By Oksana Horbunova The situation is very unpredictable and it’s really difficult to describe what we are feeling. It seems that waiting for the war is harder than the war itself. What I am observing is that the streets of the capital have become empty. There are not many people…

We recently caught up with Leadership Incubator Fellow Judith Martinez, founder and CEO of InHerShoes, a women-of-color-led, social impact-driven organization that’s catalyzing courage for girls and women around the world. Since 2014, InHerShoes has mobilized thousands of millennial women and their allies to make the world a better place through…

On International Anti-Corruption Day, we spoke with VVEngage fellow Carolina Lizárraga, who served as a Superior Anticorruption Judge in Peru’s Superior Court of Lima and in the II and VI Anticorruption Tribunals of the Court of Lima. Carolina is an experienced lawyer and judge who also served as a member…

We know that old ways of thinking and doing won’t solve today’s problems — let alone tomorrow’s. It’s not hard to see, in the face of multiple, interconnected crises, that business as usual is no longer a smart option. And yet, too many of us still struggle to take those…

In honor of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, we spoke with Doria Jukić, a social worker at Duga Zagreb, a safe house for women and children facing domestic violence. Doria is a fellow with VV Peace, an Intergenerational Fellowship on Women, Peace and Security South Central…

The news that comes out of Afghanistan is difficult to hear. We know that women are systematically targeted: judges, television station employees, journalists. But then, these particular assassinations happened in January, March and June. The Taliban took over in August. My point is that Afghan women were already high-risk. Which…

In honor of this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, we sat down with R. Evon Idahosa, founder and Executive Director of Pathfinders Justice Initiative, Inc., a ground-breaking social justice initiative that seeks to eradicate sex trafficking and the sexual exploitation of women and girls in Nigeria. Evon…

What will it actually take to end the global epidemic of violence against women? Is it even possible? The frustrating answer, for human rights activists like myself, is yes: it is absolutely possible. …

It’s the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, so we spoke to Gentiana Pustina, a journalist, VV Peace Fellow and former Chairwoman of the Kosovo Journalists Association, an NGO affiliated to the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) that aims to ensure freedom of expression by defending Kosovarian…