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Fueling a courageous network of Human Rights Defenders to end S*xual and Gender-Based Violence

12/03/2026

🇰🇪What began as a virtual collaboration, is now a shared presence on the ground, with now based in Kenya, who finally met , our fellow from Bungoma County, after nearly three years of working together through the Gender Justice Accelerator Program.

Moments like these remind us that behind every program are people, stories, and a shared passion for gender justice✨

10/03/2026

Too often, conversations about s*x work take place without s*x workers, without their voices, expertise, or lived realities.

In our latest episode, “Criminalisation, Harm, and Justice: Rethinking Global Approaches to S*x Work,” we bring together advocates and legal experts to reflect on how criminalisation shapes safety, dignity, and access to justice.

Moderated by (SAHR), the conversation features ( from South Africa, and SAHR Fellow), (Spring of Life from Zimbabwe), and .m.lewis (Human rights lawyer from New Zealand and SAHR resource partner).

Together, they explore how law, power, and public narratives influence the lives of s*x workers, and what a truly rights-based approach could look like in practice. Because gender justice is not simply a technical challenge, it is a question of power, dignity, and whose voices are heard.

🎧 Listen now to the full episode and join the conversation! Link in Bio

08/03/2026

This International Women’s Day, we are reminded that many forms of violence remain unrecognised in criminal law.

In Mexico, stalking has historically received little legal recognition, leaving many survivors without protection. Through the work of our Fellow Diana and the organization Nosotras Para Ellas, legal reforms are beginning to change that reality.

As a result of this work, today, 12 states now recognize stalking as a crime. For thousands of women, this means that behaviors once dismissed as a private matter or minor nuisance are increasingly being acknowledged to have serious consequences for women’s safety.

Legal reform is an important step toward protection. Ultimately however, these protections will only become meaningful when survivors can rely on institutions to enforce them.

On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate women leaders working to strengthen legal frameworks and improve institutional responses to violence against women.

Our Annual Report 2025 is out now, and you can read it on our website

08/03/2026

💜On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate women leaders working to strengthen legal frameworks and improve institutional responses to violence against women.

Across our Gender Justice Accelerator Program, grassroots leaders, advocates and human rights defenders are working to strengthen legal protections and improve institutional responses to gender-based violence.

In 2025, SAHR Fellows worked to:
✔️Advance anti-stalking legislation in Mexico
✔️Strengthen implementation of the Anti-Rape Act in Pakistan
✔️Improve state and community responses to gender-based violence in Kenya
✔️Supporting survivor-centred legal processes in Argentina
✔️Advance advocacy to protect s*x workers in South Africa

💜Advancing women’s protection from violence requires more than awareness. It requires laws to specifically recognize all forms of violence, protect survivors, and incentivise institutions to coordinate holistic responses.

Our Annual Report 2025 is out now, and you can read it on our website!

06/03/2026

🇳🇿Drawing from the experience of New Zealand’s Prostitution Reform Act, .m.lewis reflects on how decriminalization can transform the landscape for s*x workers, strengthening employment rights, health protections, access to services, and safer relationships with police.

Yet, legal change is only the beginning. Stigma and discrimination continue to shape everyday realities, from access to housing to banking services.

🎙️This is another teaser from our upcoming podcast episode marking International Women’s Day 2026, under the theme “Rights, Justice, Action: For All Women and Girls.”

04/03/2026

For , a s*x worker and activist in South Africa, the fight for rights is deeply personal. Through the SAHR Fellowship, she spent 2025 advancing advocacy for the decriminalization of s*x work, challenging stigma and pushing for justice and dignity✨

📣This is the first teaser from an upcoming podcast conversation marking International Women’s Day 2026, under this year’s theme: Rights, Justice, Action: For All Women and Girls.

In this episode, Connie is joined by Precious, a s*x worker activist from Zimbabwe, and .m.lewis, SAHR resource partner and long-time collaborator. The conversation is moderated by , SAHR Co-Director, and reflects on advocacy, sisterhood, and the realities faced by s*x workers fighting for the recognition of their human rights.

🎙️Over the next few days, we will be sharing more teasers and short clips leading up to the launch, so stay tuned!✨

19/01/2026

Transforming First Police Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Tierra del Fuego 🇦🇷

A survivor’s first contact with the police can determine whether they feel protected, or revictimized. That’s why our fellows and led a groundbreaking workshop on first police contact in cases of gender-based violence, with the support of key provincial institutions in Tierra del Fuego.

👏🏽For the first time, police officers participated directly in practical, survivor-centered training, exploring real cases, identifying revictimizing practices, and learning strategies to build trust and protection from day one.

SAHR was proud to be present, emphasizing how the meaningful inclusion of security forces strengthens coordination, trust in State institutions, and transforms responses from punitive to community-based, protective, and humane.

✨The workshop exceeded expectations, drew local media attention, and will now be replicated in two additional cities, expanding its reach and impact.

This milestone shows how training, coordination, and a survivor-centered approach can change systems and lives.

16/01/2026

Today we had our first call of the year with Hagin, our Fellow in Kenya, and the 2025 results are truly incredible.

🎉As a direct outcome of structured capacity-building interventions for paralegals, police officers, and Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in Bungoma County, 186 s*xual and gender-based violence cases were reported in 2025, with 154 cases successfully resolved to date
Beyond the numbers, what stands out most is the growing trust of survivors in the system and in those who serve as first responders.
🔹61 cases were reported directly to paralegals,
🔹72 to CHVs,
🔹and 15 to police officers.

This shows us, once again, that training, coordination, and the support of local governments make real change, and survivor-centered responses, possible!

🚨Our 2025 Annual Report is coming soon with more impact stories like this. Stay tuned

As we look ahead to 2026, we celebrate this continued growth, impact in love , strengthened systems and momentum in driving transformative change in Bungoma.

16/01/2026

Today we had our first call of the year with Hagin, our Fellow in Kenya, and the 2025 results are truly incredible.

As a direct outcome of structured capacity-building interventions for paralegals, police officers, and Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in Bungoma County, 186 s*xual and gender-based violence cases were reported in 2025, with 154 cases successfully resolved to date 🎉
Beyond the numbers, what stands out most is the growing trust of survivors in the system and in those who serve as first responders.
🔹61 cases were reported directly to paralegals,
🔹72 to CHVs,
🔹and 15 to police officers.

This shows us, once again, that training, coordination, and the support of local governments make real change, and survivor-centered responses, possible!

Our 2025 Annual Report is coming soon with more impact stories like this. Stay tuned🚨

As we look ahead to 2026, we celebrate this continued growth, impact in love , strengthened systems and momentum in driving transformative change in Bungoma.

19/12/2025

♦️What happens when the sacred has never looked like you? Like a woman?

For generations, women were taught to find God only in masculine form: Father, Son, never feminine, never embodied, never within…

In this conversation, we reclaim the forgotten half of the sacred story: Mary Magdalene, the divine feminine, the wisdom of the body, and the voice that lives within us!

📣We are happy to finally launch the full podcast episode, which is now available! Link in Bio

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