Press and Publications

This is our moment to reaffirm that targeting women and LGBTIQ, non-binary, and gender non-conforming persons in peacetime and conflict can amount to a crime against humanity. 

 A diverse array of human rights organizations have come together to establish an alliance to collectively monitor the dire human rights situation in Afghanistan and advocate for the protection of human rights and accountability for all violations and abuses.

MADRE is making emergency grants to frontline women leaders in Ukraine to ensure directly impacted communities have access to food, medicine, and other essential goods and services.

Women are key actors in efforts to avert conflict and build just societies, and their meaningful participation is linked to recognition of their basic human rights, including the right to be free from gender-based violence.

Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll see in our grantmaking

In late October 2021, MADRE hosted a powerful virtual conversation on the critical work we're doing to support our partners in Haiti and Afghanistan amid the ongoing crises in both countries.

The military coup in Sudan is a terrible setback to the powerful work for democracy that women have led. We spoke to one of our partners in Sudan, about what’s happening now and what it means. 

In a letter to United Nations (UN) agencies and member states, Feminist Action for Afghanistan, a global coalition of Afghan and international women’s and feminist organizations condemns a growing pattern of exclusion of Afghan women from key mechanisms to address Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis.

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.