Press and Publications

Thanks to your support of Harvesting Hope, MADRE and our local partners organize regular farmers markets for the women farmers to sell their crops.

When women come together, powerful changes can happen. Here’s an inspiring example of how. It’s the story of Hellen and Sylvia, two Indigenous women in Kenya, and the transformative friendship they’ve forged, with your help.

Meet Paulina, an Indigenous woman farmer from the rural town of Chepareria in West Pokot, Kenya.

After nine months of bloody fighting, Iraqi military forces have seized back control of Mosul from ISIS. But for the many women and families devastated by three years of ISIS occupation, by months of brutal battles, and by US-led airstrikes that killed over 1,000 people – the fight to survive continues.

 

Grassroots activists were facing state violence. We took action.

Today, Trump announced that he would impose new restrictions on Cuba, setting the clock backwards on recent years of progress in US-Cuba relations.

MADRE is delighted to announce that Kavita N. Ramdas is joining the organization as our new Strategy Advisor. 

Trump has announced his decision to endanger countless lives worldwide by withdrawing the US from the Paris climate change deal.

Huddled around solar-powered radios, generations of Miskito women in Nicaragua tune in almost daily to the first and only radio station dedicated to women's rights in their native language. Airing from dawn till dusk six days a week along the country's impoverished north Atlantic Coast, the radio station is being hailed by U.N. Women and campaigners as a key way to reach remote indigenous communities plagued by violence against women and girls.

When our partners Lucy Mulenkei from Kenya and Rose Cunningham from Nicaragua were in New York for an annual UN meeting on Indigenous Peoples’ rights, we gave you the chance to reach out to them with your questions.