Interviews:
(Conducted in collaboration with The Hub, the world's first participatory media site for human rights.)
Aisha Lee Shaheed from the Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women, talks about stopping the abuse of women in the name of tradition or religion.
Heather Grady, Policy Director of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, speaks about the Every Human Has Rights campaign and how you can get involved.
Lydia Alpízar, the Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), says that the hard-won political commitment to uphold women's human rights needs to be backed up by real resources.
Mary Wandia, the Regional Women's Rights Coordinator for ActionAid in Kenya, speaks about the post-conflict reconciliation process and her role in working with women's rights leaders to ensure that "women's human rights take the center stage."
Neelanjana Mukhia, of ActionAid International, addresses the importance of understanding the intersections of HIV/AIDS and violence against women (VAW): she coordinates Women Won't Wait.
Sunila Abeyesekera of INFORM in Sri Lanka discusses the Women Human Rights Defenders Campaign and why human rights work needs strategies that specifically address gender.
