Press and Publications

I’d like you to meet Asma, a young Yazidi woman in Iraq. For two years, her life was a nightmare that few of us can even imagine. She was captured into ISIS sexual slavery, kidnapped from her village in northern Iraq and torn away from the only life she’d known.

But her story doesn’t end there. 

Wars have been fought, walls built and separation policies enacted. But we share a common belief that peace is possible. We refuse to be enemies.

Today, Trump released his budget proposal, one that eviscerates funding for vital social services at home and abroad while bloating defense spending. I’ve talked to you about his cruelty budget before, and how it will impact our work with women worldwide. With you standing with us, MADRE and our grassroots partners are fighting back.

At the People's Climate March on April 29, we raised our voices, together with Indigenous partners defending communities and demanding climate justice worldwide, and with 300,000+ people dedicated to protect our futures. Our work together continues!

Afro-Colombian leaders from organizations comprising the Consejo Nacional de Paz Afrocolombiano (CONPA) warn that rights and survival of Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples are threatened by fast track formulation of the legal framework to implement Colombia’s Peace Accords. The leaders, meeting in Bogotá this week, also call for full compliance with the Ethnic Chapter of the Peace Accords and for meaningful participation of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous women in the implementation process. 

The Trump administration is a threat to the rights of LGBTIQ persons in the US and around the world. Here are some early indications.

Thanks to you, Indigenous women farmers of the Harvesting Hope project have the seeds, tools and training they need to raise food for their families — and that's not all. MADRE and our local partners, Wangki Tangni, also run a women’s rights radio station. 

The Trump administration has launched repeated attacks on women’s health, in the US and around the world. Roe v. Wade and reproductive health services in the US are under threat. At the same time, essential US funding for women’s health programs worldwide have been cruelly cut. 

The Trump administration has declared war on environmental protections and launched efforts to roll back effective climate policy, both nationally and globally.

Indigenous women climate defenders from around the globe are taking a stand for climate justice and women’s rights at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) this week in New York. 

It’s impossible to tell the story of MADRE without Mirna. In many ways, Mirna made MADRE possible.

Where we work on the remote, north coast of Nicaragua, women face high rates of abuse. But in their isolated and impoverished communities, these women often lack access to vital information on lifesaving support services. With your support, our human rights radio station is changing that.