Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú .
They are indigenous women of the Me'phaa nation from the state of Guerrero, Mexico. In 2002, members of the militia raped and tortured Inés and Valentina, who were 25 and 17 at the time. Since then the two women have courageously struggled to attain justice for the crimes committed against them—all while facing hostility from their own government.
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Meet SHIRIN BATSHON-KHOURY . Shirin is a Palestinian activist who works for the Kayan Feminist Organization in Israel. The organization aims to empower Arab women in Israel and protect their rights.
The founders of Kayan felt that Arab women living in Israel experience a kind of "double-discrimination". The Kayan Feminist Association combats this discrimination with grassroots work and capacity-building to foster economic, legal and social equality for the Arab-Israeli women.
Shirin is the coordinator of Kayan's Legal Department. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and has been practicing law since 2002.
Watch Shirin talk about her work with the Kayan Feminist Organization.
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Meet THAWRA STAITI . Thawra is a volunteer with Freedom Theatre in Jenin, in the West Bank of Palestine. Freedom Theatre aims to provide empowerment and healing to children and youth of the Jenin Refugee Camp whose displacement is a result of the occupation. It offers them a respite from the unstable and often violent circumstances of life as a refugee under the occupation.
Freedom Theatre allows for the children and youth to express themselves in a safe space, giving them a forum in which they can freely share their experiences and develop confidence. The project provides Jenin youth with the kind of normal, carefree childhood experience that the conditions imposed by the occupation so often deny them.
Watch Tharwa talk about her work with Freedom Theatre and their cultural exchange program.
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