FEDERA, a Poland-based partner of Channel’s through Fòs Feminista, made significant progress in 2023 in addressing barriers to reproductive healthcare in Poland for both Polish citizens and Ukrainian refugees....
New Report Highlights Abortion Rights and WHRDs
On November 24, 2023, Amnesty International published a new report, titled “An Unstoppable Movement: A Global Call to Recognize and Protect Those Who Defend the Right to Abortion” which highlighted women’s human rights defenders (WHRDs) and emphasized the need for “an end to the stigmatization of abortion rights defenders”, a…...
NYT Features CREA’s Work on Disability and Sexuality
CREA, a long-time Channel grantee partner, in partnership with T Brand Studio, the content studio of the New York Times, has published “Disability, Sexuality and Consent: How Activists are Reshaping the Narrative”, an article featuring seven disabled activists and their experiences working to advocate for disability, sexuality and consent....
FDA Approves First OTC Birth Control Pill
On July 13, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Opill, a progestin-only birth control pill (POP), for over-the-counter (OTC) use. This news, coming after nearly two decades of advocacy and research by the Free the Pill coalition, means the United States will join over 100 countries where…...
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…...
OutRight Releases Reports on Iraq and Afghanistan
In January 2022, Channel partner OutRight Action International, along with Human Rights Watch, published a report on increased threats to LGBT people in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. In February 2022, OutRight partnered with the group IraQueer to release a similar report on the lives of queer women in Iraq....