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Today, over 40 organizations will stage bold actions in 12 countries to promote human rights as part of “One Day, One Struggle,” [...]

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I traveled to my home country, Brazil, during the recent Presidential elections in which, for the first time in history, two women [...]

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Petitions by Change.org|Start a Petition » In recent months, IWHC has co-hosted two advocacy trainings in San Francisco and Washington, DC around [...]

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More than a third of all women in the world will be forced into sex, beaten or abused by a partner or [...]

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Today, the United States announced its intention to make an unprecedented three-year pledge of support to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, [...]

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You’ll remember that back in July, the United Nations voted unanimously to create a new office on women, the United Nations Entity [...]

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We recently posted about the compelling and disturbing image featured in Time magazine of a young Afghan woman whose in-laws sliced her [...]

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Having your heart in the right place when it comes to protecting and promoting women’s health and safety is important—but without your [...]

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“I feel empowered creating a safe space for young people, just to be treated with dignity and without much labeling about your [...]

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Making female condoms accessible, available and affordable for all women and men—that’s what the Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) Joint Programme [...]

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