Women

Diary of An Afghan Woman

"How did they have the courage and strength to run from the bombs, through the cities and the snipers and the rebels and Assad’s army and ISIS to this hopeless barren potato field?"

"I still have more dreams..."

"I am midwife, with women for a lifetime..."

I Fear for my Daughter's Life and My Own

I want them to dream, to know that we can do it too.

To think of the danger it was to leave my country, to come here, is less than to know that my daughter could have died that day.

Here I can make my own life

In America, people follow their dreams

So the man started flogging me. See the scars? All over my body!

I had no rights, no freedom to choose my path.

I pray most of all for my children who are still in Afghanistan and Iran.

"He left me with two babies and went to Libya ... I wemt to Libya, but I didn't find him."

"I only want to be treated like a human being. I just want to be free and to live in peace and safety..."

Whilst safe from the Myanmar military in the camps, Rohingya women remain at risk due to gender-based and sexual violence, discrimination, human trafficking and health problems

If you have a child, you will understand how I feel.

In the constitution, on paper, women have equal rights with men, but in reality, they have no rights there.

Amina is one of countless indomitable refugee mothers in the world

Women of the World