Results

With your support, we save lives and empower grassroots women’s groups to change policies, protect their rights and strengthen their communities. These are just a few examples of the world of difference you make through MADRE.

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MADRE by the Numbers

$30 million: The value of the material support we have sent to our sister organizations in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia since 1983

Over 130 women and families in Iraq who found shelter, counseling and medical attention in a network of safe houses.

3,000 women farmers in Sudan who use the organic seeds and tools they receive from MADRE to grow the food their families need to survive.

16,628 Palestinians from 10 communities received urgent medical aid from mobile emergency health clinics.

1,000 Indigenous women from 115 communities along the North Atlantic coast of Nicaragua participated in a four-day forum to discuss their rights.

6,000 former child soldiers in Colombia joined in art, drama, sports and theater programs, a way to build self-esteem and imagine peace.

Human Rights Wins

MADRE’s human rights advocacy brings women from our grassroots sister organizations into the process of creating, monitoring and implementing international law.

We use international law to protect women from violence, to end poverty, to build peaceful, sustainable communities and win human rights for all.

We win precedent-setting human rights cases in international courts.

Our Work in Action:

After the earthquake in Haiti, we petitioned to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, requesting urgent action to protect displaced women and girls from sexual violence. And we won— the Commission ruled in our favor!

We used the ruling to mobilize international support and local activism to create concrete changes on the ground in Haiti.

We help our partners to document human rights violations by gathering testimonies.

Our Work in Action:

MADRE and a coalition of international and Syrian women’s rights activists collected personal testimonies from Syrian women who experienced human rights violations, including sexual violence and exclusion from peace negotiations.

We presented our findings to the the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in hopes that they would endorse our recommendations for legal reforms to protect Syrian women.

We provide the resources and training to ensure that community-based women are able to advocate for their rights.

Our Work in Action:

Twenty-five women from seven Indigenous communities in Kenya participated in a training co-led by our partners Rose Cunningham of Wangki Tangni in Nicaragua and Lucy Mulenkei from the Indigenous Information Network in Kenya (IIN). The women learned how they can exercise their rights at home and in their villages. The training also provided them with the opportunity to share information and build solutions to the crises they face, including access to clean water.