WMC Women Under Siege
October 25, 2016 | Shaista Aziz | International, Violence against women
Hungry and isolated, women who survived Boko Haram face new nightmare

Yagna Ibrahim is a woman who has a presence that is difficult to ignore. She strides into the room with grace and confidence, pulls out a chair, and sits down next to her friend and fellow women’s rights activist, Rabia Musa.

WMC Women Under Siege
October 17, 2016 | Lauren Wolfe | International, Violence against women
She survived ISIS, smugglers, and dolphins, but now faces her biggest challenge

The air is stuffy by default. Soap, especially laundry soap, is usually a rare commodity among refugees. Add to the muddle of unwashed smells a buzzing from black flies, nearly 100 degree heat, and dark, polyester clothes that cover from head to toe, and life inside a makeshift container on the Greek island of Samos is an unpleasant one, thick with defeat.

WMC Women Under Siege
October 04, 2016 | Sherizaan Minwalla | International, Violence against women
Yazidi women and girls resist ISIS in creative ways
On September 16, Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi survivor of ISIS captivity, was appointed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as the Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. It was the first time the UN had bestowed the title on such a survivor.
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