Violence Against Women
Your help to girls like 10 year old Sahar is invaluable!
I want you to know how much your generosity means. Sahar was only 10 when she was forced to marry an older man in Afghanistan.…
Afghan women’s shelter needs your help to stay open
I wrote to you in March about the emergency women’s shelter that the Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA) has been running…
Breaking the silence in the world capital of female genital mutilation
Last year, I met 15 year-old Istar, who had been married off to a 70 year-old man in Eastern Somalia. He paid 10 camels and…
Help protect Nepali women from acid attacks
Help protect Nepali women from acid attacks Sangita Magar’s mother feeds her during her hospital stay following her attack. Sangita Magar and her friend were…
Jane Fonda introduces the work of ORMUSA
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Help us protect girls from female genital mutilation
Ifrah was only seven when she underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) close to her home in Puntland, Somalia. Now 25, she has vowed that none of her four daughters will undergo it. FGM…
The most dangerous country in the world to be female?
We wrote to you in March aboutthe shelter I run for girls and women in Afghanistan, which will close down if we don’t find new…
Afghan women’s shelter will shut down without your help
I am writing to you from Kabul, where the Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan (HAWCA) has been running an emergency women’s…
Jane Fonda introduces the work of the Galkayo Center
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Article: El Salvador’s female victims of violence rarely see justice. That’s about to change.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador— Iliana Aguillón describes her ex-boyfriend as calm and easygoing, the opposite of her abusive, alcoholic father. When she broke up with her ex after discovering his affair, she never imagined he would turn violent.
Abortion in El Salvador
By Vilma Vaquerano, Communications Coordinator of Ormusa (translated and adapted from the original Spanish) In El Salvador, every day at least five women are…
Escaping Nightmares
Escaping Nightmares Waseema was 12, out gathering branches and goat-droppings for fuel when the men came and took her. She remembered only that it felt…