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Swarna Rajagopalan, WRN Core Member
- May 7, 2018
Coming Together: Early Days of WRN
Founding meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2011. In August 2011, Patricia Cooper sent me an email asking if she could chat with me about a w...

Swarna Rajagopalan, WRN Core Member
- Mar 7, 2018
Women, Peace and Security Index
For several years, we have been using “the most dangerous places for women” to describe India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, despite the fact...
Fareeha Sultan, Pakistan Country Coordinator
- Nov 20, 2017
Smiling in the Face of Odds: Interview with Mariam Khan
Mariam Khan is the Program Director of Community Appraisal and Motivation Programme (CAMP). She has over 15 years of experience in the de...
Mangla Sharma, WRN Core Member, Pakistan
- Oct 26, 2017
Reflections in the Mirror
They say that a mirror never tells a lie. That stands true for the mirror as well that shows us the realities of women’s empowerment, gen...

Swarna Rajagopalan, WRN Founding Member
- Mar 2, 2017
Life (in 250 words)
How it started does not matter. Everything is different now. A spark, a simmer, a stranger’s torch—everything burns anyway. The first i...
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