Press and Publications

On September 9, the world lost a powerful advocate for human rights: Sunila Abeysekera.

Thanks to your generous support, MADRE was recently able to send funds to MUIXIL in support of their programming with local, Indigenous Ixil women. The donation went towards maintaining the chicken farming project, organizing a human rights training, and holding...

We couldn’t be more excited or grateful that two wonderful supporters had MADRE and our sisters worldwide in mind on their special day!

This past month, our sister organization CHIRAPAQ released Nuestras Voces al Infinito, a short film exploring the lives of two Indigenous women who are making a difference in their communities as radio broadcasters for Voice for Justice. Le�nidas is a...

OWFI has been hard at work maintaining the safe houses and providing a secure environment for the women who seek refuge from violent or stressful situations. The medical, counseling and legal services offered at the safe houses have been beneficial...

As violence against LGBTI people surged in Haiti, MADRE worked closely with our partners to track these human rights violations and advance a strategy to confront them. We’re glad to see that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a regional human rights body, seized the moment to put out this statement. 

I love hosting the bees, sheltering the endangered. And it is a risk, since I am allergic to bees. I do worry at night whether I might step on their hive and I am trying to find it. Okay, so this is living dangerously. But only a little bit. Nature carries dangers. Life does.  That’s life.

By now you may have read my email from earlier this week about the brutal violence impacting young girls in Haiti – the most vulnerable of the country's earthquake survivors. But with your support, MADRE and our Haitian sister organization...

Fatima Ahmed, director of MADRE's sister organization Zenab for Women in Development, recently shared some success stories from the Women Farmers Union. Together with Zenab, MADRE supports 3, 000 women farmers, giving them the tools, resources and technical assistance they...

We recently received an email from Stella Duque, director of our sister organization Taller de Vida. She shared some exciting updates from her programs with former child soldiers and children at high risk of being recruited in Colombia's armed conflict.Taller...

Watch our partners Rose Cunningham and Liduvina Gill of Wangki Tangni and Mirna Cunningham of CADPI discuss living well, women’s political participation, violence against women, and intercultural exchange in this video produced in partnership with UNDP. 

Watch our partner Otilia Lux de Coti speak out at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues about Guatemala’s prosecution of Efraín Ríos Montt, the former dictator who carried out a brutal genocide against Indigenous Peoples (you can find out more here and see a collection of resources here). Below is her statement in Spanish and a complete translation.