Women’s Rights

Across the world, women human rights defenders continue to speak up against human rights violations and to call for justice, peace, and gender equality – despite facing immense challenges. Meet Peace,...

Across the world, women human rights defenders continue to call for justice, peace, and gender equality – despite facing immense challenges. Still, or maybe because of that, they continue to figh...

Across the world, women human rights defenders continue to call for justice, peace, and gender equality – despite facing immense challenges. Still, or maybe because of that, they continue to figh...

Across the world, women human rights defenders continue to call for justice, peace, and gender equality – despite facing immense challenges. Still, or maybe because of that, they continue to figh...

Human rights defender Malú García Andrade from Mexico is awarded the Per Anger Prize 2023 for her efforts to support the families of disappeared and murdered daughters. She demands that murders of wom...

Across the world, women human rights defenders continue to speak up against human rights violations and to call for justice, peace, and gender equality – despite facing immense challenges. Meet Mahlet...

Being a human rights defender is in many parts of the world a dangerous job. Being a woman human rights defender can often be even more dangerous. Faith Namansa was tired of seeing so many women leavi...

We are happy to present our first-ever feminist pocketbook: “Building Feminist Practice – a Pocketbook for Human Rights Defenders”. The pocketbook is a result of years of collaboration with partner or...

In recent months, we have seen how mass protests against powerful oppressors have taken place in several countries. In Russia, hundreds of thousands marched in over 100 localities calling for an end t...

Marking the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day (29 November) we’re releasing an episode of The Human Rights Defender podcast speaking about WHRDs and the increasingly precarious role they ...