Press and Publications

Great news! Thanks to you, we’re about to open a brand new art therapy and counseling center in el Choco, a poor community in the north of Colombia. Your vital support will help even more people!

In April 2016, over a dozen Iraqi women’s organizations came together in Erbil, Iraq for a convening entitledStrategies for Change. As the facilitators of this workshop, MADRE and partners sent the recommendations generated from this convening to the UN Security Council, to inform their upcoming expert group review of women, peace and security concerns in Iraq.

MADRE’s Strategies for Change Conference series provides an open and safe forum for Iraqi and Syrian women working in conflict, humanitarian disaster, and confronting violence and extremism. 

As advocates on behalf of women’s and gender rights worldwide, we want to express our deep concern about the recent escalation in Egypt of government attacks on dozens of civil society organizations that work for human rights and particularly women’s rights.

When an Iraqi woman is threatened with deadly violence in her home, where can she turn to for information and help? For many, the answer was Al Mousawaat (Equality) radio, the human rights radio station run by MADRE’s partner group, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. 

Young women and girls who have escaped sexual slavery by ISIS have found safe haven and security, thanks to you. That’s because your support helped MADRE and our partners at the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) open the doors to a brand new shelter and rape crisis center in Dohuk, Kurdistan—the only one of its kind in the region. 

It’s planting season on Nicaragua’s North Atlantic Coast! Thanks to your help, soon we’ll be Harvesting Hope.

Activists worldwide are condemning the assassination of Honduran environmental organizer and rights activist Berta Cáceres. Learn more about Berta's courageous activism, and our global demand to end impunity and violence against women human rights defenders.

Together — you, MADRE and our sisters worldwide — we create moments that bend the arc of our reality towards justice for all women and girls.

This call to action has been initiated by the Women's Refugee Commission. Take action, and ask your senators to maintain current funding for life-saving humanitarian assistance programs. These efforts have been historically underfunded at less than 1 percent of the...

Those organising Syria’s peace talks must go beyond merely ticking the gender representation box. It's essential to move towards real inclusion of women peace advocates and larger civil society.

What we’ve written, read, listened to, remembered, watched and been inspired by this month.