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Today, Trump reinstated the Global Gag Rule by executive order, and with the stroke of a pen, attacked the reproductive rights of women across the world.

As we start 2017, we’re gearing up to confront the many challenges we know we will face, in the US and around the world.

With just days left before the new year, and only weeks left before Trump’s inauguration, many of us are thinking about what we can do, right now, to shore up our movements, strengthen progressive organizations and defend our values.

Eunice is a young community health worker in Kenya. Her work with the Indigenous Information Network, MADRE's partner organization, brings her to communities to talk with women and families about their needs.

With your help, MADRE joins together with courageous activists around the world. I know a better world is possible because, with you and our grassroots partners, we’re building it.

Many in the US are emerging from their initial shock at the outcome of the presidential election to confront its likely impacts: a legitimation of right-wing identity politics, worsening climate change and militarism, assaults on women’s rights and LGBT rights, and the gutting of basic public services. 

 The past weeks have been filled with so much fear and bad news. But we are not buffeted by these changing winds, because our eyes are looking to what comes next and our feet are firmly planted — thanks to you.

We met Melissa and Matilda, pictured here, when MADRE visited with Wangki Tangni, our Nicaraguan partner organization, last month. 

The battle for Mosul has started, after months of warnings, and it’s predicted to displace over a million people. Humanitarian catastrophes like this don’t always come with advance notice, allowing policymakers and aid workers time to ramp up their operations. So it’s especially galling that Iraq’s government has tied the hands of their most valuable crisis responders: local women’s organizations.

Help women experiencing disasters.  Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful storm to hit the country in close to a decade, left a trail of destruction. But your generosity helped to ensure that we were ready to respond to this disaster immediately and effectively with lifesaving aid. 

In telling Colombians that voting "yes" in the referendum was a vote for peace is something deceiving because it did not take into account the great distrust they have for both their government and the FARC alike. I would have voted "yes" if I could, because I understand that it is a vote in favor of another vision for the country and for victims who are now generations who have grown up with war. Because to vote "yes" means that peace - both individual and collective – is worth more than revenge and hatred.