Our Three Core Rights Pillars: Guided by an uncompromising rights-based framework, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, CEDAW, CRC, and the most recent SDGs, our work targets some of the most critical rights deprivations facing women, youth, and children. We focus our interventions on three core areas that are often interconnected, working to break cycles of vulnerability and discrimination by simultaneously building the capacity of individuals and communities to claim their rights, and holding duty-bearers accountable. This integrated strategy ensures that our impact is both profound and sustainable, building a foundation of safety, agency, and resilience.
This is a prerequisite to all individuals and a non-negotiable foundation for a dignified life. This right is, unfortunately, shattered by violence, denied by inadequate healthcare, and stripped away by forced displacement. Our programs create an integrated safety net to uphold it: we combat violence against women and children (VAW/VAC) to ensure their physical and psychological safety; we advance health and sexual and reproductive rights (SRHR) and nutrition to guarantee bodily autonomy and wellbeing; and we provide social and legal protection for refugees to secure sanctuary and stability for those who have lost everything. By defending this triad of rights, we don't just respond to crises—we rebuild the essential conditions from which recovery, resilience, and future aspirations can grow.
This right is the full flowering of human potential—a right realized not in isolation, but through access to knowledge and work opportunities which enables our target group to build their future through meaningful personal development. Our work cultivates this development by intertwining transformative education and cultural affirmation which foster identity, self-confidence, and critical thought, allowing for further pathways to employability and productive competence. By connecting learning with earning, and valuing both cultural identity and expression for future development, we empower women, youth, and children to shape their own narratives, contribute meaningfully to their communities, and achieve the self-determination that is the essence of transforming them to influential change makers.
Whether facing the devastation of conflicts or the escalating impacts of climate change, women’s rights are threatened by converging crises. The Women, Peace and Securityagenda and the fight for Climate Justice are fundamentally interconnected—both lead to displacement and both addressing contexts where man-made and natural disasters deepen existing inequalities and compound vulnerabilities, often culminating in humanitarian crises of mass displacement. To navigate and recover from these shocks, women require the integrated realization of their right to security (protection from armed violence and natural catastrophes), equality (equitable access to resources and decision-making), and participation (leadership in peacebuilding and climate action). Only by upholding this triad of rights can we ensure women are not merely protected as victims but encouraged as essential architects of resilient, peaceful, and sustainable communities.