As terrorist attacks escalate, Afghan women are again the canaries in the coal mine. Is anyone listening?
“How many times am I supposed to yell and scream and say, ‘World, pay attention to us—we are dying’?”
Author: Jessica Neuwirth
Jessica Neuwirth is a lawyer and international women's rights activist. She is one of the founders of Equality Now, an international women's rights organizations established in 1992, and the founder and director of Donor Direct Action, a project hosted by the Sisterhood Is Global Institute to support women's organizations around the world. She is the founder and president emerita of the ERA Coalition and Fund for Women's Equality.
Ukrainian Women on the Front Lines
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, war crimes fill the news, political dialogue seems hopeless and 7 million refugees—at least 90 percent of whom are women and children—have fled across the borders into Europe.
Still, resistance blossoms in Ukraine from a generation that’s enjoyed relative freedom and democracy. The way forward in Ukraine—and elsewhere—is through people power.