Sexual Health and Rights: Story Collection
We support women, girls and LGBTQI+ people, as they organize to end discrimination, stop violence and live with dignity, safety and health.
Activists Up Close: Meet Pisey, who’s Leading the Movement for Marriage Equality in Cambodia
Ly Pisey grew up in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where LGBTQI+ people are alienated and pushed…
Activists Up Close: Meet Mercy, a Girls Boxing Coach and Mentor in Kenya
Mercy Musila Musikali grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, like so many girls in her community:…
The Fight for Safe Abortions in Kenya
In Kenya, seven women die every single day from complications related to unsafe abortions —…
“No One Else is Helping”: Women and LGBTQI+ Legal Aids are Fighting for Survivor Justice in Indonesia
“There’s a stigma in society that we’re a curse,” says 26-year-old Feronika, a transgender woman…
Coming Out Into a New Reality in India
I came out to my father in 1998, over the phone. He was in Bombay,…
The Revolution Must Include Boys: Young Men Learn to be Allies for Gender Equality in India
Watching girls and boys, men and women, striving together for gender equality in India gave…
New video from India on gender inequality and political power
By Margo Mullinax, PhD, and Elizabeth Daube The 2018 Commission on the Status of Women…
Our fight for women and girls
I’m so inspired by the images of hundreds of thousands of people—including supporters of AJWS—who…
HIV and AIDS is a Public Health and Human Rights Crisis
Today marks the first World AIDS Day under the Trump Administration. As Policy Advisor for…
Guatemalan youth take a stand in defense of sexual health and rights
LGBT Love and Loss in Cambodia
Rainbow Community Kampuchea (RoCK) brings LGBT people from throughout Cambodia together to reflect on their…
Julienne Lusenge
Raising a voice for women amid the horrors of war
Binta Diao
Giving girls control over their bodies and futures
Meant for Something More
Sonali’s parents forced her to marry at age 14, and her husband turned out to…
Meet Jeanette
Twenty-three-year-old Jeanette and her two children live in the North Kivu province of the Democratic…
Meet Grace
Grace is the mother of seven children. She lives in Democratic Republic of Congo, a…
Activists stand up to Haiti’s anti-LGBT extremists
Homophobic hatred sizzled in Haiti’s streets last summer. Religious leaders marched throughout the country to…
Youth make strides for reproductive health in Guatemala
In Guatemala, very few young people have access to quality reproductive health care and sexual…
Volunteer Network of Friends Forever Friends
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the Dominican Republic have long faced discrimination…
Tostan
Tostan—which means “breakthrough” in Wolof, the national language of Senegal—is among the highest-profile social change…
Women speak out against sexual assault in Kenya
KENYA—Grace Mbugua was riding in a matatu van when the attendant started to harass her.…
Meet Zeenat
Zeenat is 17 years old and has already been married and divorced three times. All…