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Women-led responses to COVID-19: Report from Beirut, Lebanon
Dr Olfat Mahmoud leads the Palestinian Women’s Humanitarian Organisation in Lebanon. The organisation works in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, focussed on ensuring the wellbeing of women, children, people with disabilities and those with severe health problems through targeted service provision, as well as advocacy for their rights.
Women-led responses to COVID-19: Report from Monrovia, Liberia
Mmonbeydo Joah Harrell leads the Organisation for Women and Children (ORWOCH) in Liberia – an organisation that champions women’s participation in decision-making, prevention of SGBV, women’s access to justice, and dismantling gender stereotypes.
Women-led responses to COVID-19: Report from Ramallah, Palestine
Ohaila Shomar and Saja Awad Barghouthi work with SAWA, a Palestinian, feminist, non-profit civil society organization working to eliminate all types of violence against women and children, and to promote gender equality in Palestinian society.
Women-led responses to COVID-19: Report from Kathmandu, Nepal
Sumeera Shrestha leads Women for Human Rights, an organisation which works to secure the political, social, cultural and economic rights of single women in Nepal.