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My work at Women for Women International exposes me every day to painful stories of women survivors of war experiencing sexual violence – and powerful analysis of what we must do to prevent it and heal. So I didn’t plan to spend my holiday break doing a deep dive into even more.

As we work towards the elimination of gender-based violence during these 16 Days of Activism, we cannot forget to care for those who have already experienced it. Helping women heal from trauma is one of the most important steps to building safer communities for women.

Welcome to the Women for Women International Book Club! This month, we’re reading Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, a powerful, courageous memoir by activist and advocate Tarana Burke.

After years of silent suffering, the women of South Sudan are beginning to speak out. About really difficult topics. In public.

This week, continued violence prevented the world’s youngest country from celebrating its independence day for the third year in a row. Even as leaders attempt to secure peace and stability in South Sudan, its residents and refugees continue to experience the devastating effects of the civil war.

War has taken a lot from Solange. Her husband and three of her children were all killed by rebels, and she was raped four times by armed men in her home village in the DRC.

WfWI’s partner, Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF), based at the Khanke IDP camp in the Duhok Province in Northern Iraq, caters to the needs of 640 Yezidi women, most of whom are former ISIS hostages.

Welcome to the Women for Women International Book Club! This month we’re reading Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller. Writer, artist, and activist Chanel Miller shook the world when her victim impact statement regarding Brock Turner’s sentencing for her sexual assault went viral. In her...

Welcome to the Women for Women International Book Club! This month we’re reading Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women, by award-winning journalist, war correspondent, and activist, Christina Lamb.

Isolation is deadly – research shows that not only does it increase the risk of depression and mental health problems, but it is as damaging to our physical health as smoking.

Earlier this week, Women for Women International’s CEO Laurie Adams sat down with Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario and NBC’s “Nightly News” and “Dateline” Anchor Lester Holt for a conversation on the realities women face in conflict-affected countries. Moderating the...

According to the United Nations, 137 women and girls are murdered on average a day by their partner or someone very close to them. Ending violence against women means that the international community must prioritize ending femicides across the world.

Conflict and displacement are deeply intertwined, disrupting the lives of millions worldwide.

I don’t know about you, but I find it very difficult to read the news these days. The conflict in Syria has been raging for more than four years.

Zainab Gbobaniyi is a lawyer and advocacy trainer with Women for Women International.

At Women for Women International we use a lot of field based vocabulary that often has a much deeper meaning and greater implications than a simple definition. In this series, we will be addressing some of these terms in the hopes of giving YOU the tools you need to have conversations about women’s...

The situation in Sudan, my home country, is rapidly deteriorating. I have witnessed the devastating impacts of conflict on once-thriving communities, who are now caught in a cycle of hunger, sexual violence, disease, and death.

It has been over a year since the conflict formally ended in South Sudan, but violence against women in remains a pervasive problem. The cease-fire has brought new risks to women and girls; many men joined one of the fighting groups during the war, and now they have returned to their families - but...