Renate van der Zee

Renate van der Zee (57) is a Dutch journalist, writer and feminist activist. She writes for leading Dutch newspapers and magazines and for the English newspaper The Guardian. Her main focus is on women’s rights. She has done extensive research into the Dutch sex industry and has written many articles and several books on human … Read more

Sodfa Daaji

Sodfa Daaji is a tunisian-italian feminist-abolitionist engaged in Europe and Africa. She advocates for women’s rights, and her activism focuses particularly on how culture, tradition and religion affect the achievement of women’s rights. She is currently the hubs coordinator of Afrika Youth Movement, a youth-led Movement with more than 10.000 members engaged across Africa and … Read more

Lucas Chuffart

Lucas Chuffart, born in 1948. He was a facilitator of youth groups in various organizations. He spent a period in the Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1987 to 1994, where he ensured the training of young people. He has been engaged in the French feminist movement for over 20 years and he is … Read more

Florence Montreynaud

Florence Montreynayd is a French historian, linguist and feminist born in 1948. She launched on the 8th of March 1999 the manifest of the Chiennes de Garde (Female Watchdogs): “To sexually slander a woman in public, is to slander all women”, and after she launched the mixed and internacional mouvement of Chiennes de Garde, which … Read more

Huschke Mau

Huschke Mau is a survivor, having been in prostitution for ten years, with many breaks. She studied in university and founded the activist group Netzwerk Ella, exclusively for women in prostitution. She advocates for the Nordic model. She has two websites, dedicated to herself and to her activist group, and she considers herself lucky for … Read more

Dália Rodrigues

Dália Rodrigues works for Ninho since 1995. She started by doing a curricular internship in the context of a Bachelor of Social Work, from which resulted the study “The good practices of social intervention in Ninho”. She has worked for that association with women in the stages of pre-social reintegration, and also with women who … Read more

Ana Sofia Fernandes

Ana Sofia Fernandes is Vice President of the European Women’s Lobby, Secretary-General of the Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights and Advisor at the Portuguese Economic and Social Council. Between 2010 and 2015 she worked at the European Institute for Gender Equality as Stakeholders’ Coordinator and Resource & Documentation Centre Officer. With studies in International Relations … Read more

Alexandra Silva

Alexandra Silva, activist and researcher in the field of human rights of women and violence against women; trainer of gender equality. She has a Bachelor in Sociology. She is the current President of the Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights and coordinator of projects of feminism and violence against women. She was the co-founder and is … Read more