by Women Arise Collective Correspondent Jolie Shabani — Kivu In Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, women and girls continue to...

The Women Arise Collective honored the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women” through working in our...

by Teresa Suarez, Women Arise Collective correspondent “According to a 2013 global study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, only 7% of survivors of gender-based violence formally reported the violence to police, medical, or social services.” This study was carried out by Stony Brook University Professor Tia Palermo, Jennifer Bleck of the University of South Florida, and Amber Peterman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Estimated statistics of

Machozi (meaning “tears”) came to the Mama Lynn Center at only 14 years old – an orphan and one of the youngest victims to show up at the...