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Uncomfortable Truths, Unconventional Wisdoms – WASL Security Brief

Women’s perspectives on violent extremism and security interventions

“We Will Survive: Women’s Rights and Civic Activism in Yemen’s Endless War.” Yemen (Winter 2016)

Images of women’s mass participation surprised Western observers and revealed the vibrant force of Yemeni women as influential, yet previously unrecognized, change agents.

Morocco’s Dilemma: Rights and Reform or Closure and Conservatism? (March 2015)

Morocco’s Dilemma: Rights and Reform or Closure and Conservatism? (March 2015) Morocco embodies numerous contradictions and challenges for the national and international human rights community. Since the Moroccan Spring in 2011, women’s rights and civil society...

Resisting the New Conservatism: Women’s campaigns for rights, peace and participation in Turkey. (Winter 2015)

Resisting the New Conservatism: Women’s campaigns for rights, peace and participation in Turkey. (Winter 2015) For nearly a century, Turkey has been a model of a modern secular Islamic nation. As a member of the G-20 and NATO, a candidate for the European Union, and...

The World at a Crossroads: Women Have the Solutions

PRESS RELEASE November 11, 2014 We, sixty women representing thirteen countries spanning the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, together with our colleagues from Europe and North America, gathered together in Turkey at the Third Annual Forum on Women’s Rights, Peace...