Press and Publications

The answer to extremist violence and authoritarianism lies in feminist organizing.

Afro-descendant women advocates in Colombia and their international have released the results of a Community Hearing held earlier this year in Tumaco, titled "Development and Racism: Realities and Impacts of Violence Against Black/Afro-descendant Women within Our Diverse Identities." 

We're partnering with networks of grassroots women's groups on the frontlines of these crises. We’re able to get support where it's needed most and in ways that prioritize the women and families most at risk.

Your support makes it possible for MADRE to fund a wide range of efforts that protect the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community. 

Together with the Colombian organization Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), and supported by Oxfam, Outright Action International, and Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, MADRE sent a letter to the UN Security Council and UN human rights experts encouraging them to hold the Colombian Government accountable

MADRE was honored to receive InterAction’s 2021 Disability Inclusion Award for our focus on “organizational commitment, best practice, outstanding contribution, and innovation.

We lift up our voices for peace and justice, and demand an end to the violence.

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MADRE condemns racist policing and the systemic oppression that Black people in the US have faced for generations and pledges to continue our work confronting this injustice worldwide.

There is no feminist foreign policy that can co-exist with our patriarchal, militarized status quo. If we truly succeed in placing feminist values at the heart of US foreign policy, what grows from that will be unlike anything we’ve seen before. A more peaceful and just future depends on it.

The Iraqi Parliament passed the Yazidi Female Survivors Law on March 1, 2021, legally recognizing ISIS crimes against Iraq’s Yazidi community as genocide and mandating reparations for Yazidi women survivors.

The assessment offers recommendations for how MADRE and our Iraqi partners can contribute to and support current efforts, fill documentation gaps, and utilize a gender lens to the threats and violence faced by the priority communities.