Meet Marwa Dashti, Afghan Refugee and Aspiring Journalist
This International Women's Day, we caught up with Marwa Dashti, a young Afghan woman named Marwa when we were in Albania in 2021.
March 8, 2023
This International Women's Day, we caught up with Marwa Dashti, a young Afghan woman named Marwa when we were in Albania in 2021.
March 8, 2023
The event provided a forum for tangible, actionable commitments towards advancing the rights of women and girls worldwide.
July 6, 2021
Displaced women share their aspirations for the future.
March 8, 2021
Despite the heightened challenges they face on the move, displaced women around the globe are rising up to work toward a better future.
March 2, 2020
Several countries around the world including Jordan are slowly recognizing the right of refugees to work and providing them opportunities to join the formal labor market.
June 20, 2019
Refugees International had the honor of meeting two women, both born in Myanmar, who received the Secretary of State’s 2019 International Women of Courage (IWOC) award.
March 29, 2019
This International Women’s Day, Refugees International is celebrating the women we’ve met who are working on the front lines of change in displaced communities.
March 7, 2019
The Rohingya Women’s Empowerment and Advocacy Network has organized some 400 Rohingya women in Bangladesh into a network of volunteers working to promote the voices of women. Dan Sullivan profiles…
March 6, 2019
This month marks the three-year anniversary of the withdrawal of an 11,000-strong Peshmerga force from Sinjar in northern Iraq. The withdrawal left Sinjar’s Yazidi minority community besieged by Islamic State…
August 8, 2017
I met Amara earlier this week in the office of a local grassroots organization in Borno state’s capital, Maiduguri. Amara, a pretty, cherub-faced girl, was accompanied by her mother with…
February 19, 2016