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Standing in Solidarity and Getting Support to Women & Girls in Afghanistan

August 19, 2021 Action

If you wish to show #SolidaritywithAfghanWomen and to #StandwithAfghanWomen, consider getting direct support to them as well as signing on to various advocacy efforts pushing to ensure a swift passage to safety for them....

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New Report Out on a Peace-First Approach to Resolving the Korean Crisis

February 11, 2021 Reports

A February 2021 report released by Korea Peace Now! — a global coalition of women’s peace organizations — and co-written by Christine Ahn, co-founder of Channel grantee partner Women Cross DMZ (WCDMZ), explores how a peace-first approach can resolve the security crisis on the Korean Peninsula....

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WCDMZ’s Christine Ahn Announced Winner of 2020 US Peace Prize

October 28, 2020 Awards

The Board of Directors of the US Peace Memorial Foundation unanimously voted to award the 2020 US Peace Prize to Channel grantee partner Women Cross DMZ (WCDMZ) Co-Founder, Christine Ahn, for her “bold activism to end the Korean War, heal its wounds, and promote women’s roles in building peace.”...

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World Pulse Member Receives Prestigious Holman Prize

October 28, 2020 Awards

Tiffany Brar, a member and vocal contributor to Channel grantee partner World Pulse’s online digital community, received the prestigious Holman Prize in 2020.  Brar is the first Indian to receive the award....

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Cover of August 2020 Cypher Zine, depicting two hands against a brown background

Front Line Defenders Launches Monthly Digital Comic ‘Zine

August 20, 2020 Launches

In July 2020, Channel grantee partner Front Line Defenders (FLD) launched Cypher (@cypher_comics on Instagram), a digital comics magazine that advances the organization’s storytelling and narrative framing work in collaboration with and in support of human rights defenders (HRDs)....

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GFW Fundamental Documentary Series Available for Streaming

April 18, 2020 Launches

Channel’s longest term grantee partner, Global Fund for Women (GFW) and two-time academy award-winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy partnered to create Fundamental–-a documentary film series about feminist grassroots movements and community leaders across the world....

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Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War Campaign

April 8, 2019 Launches

On March 14th, 2019, Channel grantee partners Women Cross DMZ (WCDMZ) and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) officially launched the Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War campaign to end the war on the Korean Peninsula....

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FIMI’s Joan Carling Receives Champions of the Earth Award

October 9, 2018 Awards

On September 26, 2018, Joan Carling, a member of the Board of Channel grantee the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (or FIMI), has been awarded the prestigious Champions of the Earth Award for her lifetime achievements defending the environment and indigenous rights....

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India Decriminalizes Homosexuality

September 7, 2018 Victories

On September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of India made the ground breaking decision to decriminalize homosexuality after a 24-year struggle by activists. Channel partner CREA played a key role in this struggle as a founding member of Voices Against 377, a coalition of human rights, women’s rights, queer rights,…...

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Radical Hope Fund Award

June 19, 2018 Awards

Channel grantee partners Women Cross DMZ and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, in collaboration with Nobel Women’s Initiative were chosen out of 1,000 applications by the NoVo Foundation to receive funding from their Radical Hope Fund in 2018....

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