Terry Benninga is an American-born Israeli mother of three who demonstrates for the rights of Palestinians.

She grew up in St.Louis, married when she was a student and settled with her husband in Jerusalem in 1969; it has since become her home.

Her two young adult children, Sarah and Zvi are activists who protest against Israeli laws that permit the occupation of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers.

It is 2004.  You’ll find me sitting in a one room metal shack owned by a woman named Zolecka Ntuli in a township outside of Cape Town.

I’d gone to South Africa on a personal journey to learn more about HIV/AIDS.

I spent a month crisscrossing the country, interviewing social workers, health care workers, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, academics, business leaders and individuals.

Susan notes: World Pulse, a website dedicated to highlighting global issues through women's eyes, is running a series of stories by women citizen journalists; this is one of them.

I was moved to tears when I read Halima Mohamed Abdel Rahman's personal account of female genital mutiliation.

Article By Jeannie Stokowski-Bisanti

Five years ago Meghan Telpner was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a condition that is commonly believed to have no cure.

She was given the options of surgery and medication for the rest of her life, still without the potential of a cure. Her doctor told her that diet would have no effect and that she would have to learn to live with it.

I basically divide my life by the year 1996.

Many important things happened that year, including the arrest of the unibomber, the discovery that mad cow disease was transmittable to humans, a blizzard that killed 150 people in the US, the start of the fighting in Chechnya, Yasser Arafat was re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority, and…

the Taliban captured Kabul and subsequently become the de facto governors of Afghanistan.

Susan notes: Speaking during the "Rape as a Weapon of War" panel at the Women in the World conference on March 12, 2010, activist and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee presented a novel idea for addressing the problem of rape in the Congo and elsewhere:

Michelle Obama should call a meeting of African first ladies whom Gbowee asserted, would "come running" at her suggestion.

Also see her story below the video.

Article by Ella Kirk, Mom and teacher.

As a teacher, I think that it is vitally important to help empower the younger generation to have a positive impact on the world and to be global citizens.

As a parent of a daughter who has encountered extreme personal struggles, I find it is essential that I support her in all of her passions and for Kyla those are becoming a humanitarian and sewing.