Nadia Murad is asking for justice – and this is how we can support her
The question Nadia Murad wants to ask the UN security council is "Why is it taking so long?" Nadia Murad is one of over 7000 Yazidi women and children who were kidnapped by the IS in 2014. Now she pleads to the government of Iraq and the United Nations to finally...
May we introduce… our member: The Museo de la Mujer in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Para vérsion en espagnol, véase más abajo In 2006 a group of women, professionals and feminists, kicked off the activities MUSEUM OF WOMEN, by then unprecedented initiative in Latin America and with few precedents in the world. While the creation of the museum had...
Just started: The new e-essays project from Zubaan, India
Zubaan, the first feminist publishing house in India, started this week with this new and amazing E-Essays Project. This project wants to make feminist knowledge and academic research more easily accessible. For nearly fifteen years, Zubaan has been publishing quality...
May we introduce… our member: the Antalya Women Museum in Turkey
The Antalya Women Museum is Turkey’s second virtual women museum. It was established on the 23rd November 2015 under the guidance of the Antalya Promotion Foundation, a non-profit organization with the aim to develop tourism on solid foundations and to increase social...
May we introduce… our member: the initiative in Switzerland
The association "Interessengemeinschaft Frau und Museum" in Switzerland was founded by Martha Beéry in 2010 and has set the following goal in its statutes: „The community of interests woman and museum“ creates a platform to show the not so often presented aspects of...
Congratulations to the women’s museum Hittisau!
The women's museum Hittisau will receive the Austrian museum prize of 2017, which is the highest public award for museums in Austria. This is a reason to celebrate, not only for the women's museum Hittisau, but for us all! The women's museum Hittisau was opened as the...