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Afro-descendant women advocates in Colombia and their international have released the results of a Community Hearing held earlier this year in Tumaco, titled "Development and Racism: Realities and Impacts of Violence Against Black/Afro-descendant Women within Our Diverse Identities." 

There's a real danger of armed violence during this election, coming on the heels of a season of police killings and emboldened militia actions.

Visualizamos una política exterior estadounidense radicalmente reorientada que aborde las causas profundas de la guerra y el militarismo, que generan violencia en el país y en el extranjero.

A coalition of human rights organizations, led by MADRE, Outright Action International and CUNY Law School, have announced a historic victory for the power of international law to extend protection to all victims of atrocities. Their campaign to ensure international legal protections for the rights of women and LGBTIQ people has won a crucial endorsement from the International Law Commission (ILC), the body charged with drafting a new treaty on prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.

Today, the international women’s rights organization MADRE announced the launch of its Feminist Foreign Policy Jumpstart, an initiative to bring global women’s voices and solutions to progressive policymaking in the US.

Proceso de Comunidades Negras en Colombia (PCN), an Afro-descendant rights organization, has received the Tomorrow’s Peacebuilders award – one of only three organizations worldwide to be granted the honor.

Women often bear the brunt of climate change's impact. In Guatemala, they also have become some of the country's most visible environmental activists.

A delegation of Indigenous women climate defenders from Cameroon, Guatemala, Kenya, Nepal and Nicaragua will speak out from in front of Eloy detention center in Florence, AZ to demand human rights for Indigenous Peoples and for others impacted by border militarization.

Afro-descendant women’s organizations in Colombia will mark International Women’s Day by highlighting Black women’s role in peacebuilding and calling for reparations for conflict-related gender-based violence and other human rights violations. As members of communities that have long suffered governmental neglect, Afro-Colombian women and girls have faced disproportionate rates of conflict-related human rights violations with minimal access to justice or services. 

A year after President Trump was sworn into office and millions gathered in protest, resistance has yielded some important victories. Here, leaders of the Women's March and its official partners weigh in on why it's more important than ever to keep up the momentum of activism.

Three organizations announced a petition on Wednesday asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring charges against ISIS for persecuting the people under its control on the basis of gender — including the public execution of men alleged to be gay. The petition is being submitted to the ICC by the New York-based women’s rights group Madre, the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), and City University of New York School of Law. It will be formally presented Wednesday afternoon at an event with ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.