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What Can I Do About Genocide? An Interview with Janessa Goldbeck

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JG: I had the opportunity to spend some time in Rwanda when I was in college, and what really struck me about that experience was the willingness and openness of the survivors, who are both victims and perpetrators, to heal their country and to move on. It was being sponsored by the Genocide Intervention Network. Why didn't the U.S.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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The show ended, and I immediately signed up to be a Women for Women International sponsor. They sat side by side to discuss the role of women in rebuilding society, women's rights and the new Constitution, and family law. Women for Women is a nonprofit that pairs women survivors of war with women sponsors all over the world.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

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We have seen that in other places as well such like in Rwanda, and in the Middle East and numerous other places. The year before that, women in Morocco won an amazing change in the law. Until then, women had been considered minors under the law. It hasn't happened in Latin America's history.

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