Rebuilding Peace in Sri Lanka with Nalini Ratnarajah
Nalini Ratnarajah is a human rights activist and a feminist, who has dedicated decades of her life, advocating for gender equality,...
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Sania Haider, Pakistan
- Jun 8, 2018
Young Hazara Woman Leads Hunger Strike for Justice
In Quetta, Pakistan, young Hazara women are exhibiting unprecedented strength and resilience in the face of violent extremism. Jalila...
Christina Ibanez
- May 22, 2018
Women Human Rights Defenders at RightsCon 2018
Last week, WRN attended its first digital human rights conference - RightsCon. Over 2000 techies, coders, hackers-for-good, human rights...
Nooria Sultani, Core Member WRN-Afghanistan
- May 10, 2018
Nimalka Fernando on Women’s Struggle for Rights in Post-War Sri Lanka
Nimalka 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 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...
Zunera Rais, Pakistan Country Coordinator
- Apr 12, 2018
Approaching Peace Through Informed Dialogue: Interview with Farhat Asif
A Kashmir-born Pakistani woman, Ms. Farhat Asif is the founder of Institute of Peace and Diplomatic Studies, a leading research...
Dr. Noreen Nasser
- Mar 14, 2018
Women in Pakhtun Long March: Building Peace and Challenging Stereotypes
A 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 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...
Fatema Kohistani, Afghanistan Country Coordinator
- Feb 28, 2018
Notes from the Field: Community Conversations in Takhar Province
Community Conversations in Kochcha IDP Camp, Takhar province, Afghanistan. In January 2018, WRN conducted field research in Takhar...
Padmini Ghosh, WRN India Country Coordinator
- Jan 24, 2018
Approaching Gender in a Conflict Zone: Interview with Yasir Abbas
Hakim Yasir Abbas is a passionate law professor from Kashmir. As a critic of orthodox teaching methodologies, which he believes have...