PeaceWomen Across the Globe

Jeanne Gacoreke, based in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura, is originally a teacher by profession. She was one of the first people to publicly denounce rape by rebel groups and Burundia...

«It didn’t happen, most commanders say, when confronted with sexual violence during the civil war», says Susan Risal. She is a peace practitioner based in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the...

Mandy Carter’s work in the United States connects a range of issues: opposition to war and violence, support for social and economic justice for people of color, and equal rights f...

“We can’t do things without love,” says Sevim Arbana, an activist who has long been at the forefront of the democratic movement in Albania. She is the founder of the NGO Useful to ...

As a child, she escaped during the night in a boat when the rebel soldiers came to her village. Years later, Yasmin Busan-Lao played a central role in the peace negotiations in the...

She fled her home country Afghanistan after her husband was disappeared, and lived as a refugee in Pakistan. Yet Sima Samar, a medical doctor by training, never lost her faith in p...

She grew up in one of the most affected areas in the Colombian civil war that took the lives of more than 200,000 people, including two of her uncles. Her experiences of conflict l...

Her work as a parliamentarian took her to refugee camps in conflict-affected regions. There Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold met women who had experienced sexualised violence and who were ...