Women's Regional NetworkJul 6, 2018Rebuilding Peace in Sri Lanka with Nalini RatnarajahNalini Ratnarajah is a human rights activist and a feminist, who has dedicated decades of her life, advocating for gender equality,...
Sania Haider, PakistanJun 8, 2018Young Hazara Woman Leads Hunger Strike for JusticeIn Quetta, Pakistan, young Hazara women are exhibiting unprecedented strength and resilience in the face of violent extremism. Jalila...
Christina IbanezMay 22, 2018Women Human Rights Defenders at RightsCon 2018Last week, WRN attended its first digital human rights conference - RightsCon. Over 2000 techies, coders, hackers-for-good, human rights...
Nooria Sultani, Core Member WRN-AfghanistanMay 10, 2018Nimalka Fernando on Women’s Struggle for Rights in Post-War Sri LankaNimalka Fernando is an attorney and eminent women’s rights activist from Sri Lanka. She is a Co-convener of Platform for Freedom and a...
Swarna Rajagopalan, WRN Core MemberMay 7, 2018Coming Together: Early Days of WRNFounding meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2011. In August 2011, Patricia Cooper sent me an email asking if she could chat with me about a...
Zunera Rais, Pakistan Country CoordinatorApr 12, 2018Approaching Peace Through Informed Dialogue: Interview with Farhat AsifA Kashmir-born Pakistani woman, Ms. Farhat Asif is the founder of Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies, a leading research...
Dr. Noreen NasserMar 14, 2018Women in Pakhtun Long March: Building Peace and Challenging StereotypesA group of young Mehsud men from FATA started a peaceful march towards the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad on 1st February 2018, which...
Swarna Rajagopalan, WRN Core MemberMar 7, 2018Women, Peace and Security IndexFor several years, we have been using “the most dangerous places for women” to describe India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, despite the fact...
Fatema Kohistani, Afghanistan Country CoordinatorFeb 28, 2018Notes from the Field: Community Conversations in Takhar ProvinceCommunity Conversations in Kochcha IDP Camp, Takhar province, Afghanistan. In January 2018, WRN conducted field research in Takhar...
Padmini Ghosh, WRN India Country CoordinatorJan 24, 2018Approaching Gender in a Conflict Zone: Interview with Yasir AbbasHakim Yasir Abbas is a passionate law professor from Kashmir. As a critic of orthodox teaching methodologies, which he believes have...