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Two traditional Palestinian dresses (thobes) in black fabric with traditional embroidery (tatreez) in pink, blue, yellow and orange threads.

2 Oct 2026

Tatreez: a living archive of Palestine
Two women are sat at a table. One of the women is doing some embroidery and the other woman is watching and smiling.

1 Oct 2026

Learning about Palestinian culture and life through tatreez
Two people are walking along a dry track in Provincia de Taiz, Yemen, carrying large water containers.

28 Aug 2026

Strengthening safeguarding together through local leadership
A woman holds her child sitting on rubble in Gaza.

14 Nov 2025

A Gaza ceasefire without justice or Palestinians at the table is a betrayal
Women farmworkers tending a field in a village in Deir Ez-Zor, Syria

27 Mar 2024

The women left behind in Syria fighting the patriarchal gap
Huwaida wears a light patterned hijab an shields her eyes from the sun as she looks up.

16 Nov 2023

"We rely on a form of social solidarity": Huwaida in Gaza
Civilian houses destroyed with groups of people stood around looking at the rubble.

31 Jan 2023

UK arms sales and the human impact in Yemen
Xenia, Armel and their son Gabriel* 3 at a transit centre in Poland

18 Mar 2022

If you think the world’s refugees have suffered enough, you must read this…