We are not an organization that discovered this crisis from the outside. We are the women who lived it, choosing to build something that outlasts the moment that tried to erase us.
Not all at once. One by one, women who had spent years reporting the truth about their country were told to stay home, then told their bylines were a liability, then told there was no more room for them at all. Some kept writing anyway, from bedrooms, under pseudonyms, on phones they had to hide. Others simply disappeared from public life, the way the new authorities intended.
Women Organization for Rights, Dignity and Speech. A Canadian non-profit protecting women journalists, human rights defenders, and civic leaders worldwide.
