Human Rights

Victoria Amelina was an acclaimed poet and novelist from Ukraine, and was considering writing a new novel until February 2022, when the Russian attacks on Ukraine reached a full scale invasion and she realized that her talents were needed elsewhere.

France is where Women of Resistance—and ultimately WOR2WOW Productions—was born. Now that we live here for part of each year, I find myself continually discovering more about the very real history that inspired our production. Every conversation, every village, every hidden corner reveals another story.

Azar Nafisi has educated an immeasurable number of people about the horrors faced by women in Iran. Genevieve Pollock writes about her heroic experience and commitment to advocacy.

Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership shares the remarkable journey of Ervin Staub, a scholar and author whose early life was shaped by surviving the Holocaust in Hungary and growing up under communism.