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Women for Women International continues the16 Days of Activism with documentaries to educate our supporters and followers about the plight of systemic violence that many women around the world are constantly faced with.

Women for Women International unequivocally condemns the use of rape as a weapon of war and all forms of violence against women, no matter what side of any conflict.

*Trigger warning: deals with sexual violence* *Mila is not her real name* In March this year, Mila was raped repeatedly by a young soldier after Russian forces took control of her village. He’d been drinking heavily and was part of a group that shot her friend’s husband in front of her. Mila...

I’m Hanna Nussair, a current Master of Human Rights student at the University of Minnesota concentrating in the rights of women and girls. My graduate research focuses on gender empowerment, educational equity, and eliminating violence against women. While working on my masters, I am a consultant...

Women’s lived experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo expose what sexual violence in conflict truly looks like, and what we must do to end it.

After two years of war in Ukraine, Anna Orel is exhausted. It’s impossible to get used to the relentless barrage of rockets, or nightly drone attacks in the capital Kyiv which make it hard to sleep. For Anna, surviving in wartime means living in the now. “Nobody knows how many days you will be alive...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, it can feel harder to connect with others and the wider world. Thankfully, there are several enlightening films that both educate and entertain, especially as the daily struggles of women living in conflict-torn nations continue during this global emergency...

Globally, the UNHCR estimates that 35.3 million refugees are displaced by war, conflict, and persecution.

In the early hours of February 24, 2022, a televised announcement by Russian President Vladmir Putin would ignite a “ special military operation” in Ukraine. Citing his objectives of the country’s “demilitarization” and “denazification”, his words signaled the siege of key Ukrainian cities by...

Women for Women International is dedicated to improving the lives of millions of the most marginalized women who have been affected by international conflict and war.

July 11 marks the 28-year anniversary since the Srebrenica genocide, the ethnic cleansing in 1995 which claimed the lives of 8,372 Bosniak Muslim men and boys and saw 20,000 forcibly displaced. Today in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the site of the massacre as well as the Bosnian War, signs of war still...

Olga turns on the radio for the first time in twelve months. She hasn’t been able to listen to music since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. In Mariupol, Olga sang pop and folk music with her group, Melody, who made it onto Ukrainian X-Factor and her husband was the Head of Mariupol’s orchestra...

When women have no land of their own, they often have no economic security, and when they have no security, the door to gender-based violence can be easily flung wide open.

Buki Onyishi, Country Director of Women for Women International - Nigeria, speaks out on the pandemic that is plaguing her country: sexual violence

Raja is a courageous Iraqi woman and mother of five raising her children in a refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She has been internally-displaced and single-parenting since 2016. Before the war, Raja’s husband worked for the Iraqi army, but he was forced to leave his job when ISIS took...