Today, on International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we join the international tributes to courageous feminists and activists who are no longer with us, but who remain close to our hearts and minds.
See for example, AWID’s beautiful memorial gallery, to see who we have recently lost with original pieces of art created by visual artist Vienna Rye:AWID gallery
As WIDE+, we remember losing Carmen de la Cruz, a very active member to WIDE+ and WIDE, among her many other contributions to the femnist cause, who died in 2017:
