https://www.girlsglobe.org Gender equality, human rights and social justice. Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:13:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.girlsglobe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/girlsglobe_icon_green2-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.girlsglobe.org 32 32 128553070 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2025/02/18/for-the-dignity-of-all-supporting-usaid/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2025/02/18/for-the-dignity-of-all-supporting-usaid/#respond Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:13:08 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=66354 The image is still vivid: girls, between eleven and fourteen years old, sitting in a circle, waiting. Not for treats, but for notebooks and pens. These girls had been in school, but their families could no longer afford the basic supplies. These materials came from a box stamped with the words, “from the American people.” […]]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2025/02/18/for-the-dignity-of-all-supporting-usaid/feed/ 0 66354 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2021/06/08/how-to-support-survivors-of-sexual-violence/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2021/06/08/how-to-support-survivors-of-sexual-violence/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:19:02 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=60845&preview=true&preview_id=60845 In December 2019, I was chatting with Tori Amos. I mentioned that I just returned from three years working with girls in the Middle East. Most of these girls were from Syria, where rape is used to terrorize in the ongoing civil war. The sexual violence is so pervasive that many girls left their education […]]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2021/06/08/how-to-support-survivors-of-sexual-violence/feed/ 3 60845 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2020/10/30/vote-him-out-an-urgent-call-in-the-wake-of-u-s-presidential-election/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2020/10/30/vote-him-out-an-urgent-call-in-the-wake-of-u-s-presidential-election/#respond Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:57:51 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=58358 “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy.” – Donald Trump These dehumanizing words spoken by the man holding one of the […]]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2020/10/30/vote-him-out-an-urgent-call-in-the-wake-of-u-s-presidential-election/feed/ 0 58358 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/11/28/turning-the-tide-on-sexual-violence/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/11/28/turning-the-tide-on-sexual-violence/#respond Thu, 28 Nov 2019 10:07:35 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=51090 Behind the statistics are women and girls - individuals who could be you or me. As I move forward in the fight for the health, rights and dignity of all of us, I collect more and more memories of my time with survivors. The more memories I gather, the more often they crawl out from the corners of my mind when I’m least expecting them. ]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/11/28/turning-the-tide-on-sexual-violence/feed/ 0 51090 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/08/02/when-nadia-murad-stood-before-trump/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/08/02/when-nadia-murad-stood-before-trump/#respond Fri, 02 Aug 2019 09:00:31 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=49522 It is the most hardened hearts and minds - not the hearts and minds of our allies - that we must change if we are to create a more just and inclusive world. ]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/08/02/when-nadia-murad-stood-before-trump/feed/ 0 49522 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/06/17/speaking-unspeakable-advance-human-rights/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/06/17/speaking-unspeakable-advance-human-rights/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:13:27 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=48965 I don’t want to tell the story. How can I describe this girl's physical and psychological torture?]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/06/17/speaking-unspeakable-advance-human-rights/feed/ 0 48965 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/14/standing-syrian-women-girls/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/14/standing-syrian-women-girls/#respond Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:51:11 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=46718 Women and girls in Syria, like women and girls in all conflicts, suffer disproportionately. Meanwhile, the world largely ignores them. ]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/14/standing-syrian-women-girls/feed/ 0 46718 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/04/nadia-murads-call-to-stand-with-survivors/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/04/nadia-murads-call-to-stand-with-survivors/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:17:05 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=46355 I have just finished reading reviews of ‘On Her Shoulders’, Alexandria Brombach’s documentary on Nadia Murad, the human rights activist who won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. From the New York Times to RobertEbert.Com, the almost exclusively male reviewers gave halfhearted write-ups on a movie so powerful that I felt anxiety in my chest while […]]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2019/03/04/nadia-murads-call-to-stand-with-survivors/feed/ 0 46355 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2018/12/26/facing-2019-with-bravery/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2018/12/26/facing-2019-with-bravery/#respond Wed, 26 Dec 2018 10:00:19 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=44805 I spent the first half of 2018 in the Middle East. Originally working to prevent and respond to child marriage among Syrian refugees, I spent most of my two and half years in the region creating empowerment programs to help girls respond to sexism and inequality. Inevitably, this work always circled back to confronting sexual […]]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2018/12/26/facing-2019-with-bravery/feed/ 0 44805 https://www.girlsglobe.org/2018/06/26/where-are-the-girls/ https://www.girlsglobe.org/2018/06/26/where-are-the-girls/#respond Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:28:15 +0000 https://www.girlsglobe.org/?p=43056 Here we have a population of girls taken from their parents and placed in a system that criminalizes their existence...]]> https://www.girlsglobe.org/2018/06/26/where-are-the-girls/feed/ 0 43056