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Abigail Kajumba

Uganda, Raising Voices

"I identify myself as an African, and as a black woman, which has its own challenges and its own blessings..."

Ruth Namembezi

Uganda, Ask Without Shame

"In Uganda, sexual education is not included in the academic curriculum, so very few schools offer it..."

Magdalena Linke-Koszec

(Poland, Her Impact)

"Other initiatives and ideas advocated by the members of the government and the party ruling in Poland have affected women's professional careers too..."

Deqo Mohamed

(Somalia, Hagarla Institute)

"How can we change our society if a young woman who goes to college cannot see another woman teaching?"

Daniela Jager and

Ms. Lena Diesner

(Austria, Womens Referendum 2.0)

"It is even worse for women of color and immigrants... No immigrant woman, no ethnic minority woman is hired to work at high level of the administration of a big company..."

Rugile Butkeviciute

(Lithuania, Women’s Issues Information Centre)

"Just recently I met a victim. She told me she wanted to file for divorce. I asked her, why now? You've been suffering this situation for almost fifteen years...."

Marina Meskhi

(Georgia, Anti Violence

Network of Georgia)

"Years ago, I couldn’t imagine having a female president in Georgia in my life, however, the president and the chief justice are now female..."

Amara Montoya and

Ms. Irene de la Vega García

(Spain, Romi Serseni)

"Romani women do face more discrimination. It is just that combination of being women and Romani, part of a cultural/ethnic minority..."

Tatjana Latinovic

(Iceland, Icelandic Women’s

Rights Association)

“The fight for women's rights is not against men. It's against patriarchal structures that negatively impact everyone in society. So, there can be a role for men in this fight..."

Ana Tikvic

(Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nisam tražila Initiative)

“Balkan countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro are countries in transition. .."

Annemarie Heiniger

(Switzerland, l’Association Suisse pour les droits des femmes)

"The fundamental problem is the power imbalance between men and women. The fear of male violence, sexual violence and even feminicide..."

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(Switzerland, l’Association Suisse pour les droits des femmes)

“This is one of the most relevant challenges the World Health Organization is facing, the enormous gap between wealthy and poor countries..."

Elena Maquieiara Palmer

(Colombia, Fondo Lunaria)

"Machismo is everywhere here in Colombia, it is very embedded. Sometimes, I have to question myself about certain cultural issues that we accept and suddenly we realized that they are part of this machismo..."

Myriam Narcisse

(Haiti, Haiti Adolescent Girls Network)

“That’s a question that strikes home because from my experience, violence is something we have to dig deeper into our society in order to address..."

Francisa Awa Mbuli

(Cameroon, Survivors' Network)

"I appeared in the national media and I brought the attention of the Minister of Women Empowerment, and she was just like, come to my office and tell me your story..."

Eleuteria Amora da Silva

(Brazil, CAMTRA)

"When I went to Berlin, I saw an ad about shaving, like the Brazilian waxing, which is very famous in the United States too..."

Janice Abbott

(Canada, Atira Women's Organization)

"I think we’re still struggling to figure out the education piece and this has to do with a right-wing element in our population that doesn’t want their children learning about gender and relationships in school..."

Cecilia Ananias Soto

(Chile, Amaranta)

"They expect women to be in charge of their houses, of their kids and their jobs at the same time: they have to do everything, they have to be super-women or something like that."

Ekaterina Dimitrova

(Bulgaria, Bulgaria

Euro-Atlantic Club)

"Years ago, the EU published a report confirming that girls are interested in acquiring digital skills, in programming coding, even in engineering..."

Drishti Pillai

(United States, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum)

"At the same time having a single professor that sort of looks like you, is so powerful, especially if that's not common. I have had one woman of color professor in my entire academic career..."

Shomy Hasan Chowdhury

(Bangladesh, Awareness 360)

“You'll be surprised to know that in the majority of the advertisements for sanitary napkins, the blood drop is usually shown in blue or purple color."

Sveto M. Ishoq

(Afghanistan, Ayat & Chadari)

"It doesn't matter the country they come from. There is always this kind of negativity. They always identify me with Afghanistan, where they believe there is no room for peace."

Irina Ilisei

(Romania, Plural Association)

"I would like to share the experience Romania had during the Communist regime, when there was no, or very little access to contraception."

Milena Kadieva

(Bulgaria, Gender Alternatives Foundation)

"I would start from this basic quote from Simone de Beauvoir who says, feminism is the radical idea that women are people."

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Olfat Mahmoud

(Palestine, Palestinien Women's Humanitarian Organization)

"When I was a child, we did not have books not even libraries around. You know, we lived in a refugee camp where we only had our tents. No services, no resources at all."

Nupur Agarwal

(India, Evolve Foundation)

"So it is so important to move out of your comfort zone, move out of your shell, learn new languages, meet new people, discover new challenges and new possibilities..."

Abrar Omeish

(United States, School Board Member-at-Large at Fairfax County Public Schools)

"For far too long, historically, the law has been manipulated, designed so that certain types of people may flourish while others are left out..."

Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi

(Nigeria, Stand to

End Rape Initiative)

"In Nigeria, there is a cultural belief that a girl must be a virgin to be considered pure, worthy, and innocent in the eyes of God..."

Sulata Dhakal

(Nepal, Smart Cheli)

"However, there are concerns for the future generation as the country becomes more modernized..."

Thobekile Matimbe

(Zimbabwe, Emthonjeni Women’s Forum)

"However, there are concerns for the future generation as the country becomes more modernized..."

Dr. Tashi Zangmo

(Bhutan, Bhutan Nuns Foundation)

"However, there are concerns for the future generation as the country becomes more modernized..."

Rasha Wazneh

(Lebanon, The Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering- RDFL)

"Advocating for women's rights in Lebanon presents several key challenges. One of these is the legal framework. Although Lebanon has ratified various international conventions..."

Naomi Tulay-Solanke

(Liberia, Community Health Care Initiative)

"However, there are concerns for the future generation as the country becomes more modernized..."

Hafsah Muheed

(Sri Lanka, Amplifying Impact)

Interestingly, many gender issues in our society are attributed to the aftermath of colonization...

Kirthi Jayakumar

(India. The Gender Security Project)

Furthermore, a major barrier to achieving our future goals regarding women's rights is the tendency to homogenize women as a single group...

Swati Bhattacharjee

(South Asia, South Asian Women

in Media)

Political parties are strongholds of patriarchy that often fail to nominate women and uplift their voices...

Nada Peratović

(Croatia, Brave Sisters)

The woman is not just an incubator; she is a person with her own experiences, life, and dreams...

Carmelita Nuqui

(The Philippines, DAWN)

DAWN was established in response to the growing number of cases of women being trafficked to Japan in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, continuing into the twenty-first century...

Sophie Hansal

(Austria, Network of Austrian Counseling Centers for Women

and Girls)

Often, we overlook the courage and strength required to escape a violent relationship...

Annick Teeuwen

(The Netherlands, SharePower)

When a woman is hired, some may perceive it as positive discrimination, implying she was hired because she is a woman...

Marie-Anne Delahaut

(Belgium, Millennia2025)

When a woman is hired, some may perceive it as positive discrimination, implying she was hired because she is a woman...

Melanie Lynch

(Ireland, Herstory)

I believe that the media and popular culture have a significant role in this issue, especially in how they often romanticize violence and war, be it towards women, the environment, or other cultures...