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Yifat Susskind

Yifat Susskind is executive Director of Madre, an international organisation that partners community-based women's groups to meet urgent needs and create lasting change

December 2016

  • Protesters opposed to Donald Trump stage a ‘Love trumps hate’ rally in New York

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Women the world over have shown the US how to deal with sexism and racism

    Yifat Susskind
    From Liberia to Colombia and beyond, women have compiled a vast archive of methods to combat threats to their rights. The US need only follow their lead

July 2016

  • A wreath in the main square in Cali, Colombia, with a ribbon reading ‘Farewell to the War’.

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Women are on the frontline of making peace in Colombia last

    Yifat Susskind and Stella Duque
    Realising the ceasefire’s promise lies not in signing the peace deal but in the grassroots activism that women have been leading for years

February 2015

  • Students wear niqab Raqqa Iraq Islamic State

    Women's rights and gender equality
    What will it take to stop Isis using rape as a weapon of war?

    Yifat Susskind
    When so many women have been raped by Isis fighters, the stigma surrounding survivors is gradually being eroded

July 2014

  • IRAQ-UNREST-DISPLACED

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Under Isis, Iraqi women again face an old nightmare: violence and repression

    Yifat Susskind: Isis militants are using rape and brutality to control women who have not stopped mobilising since the US occupation
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