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Women Making An Impact

Women Making An Impact

Every day, tens of thousands of women—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe—are making the world safer. They mobilize. They march. They advocate. They risk their lives for a better future, often going unnoticed and unacknowledged. Nevertheless, they persist.

It’s time to celebrate these bold innovators for peace.

What One Rwandan Political Leader Learned from Listening to the Grassroots

How One Woman Walked Into the Forest and Helped Reconcile Her Country

She Risks Her Life to Report on Syria’s Civil War

She Organized a Sex Strike and Ended War in Liberia

This Pakistani Woman Uses Education to Fight Extremism

How Women Rebuilt Rwanda

10 Ways Syrian Women Risk It All For Peace

Deradicalizing Extremists With the Help of Their Mothers

16 Women Who Are Standing Up to Violence

How Liberian Women Battled Ebola

17 Women Who Are Changing the World

A More Inclusive Future for South Sudan

This Rwandan Woman’s Journey to Elected Office Began in the US

Her Son Went Missing in Action, So She Reached Out to the Enemy

How Women Transformed the Peace Talks in Northern Ireland

One Kenyan Woman Asks: Can Cellphones Stop Violence?

9 Women Forging a More Peaceful World

After Srebrenica Massacre, Bosnian Women Reclaim Peace

The Moment She Decided to Work for Peace

Uniting Muslim and Christian Women to End Killings in Nigeria

An Iraqi Woman Leading the Push for Democracy

She Fled War in South Sudan—Now She Fights for Peace

In Bosnia, Who Picked Up the Pieces?

The Power of Libya’s Female Arms Dealers

In Kenya, Only Women Saw the Fire Coming

10 Ways Syrian Women Are Building Peace and Democracy

Using the Quran to Deter Suicide Bombers in Pakistan

A Filipino Peace Icon, and Three Other Inspiring Women

Striving to ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ in Nigeria

Celebrating 20 Years of Progress—And The Women Who Made It Happen

Syrian Women Demand End to Siege of Zabadani

Four Courageous Women Who Are Making a Difference

Ten Kenyan Women You Need to Know

Celebrating Malala – and Women as Leaders for Peace

How do you justify leaving 50% of the population out of crucial issues?

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