El Salvador

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For women who survive acts of violence, finding refuge shouldn't be this difficult

Despite surviving multiple traumas in their home countries, enduring criminalization in Mexico, and being denied asylum by the United States, these women stuck at the US-Mexico border teach us what it means to joyfully resist. It’s time fix the US asylum process to provide lifesaving refuge to people fleeing persecution because of their gender.

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Honoring women changemakers

Meet some of the women Oxfam works with who are leading the charge for equal rights and representation around the globe.

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'She is afraid of nothing'

Danger—from hurricanes, earthquakes, and violence to COVID-19—is a daily fact of life in El Salvador, but women like Morena del Carmen De León Martínez are making a difference.