Artivism is a new strand of the Empath Alliance's work. This is why we started it and what it has made. A policy brief arrives by email, is opened, skimmed, and joins the others. This is not a criticism of policy briefs. We write them, we need them, and they do work that nothing else does. But anyone who has spent a decade handing paper to people with power knows their limits. A brief tells a decision-maker something; it rarely makes them stand still. Artwork by Faustina Gafara In restrictive...

Introducing GIWYN’s response to gender-based violence — and the journey we walk with every survivor. A woman who reaches out to us rarely arrives with a single problem. The violence in her home is tangled with control over her body, her income, her children and her ability to leave at all. For too long, services have asked women to pull those threads apart - to seek help for one crisis while the others go unattended. We have always believed that is the wrong question to ask her. GIWYN is...

A dispatch from the Abortion and Reproductive Justice Conference, Nairobi Empath Alliance members were out in force at ARJC 2026 She did not walk into our office. She ran. Six months pregnant, with a six-month-old baby tied to her back, she had been chased out of her home by a husband who beat her when she came back too tired to finish the housework. She had seen our sign from the street and run towards it because it looked like the one place she might be safe. Someone was there to meet her...