The Womanity Foundation’s founder and board of directors are proud to announce that Ms. Rafia Qureshi Heydrich has joined Womanity at the beginning of May 2017 as Executive Director. Ms. Antonella Notari Vischer leaves her position as Executive Director on 2nd June 2017 and...

Do you know organizations creating safer urban environments for women? It is our great pleasure to announce that nominations are now open for the 2018 Womanity Award, which supports and scales proven, innovative, and replicable approaches that prevent violence against women. Please spread the...

Womanity at the 2017 Geneva Book and Press Fair The Womanity Foundation has convened intrepid writers, journalists and activists to a roundtable discussion on “Arab Women and the Media: A Cultural Revolution” on 27 April 2017 from 3 to 4:30 pm in the Arab...

How to design an animated fiction series “We brought together a stellar pool of talent and expertise of illustrators, designers, filmmakers, senior media operators and representatives of civil society organizations from across the region. Our ambition is to include a rich variety of voices...

“There is a big empty space in which women have no access to technologies, just because they are women.” The Take Back The Tech! campaign recently celebrated 10 years of existence. That global campaign invites people to use technologies to combat online violence against...

How to change gender stereotypes Programme Ra discusses gender with young men living in Lebanon – including host and refugee communities. In this new film, produced by Abaad, we learn about the genesis of this curriculum that transforms gender stereotypes, and how the teams adapted it...

16 Day of Activism. Stop violence against women. As part of a joint campaign with the Womanity foundation and Wikigender organised for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, we invite you to participate into two new and vibrant online discussions and webinars....

Take Back the Tech! Taking control of technology to end gender-based violence by Womanity Award winners APC’s Take Back the Tech team. Take Back the Tech! started as the seed of an idea in 2006, recognising the need to reclaim women’s historical contribution to...

The impact of women in construction The partnership between Womanity Foundation and the University of St. Gallen generated an interesting case study on the impact of Mulher em Construção (MEC), an organization lead by WomenChangeMakers Fellow Maria Beatriz “Bia” Kern in Southern Brazil. Linda Koenig, Master student of the St. Gallen University, São Paulo...

Programme Ra: Redefining manhood in Lebanon The 2014 Womanity Award winners’ new programme, designed to redefine manhood and reduce violence, will reach young men in refugee and marginalized communities in Lebanon. “Boys are raised to think that expressing emotions openly, seeking help, or failure...

Womanity 2015. Enhancing the lives of women and girls What impact is The Womanity Foundation having on the lives of women and girls globally? Over the past 10 years since our inception, 33,000 children in 15 public girls’ schools across Afghanistan have accessed a quality...

Womanity enters Top 200 NGOs The Womanity Foundation rose to the 187th position of the recently released Top 500 NGOs’ 2016 world-wide ranking by NGO Advisor, a Geneva-based independent media. The ranking identifies social development and humanitarian non-governmental non-profit organisations (NGOs), which excel in innovation, impact and sustainability. Womanity empowers...

Be 100 Ragl II. The fiction that empowers women Building on the popularity of the  “Be 100 Ragl I” radio series of 2015 — a soap-opera chronicling the adventures of Noha, an intrepid radio journalist fighting for social justice — the Womanity Foundation is...

Womanity is proud to announce that the 2016 Womanity Award for the Prevention of Violence Against Women goes to the Take Back the Tech! (TBTT!) campaign in Mexico, led by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC, South Africa) and Luchadoras/La Sandía Digital (Mexico). The...

Nisaa Network, the multi-media platform empowering women Nisaa Network’s brand new website is the central platform of a consortium of media outlets, civil society organizations and leading personalities, who collaborate to create and share inspirational, gender-inclusive media content; enhance the voice of women in...

Tackling violence against women through ICTs is a cornerstone of Womanity’s work in 2016. By convening actors driving innovation to prevent violence against women through the Womanity Award for the prevention of Violence Against Women, the foundation will provide three-years of support to two...

The Womanity Foundation is proud to announce its two newly selected WomenChangeMakers (WCM) Fellows in Brazil: Anke Riedel of Casa Angela, a physician whose mission is to humanize birth and improve mortality rates; and Lilian do Prado, co-founder and executive director of Acreditar, a...

The Womanity Foundation is proud to announce its two newly selected WomenChangeMakers (WCM) India Fellows and one WCM Associate Fellow. The selection process was very enriching for everyone involved, as all the candidates are exemplary social entrepreneurs and the jury members fine experts in...