Press and Publications

In previous years, MADRE worked closely with our partners to bring their voices to these important climate policymaking spaces. This year, we continued our commitment to ensure an opportunity for Indigenous women leaders to share their voices, leadership and expertise.

MADRE is making emergency grants to grassroots organizations in Syria and across the region that are mobilizing urgently to meet people’s needs.

This exchange is one of many to bring women leaders from all over the world together in one space to learn from each other, strategize and build collective power.

For the past 15 months, Tulia Maris Valencia and Sara Quiñonez — mother and daughter, and Afro-Colombian human rights defenders — were unjustly detained in a maximum-security prison, in retaliation for raising their voice on behalf of their community.https://www.madre.org/press-publications/your-support-action/action-alert-free-sara-and-tulia

With your help, MADRE has achieved a historic victory – an important step in the ability of international law to protect all victims of atrocities.

When we honor Earth Day, it’s about much more than the ground beneath your feet. It’s the food that nourishes us, the water that sustains us, the air that flows through us. It’s about the deep and intricate connections between all beings, and our responsibility to live in balance with each other and the Earth.

MADRE has given seed grants to budding organizations in the Philippines, Uganda, and Tanzania to support Indigenous and women's rights. Read on to see what your support has made possible.

Our partners at the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) are offering new courses! Their programs already give women shelter, care and the chance to reinvent their lives, including through job training. Now, OWFI has added first aid, literacy, and sewing and handicrafts classes! Nearly 60 women have attended these classes so far - 49 of whom had never before taken a class with OWFI. 

Last month, Charo Mina-Rojas addressed the UN Security Council on the topic of children born of rape.

In Kenya, MADRE partners with Indigenous women leaders who organize to build healthier and more resilient communities. Together, we combat the dangers of climate change by creating sustainable farming initiatives and protecting water sources. We advocate for the rights of women and girls to be educated, to be safe from violence and to step up as leaders. We're excited to share these two videos, to give you a glimpse at that work.

MADRE staff visited our partners in Guatemala earlier this year, traveling from community to community to meet with grassroots women organizers. We saw so clearly the impact that supporters like you make possible and wanted to share a few stories and snapshots with you.