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Category: <span>Gender & Women</span>

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March 14, 2025

WOMEN’S INTERDEPARTMENTAL COALITION OF HAITI PRESS RELEASE

Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this powerful statement from the Women’s Interdepartmental Coalition of Haiti. The statement, released to commemorate International Women’s Day, is a clarion call for solidarity, as…

August 21, 2023

Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country’s natural resources, with the fisheries taking some of the most felt battering. Amidst challenges brought by economic hardships,…

August 3, 2021

Defining Refugees in the Era of Climate Displacement

27 Jul 2021 – July 28th marks the 70th anniversary of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This historic document, signed by 149 nation-states, defines refugees as those with a well-founded fear of persecution…

June 7, 2021

Haiti Revolution, sparks for freedom

by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, the result of working many to death. Enslaved…

February 5, 2021

Haitians intensify struggle against president Jovenel Moïse

Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February 2022, which according to…

January 13, 2021

A letter to Ange Kagame from Carine Kanimba

By, Carine I. Kanimba Dear Ange, I hope that this letter finds you well. My name is Carine Kanimba, I am the daughter of Paul Rusesabagina. I would like to wish you…

April 15, 2020

Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’

The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next. 3 Apr 2020 – Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a…

March 26, 2020

Too Fast to Be a Woman

When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she…

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