Rachel Carter
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Today is International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and I am angry. Why? It feels as if we have spent the last fifty years – and beyond – fighting Hydra – the many-headed serpent. Each time its opponents cut off a head...
The Girl Summit , held to galvanise action to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Child, Early and Forced Marriage was held this week in London. It had extraordinary political support with David Cameron and three other Cabinet...
Much has been written about violence against women over the last few weeks. More than 200 girls kidnapped in north eastern Nigeria by the Boko Haram. Meriam Ibrahim sentenced to death for apostasy and adultery in Sudan. Two girls gang...
Over the last two weeks, women have been defending their rights at the United Nations 58th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. While negotiations over the minutiae of wording in the final agreement may seem a million...
About me
I am the Programme Director for Women's Human Rights at Amnesty UK, and Chair of the Gender and Development Network.
The best advice I was ever given was to find the thing which makes me most angry, then work to end it. Violence against women in its myriad forms and the absence of rights for so many women around the world is what makes me angry - I've spent the last fifteen years doing what I can to change this