News stories by Inna Michaeli

TORONTO, Mar 06 (IPS) - Laila Malik is Production Coordinator and Inna Michaeli is Coordinator at the Women Human Rights Defenders program at AWID: Association of Women's Rights in Development

This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of this year's International Women's Day on March 8. Since its explosion onto the social media landscape at the end of 2017, the #metoo movement has continued to gain global traction. Initially centred on powerful Hollywood women breaking decades of silence about sexual abuse and harassment in the industry, the conversation soon spread across global regions and sectors, from #YoTambien in the Spanish-speaking world to #balancetonporc in French.  From China to أنا_كمان# in Arabic. From national governments to universities to international development, the stories are grim, and their pervasiveness has been jarring.

BERLIN, Nov 22 (IPS) - "One challenge we are facing is that we are invisible as a region, and the feminist movement is invisible, both inside and outside the region." Natalia Karbowska, Board Chair of Ukrainian Women's Fund said at a session on Eastern and South-East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia: Getting (back) on global feminist map during the recent AWID Forum held in Bahia, Brazil from the 8^th-11^th September, 2016.