Spotlighting the stories of four recipients of the 2024 International Women of Courage. All across the world, these women are knocking down the barriers that prevent women and girls from reaching their full potential. The U.S. stands with every woman of courage working to build greater stability, greater equality, and greater opportunity.
Established in 2007, this annual award honors women from around the world who have demonstrated exceptional courage, strength, and leadership in order to bring about positive change to their communities, often at great personal risk and sacrifice. To date, under the IWOC program, the U.S. Department of State has recognized more than 190 women in 90 countries. All awardees have advocated for the protection of human rights, advanced gender equity and equality, empowered women and girls, in all their diversity, and fostered peace and government transparency around the world. Read more
Ajna Jusić, is a psychologist and feminist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. She successfully advocated for the passage of the first law in the world that grants special rights to children born through acts of wartime sexual violence.
Rina Gonoi of Japan resigned from the Japan Self-Defense Force and launched a public campaign to expose sexual harassment, prompting other abuse survivors to share their stories. The JSDF is now building a more secure workplace so everyone can defend Japan with dignity.
Fatou Baldeh, a survivor of female genital mutilation and cutting from The Gambia, documented women's experiences during the Jammeh dictatorship, including murder and rape. She saved her young niece from FGM/C, breaking the cycle in her own family.
Rabha El Haymar used the law to get Morocco to recognize her traditional marriage, sparing her daughter a life of stigma as the child of a single mother. A documentary featuring Haymar raises awareness about the plight of single mothers and Moroccan family laws.
Myintzu Win, a criminal defense lawyer from Burma, tirelessly works to champion the rights of marginalized communities, including persons with disabilities, women, children, and the LGBTQI+ community. To date, Win has defended – often pro bono – over 500 clients.
Bangladeshi Supreme Court advocate, Fawzia Karim Firoze, has fought for the rights of marginalized groups for more than three decades. She is currently the head of her own law chamber and serves as the Chairperson for the Foundation for Law and Development.
Volha Harbunova is a human rights defender in Belarus and has been imprisoned, tortured, and received death threats for helping abused women. She has supported victims of domestic violence for 20 years & operated one of the only shelters for children & women in Belarus.
Agather Atuhaire is a renowned journalist, lawyer, and social justice activist in Uganda. She is being honored as an #IWOC for bravely reporting on sexual harassment in the NGO sector, threats to democracy and governance, and abuse of process and excess.
Spotlighting the stories of four recipients of the 2024 International Women of Courage. All across the world, these women are knocking down the barriers that prevent women and girls from reaching their full potential. The U.S. stands with every woman of courage working to build greater stability, greater equality, and greater opportunity.
Established in 2007, this annual award honors women from around the world who have demonstrated exceptional courage, strength, and leadership in order to bring about positive change to their communities, often at great personal risk and sacrifice. To date, under the IWOC program, the U.S. Department of State has recognized more than 190 women in 90 countries. All awardees have advocated for the protection of human rights, advanced gender equity and equality, empowered women and girls, in all their diversity, and fostered peace and government transparency around the world.
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Benafsha Yaqoobi of Afghanistan is an #IWOC for her courageous work to defend the rights of women who have faced violence. She continues to advocate for Afghan girls and those with disabilities for the right to attend school.
Fátima Corozo of Ecuador is being honored as an #IWOC for putting her life on the line to design and implement youth development programs. These programs provide safe alternatives for young people in Esmeraldas, one of the world’s most violent cities.
Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello has spent decades as a Cuban political dissident and is a proponent of human rights and religious freedom. She continues her advocacy, despite serving 7 years in prison and experiencing daily harassment from the Cuban government.
Fariba Balouch, a London-based Iranian human rights activist from Iran, is being honored as an #IWOC for highlighting the Iranian regime’s gender, ethnicity and sect-based discrimination. She continues her activism, despite threats from Iranian authorities.
The 2024 U.S. presidential election may look a lot like the 2020 vote, with the two major party nominations likely going to the same men, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. One big difference will be the use of artificial intelligence, which is playing a growing role in American politics.
Artificial intelligence is an area of computer science that involves programming machines with increasingly human-like abilities.
Artificial describes things made by people as a copy of something natural.
From ChatGPT to the impacts of machine learning on the music and film industry, academia and politics, generative artificial intelligence dominated technology news in 2023. Deana Mitchell takes a look.
Casting doubts on his political rivals’ eligibility to run for the U.S. presidency is one of Republican frontrunner and former President Donald Trump’s key campaign strategies. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias explains how the Constitution lays out who can run for America’s top job.
Joe Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician. He is the 46th and current President of the United States since 2021. Biden was also the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 through 2017 during the Barack Obama presidency. Before becoming Vice President, he was a U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009. He had served in the Senate longer than any other Vice President.
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