Author: Suzane Maria

Director of Programmes The Director of Programmes will work closely with the Executive Director (ED) to manage current programmes, and lead the programme team to new programme development and strategy,

Amina was born in Morocco. She was young, beautiful and forced to marry her own rapist. For many of us, these words conjure up a seemingly unlikely situation one may run

A Look at the Figures As many of us settle in for another round of seasonal celebrations, dashing about to fill our bags and pad our bellies with food and

International Women’s Initiative News Writer Uuuihoreye Donatira was only 18 years old when the gruesome civil war in Congo broke out in 1997. She narrowly escaped death in a war

From the beginning of 2016 until now I have overheard conversations between strangers, as well as participated in talks with friends and family all over the world about their disbelief

International Women’s Initiative News Writer When my boyfriend walked out on me just a few days short of my 35th birthday, my heart slumped and my head span. Any reader

International Women’s Initiative News Writer On 30 November 2016, Colombia’s congress approved a revised peace deal between the government and Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) – the nation’s largest

International Women’s Initiative News Writer In February 2017, Russia’s president Vladamir Putin signed a new law that has effectively decriminalised certain acts of domestic violence against women and children. Dubbed

On 8 March 2017, 338 young Canadian women between the ages of 18 to 23 filled every seat in the parliament for an event called “Daughters of the Vote”. This

Ever since the advertising industry made its boom with the historic peak in consumer consumption of the early 1950s, women have been overtly portrayed in unrealistic, humiliating, misogynistic, objectifying, demeaning,