Today it was announced that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 has been awarded to two individuals for their respective efforts "to end the use of sexual violence a...
By UN WOMEN - Rayanne Cristine Maximo Franca is an indigenous youth activist from Brazil. Since leaving her home at 17, she has embarked on a relentless pursuit...
By Aisha Azimi for Free Women Writers - When she came out and demanded justice for facing incest and other forms of physical and sexualized abuse at the hands o...
12-year-old Leah from Florida is the daughter of undocumented immigrant parents. This is a speech she gave at a "Families Belong Together" rally in Washington, ...
By UN Women - Sandra Moran is Guatemala’s first openly lesbian member of the Congress. She organized the country’s first lesbian group in 1995, and was elected ...
Award-winning writer and actor Anna Deavere Smith, who you may know as Nancy McNally on The West Wing and Gloria Akalitus on Nurse Jackie, has created Notes Fro...
We continue to be inspired by the bravery, strength and resilience shown by the student survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, ...
While the Grammy’s hashtag #GrammysSoMale continues to trend, women topped the winners list at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Among the women directors and...
Continuing our support of the UN Women's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, we meet Nongnee Kondii, who is standing up and speaking out...
