WMC Women Under Siege
March 28, 2014 | Madeline Earp | International, Science and tech
Mind the digital gender gap: Empowering women online
Women face a variety of barriers to full and equal access, including cost, lack of digital literacy, lack of awareness of the Internet’s potential, and entrenched cultural and gender norms that limit them from forming independent connections outside their home or community. These obstacles are worth overcoming.
WMC Women Under Siege
March 25, 2014 | Shazdeh Omari | International, Media, Violence against women
#SiegePhoto winner: Holding the keys as a reminder of home
We put out a call on social media last month asking you to send us your photos of women in war. In an email by Joanne Mariner, a senior crisis response adviser for Amnesty International, we found a stunning image. Mariner managed to capture the uncertainty of what it means to live in war in this photograph of the hands of a woman holding the keys to her home—now forever a part of her past—in the Central African Republic.
WMC Women Under Siege
March 12, 2014 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Media, Violence against women
#CongoWomenSpeak: Photos from the ground in DRC

The war in Congo is like a snake. Sometimes it slithers by and you see it and feel terror; other times, it hides in the trees, waiting. Everywhere I traveled in the country with the Nobel Women’s Initiative in February, I felt that ever-present fear—and exhaustion from so many years of being either attacked or on the lookout.

WMC Women Under Siege
March 06, 2014 | Lauren Wolfe | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Portraits of three women in Congo: Their lives, their rapes, their recovery

There were so very many stories. Stories of women physically torn apart, leaving stains of urine on chairs from fistula they suffered from violent rape. Stories about sexual enslavement that left teenage girls hysterically crying and unable to finish speaking. Stories of erasure—of women who had been left by their husbands and shunned by their own children because men had raped them.

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