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Chris Crowstaff

Founder, Safe World International Foundation

Location: United Kingdom

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Chris Crowstaff is the founder of The Safe World International Foundation, a women’s rights organisation.

Chris has a background in art, gardening and natural nutrition, and home-schooled her two children.

Her life changed abruptly following the birth of her third child, who was stillborn.

Keen to turn a negative experience into positive action, she set up an online women’s network to bring together women from different cultures and backgrounds. A year later, she visited members of the network in the Middle East and Uganda and met very dedicated women working against all odds for women’s empowerment.

The Safe World for Women webzine was the result of this field trip.

Chris lives in rural England and works with a multicultural team of volunteers based throughout the world, from every continent.

The Safeworld International Foundation

The Safeworld International Foundation is an internet-based organisation, run entirely by volunteers.

The webzine, Safe World for Women, is central to the work of the Foundation.

The webzine provides a platform for grassroots women’s organisations in developing countries, advocates for women’s rights activists who are unjustly detained, covers latest news relating to women’s issues and highlights the work of key activists working in the field of women’s rights.

Latest blog posts by Chris Crowstaff

Afghanistan's Young Women - Interview with Anita Haidary - Part 2

29 November 2011 15:53 GMT | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff | The Word on Women
Anita Haidary - co-founder of Young Women for Change in Afghanistan - talks about the future…
An Afghan Schoolgirl - Interview with Anita Haidary - Part 1

29 November 2011 13:52 GMT | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff | The Word on Women
Anita Haidary - co-founder of Young Women for Change in Afghanistan - talks about her childhood...
My half-century and changing times

05 September 2011 11:14 BST | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff |
I have just turned 50. My grandfather was born in the Victorian era. There were no women in parliament. Women rarely ...
Malawi sisters tell of shooting ordeal

29 July 2011 16:31 BST | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff | Africa Views
Two teenage sisters claim they were shot by the Malawi police. I spoke with January Watchman Mvula after he interviewed them.
Sisters claim they were shot at home by Malawi police

26 July 2011 00:03 BST | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff | Africa Views
Two teenage sisters claim they were shot in their legs while they were cooking supper on the evening of the riots in Karonga,...
Demonstrations in Malawi: View from the Ground

22 July 2011 13:57 BST | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff | Africa Views
Interview with Director of SURCOD, an NGO working on the ground with women and children in Malawi
Four days with Sarah Shourd and the UK media

19 July 2011 20:12 BST | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff | Media and Humanitarianism
Six weeks ago I was with Sarah Shourd in London, accompanying her on a gruelling media schedule. For Sarah, this is part of ...
DR Congo and the consequences of war - an insight from the ground

10 July 2011 20:11 BST | Comments (1)
Chris Crowstaff | The Word on Women
Understanding the reasons for the plague of violence in South Kivu, in Eastern DRC. Mugisho Theophile, Safe World DR Congo ...
Deeyah: Pop Star to Activist The Challenges of a Muslim Singer-Songwriter

07 July 2011 11:19 BST | Comments (0)
Chris Crowstaff |
A few months ago I talked with former pop star Deeyah, about her life and her work as an activist. Deeyah is a critically ...