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Friday Focus: 5 years on, Yezidi women enslaved and raped by ISIS face an unbearable dilemma
Five years ago, in August 2014, ISIS fighters launched a genocidal attack on the Yezidi religious minority in Sinjar, northern Iraq.
Women and girls were raped, enslaved and forced to endure unspeakable atrocities. They saw their husbands and sons tortured and killed. Survivors fled to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, setting up makeshift homes in displaced persons camps. Half a decade later, the majority are still there.
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Meeting Amela, my first sponsored sister, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Last month, I had the opportunity to meet face to face with Amela, my first ever sponsored ‘sister’. Ten years ago, I sponsored Amela to take part in Women for Women International’s year-long training programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Right now, there are hundreds of women waiting to enrol in our programme in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. You can help by sponsoring a woman today.
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Ladies, raise your glasses! Next week marks 100 years since a landmark law gave women in the UK the right to vote — and we have a lot to celebrate. Since that historic ruling, life has improved drastically for women in this country.
But fast forward to 2018, and opportunities are still limited for women and girls around the world, all because of sexist laws that belong in the 1900s. Like the suffragettes before them, inspiring young women like Sonita Alizadeh and Nujood Aliare fighting to end misogynistic practices like child marriage — and today, they need your help.
Ladies, turn the clock forward 100 years — take action to end child marriage for a better future for women and girls.
Meet Samira, whose story is both tragic and inspiring. In Bangladesh, where Samira is from, over half of girls marry before the age of 18 — and they are often submitted to horrific violence from their husbands.
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Add some sunshine to your day with this inspiring story of Women for Women International - Nigeria graduates who won an award for selling solar lamps and encouraging clean energy use in their communities.
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Last week I asked what sisterhood means to you. The incredible Dame Helen Mirren, our Patron, said:
“Sisterhood in the larger sense is helping other women, as far as one is able to. Sisterhood is the sense of community, with women you don’t know but with whom you share an enormous bond.”
The bond of sisterhood can bring about powerful change - together we have the power to create the change we want to see in the world.
Our new short film, starring Dame Helen Mirren, celebrates this inspiring power of sisterhood.
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