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Sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org!

As we told you on Friday in this news, we sent a special Newsletter this weekend about Noura Hussein‘s story and we also shared the petition: Don’t execute Noura for self defense against the man who raped her! on Change.org. This petition will help spread the word about...

Noura Hussein sentenced to death by hanging: Support #JusticeforNoura!

Last week we published a news (read here) about the 19-year-old Noura Hussein Hamad who was found guilty of attempted murder after suffering marital rape. We were hoping she wouldn’t be sentenced to death but yesterday the Central Criminal Court of Omdurman in Sudan sentenced the...

Marital rape victim Noura Hussein faces execution in Sudan

Yesterday we tweeted about Noura Hussein, a 19-year-old Sudanese woman who was found guilty of attempted murder after suffering marital rape. She was forced into the marriage by her own family at just 16 and the Central Criminal Court of Omdurman in Sudan, on 29 April, found her guilty of...

Rape survivors protest against increasing violence in Congo (DRC)

Hundreds of rape survivors protested against increasing violence this week, following latest mass rapes in Congo. This is the news we can read on the Denis Mukwege Foundation website. More than 800 Congolese survivors of wartime sexual violence gathered in Bukavu, urging the Congolese...

International Women’s Day 2018: ‘Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives’

Today is International Women’s Day, it started on February 28, 1909 in  New York, and it’s celebrated in many countries around the world. This special day is a global day celebrating women’s rights and womanhood, and the social, economic, cultural and political...

‘It would be a better world if women felt safe in public spaces’ – By Salma Belhassine, activist from Tunisia

Last week UN Women published a story in the ‘From where I stand…‘ editorial series about Salma Belhassine, a 21-year-old activist from Tunisia, part of the Youth Leadership Programme, an initiative by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in partnership with UN...

‘Outraged by the Attacks on Yazidis? It Is Time to Help’ – By Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist from Iraq, survivor of genocide and human trafficking. She is also Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking of the United Nations (UNODC), and author of ‘The Last Girl‘. Murad is one of the 5000 Yazidi...

Kavumu: Child Rapes and Murders Declared Crimes Against Humanity in Landmark Case

The first retweet of 2018 we made is a tweet from our founder Max Dana in which she mentioned the events in Congo: As a new year starts, I'm very concerned by the dire situation of so many people, here and abroad. Current events in #Iran and #DRC are preoccupying. Hard to wish an...

Soudan du Sud : les femmes manifestent pour la paix et contre les violences

Depuis l’indépendance du Soudan du Sud en 2011, le pays a connu de nombreux conflits, des famines et des déplacements de population. Résultat d’une guerre civile sanglante entre partisans du président Salva Kiir et ceux du vice-président Riek Machar. Et au coeur de ces...

The Art of Resilience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – By Darcy Ataman

This week we celebrate Human Rights Week on The MagkaSama Project and it’s the occasion to highlight the work and events by organizations, foundations and partners we support for a long time. We already mentioned ONU Femmes France and Ornage Day, and also Lighting the Way for Human...