidarity with Egyptian woman human rights defender and Global Fund for Women board member Mozn Hassan after travel ban
We, the Board of Directors of Global Fund for Women, express global solidarity with our sister and fellow Board member Mozn Hassan. Mozn’s bold ...
Daring women in the Middle East and North Africa are leading the charge for progress
By Zahra Vieneuve, Global Fund for Women Program Officer for Middle East and North Africa News from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has ...
In Conversation: Yanar Mohammed on trafficking in Iraq
Yanar Mohammed is the President of Organization of Women’s Freedom, our grantee partner in Iraq. The group focuses on protecting women’s human ...
In Egypt, defending human rights could land you in jail
UPDATE: December 8 Azza Soliman, a bold Egyptian woman human rights defender and the founder of the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance, ...
Political empowerment for women in the Middle East
Political revolutions and instability in the Middle East have mobilized women in new ways. In the face of political unrest and explicit threats to ...
Taking back justice with grassroots women in Egypt
Over the past 20 years, the Center of Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA) has worked with thousands of grassroots women in Egypt and throughout ...
