On Feb. 6, 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck parts of Turkey and Syria. As per a CNN live report from a week later, more than 36,000 people were killed and tens of thousands injured by the massive earthquake....
Channel Partner Leaders Address Protests in Iran
Several prominent voices in the press addressing the protests in Iran that began in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa Amini while in police custody have been long-time Channel partners including Mahnaz Afkhami, Founder of Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), and Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE, Founder and CEO of International…...
ICAN Contributes to “Race, Power, and Peacebuilding” Report
On April 26, 2022, Peace Direct published a report, “Race, Power, and Peacebuilding” in collaboration with Channel grantee partner the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) as well as the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY)....
Solidarity with Ukraine
To stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, particularly the women being forced to flee and activists taking on the role of humanitarian responders, consider supporting some of Channel’s longtime partners who are set up to get funds directly to grassroots groups on the ground and are actively engaging…...
Channel Partners Propose “Fund Us Like You Want Us to Win”
In December 2021, Channel partners Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), along with the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), Kvinna till Kvinna, and MADRE, prepared “Fund Us Like You Want Us…...
Feminist Foreign Policy in the US Initiative Launched
On May 21, 2020, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) launched a report alongside more than 50 leading humanitarian, foreign policy, and women’s rights groups including Channel grantee partners Global Fund for Women (GFW), the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), and Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism (UAF),…...