[1] Shocked by the mass rapes of Bosnian women and the lack of media coverage,[2] gynaecologist Monika Hauser went to the conflict area in the former Yugoslavia in late 1992.

Since 2004, subsidies through a project fund have been channelled to selected women's organisations, mainly in the Central African region of the Great Lakes.

Since autumn 2014, the association has been working in the Middle East, in the Syria/Iraq region and Turkey, to support women and girls who are affected and threatened of sexual violence, both in their home countries and as refugees.

Locals are trained to work with traumatised women, advisory and healthcare centres are built and possibilities for securing subsistence are created.

[6] The object is capacity building and supporting an independent life in equity, both through individual work with affected women, and by influencing the societal and political framework.

Since 2006, medica mondiale has been working in the south-east of Liberia in a joint project with the German Welthungerhilfe to provide medical and psychosocial care and support for Liberian women.

Due to the civil war in Syria and the unstable political situation in Iraq caused by the terrorist organisation "Islamic State", the association supports women and girls who are affected and threatened by sexual violence both in their home countries and when fleeing.

This support goes along with measures designed to change political frameworks, structures and social awareness, including training for non-governmental organisations, police and health and legal staff.

Specialists and managers as well as staff from the fields of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, flight and migration, mental health, human rights, peacebuilding or gender justice learn to understand stress, trauma and trauma dynamics in different fields of work and to support people with experience of violence in a sensitised way with regard to the aforementioned topics.

Through educational and human rights work, the association wants to make social and political changes in favour of women, both in Germany and worldwide.

The campaign Im Einsatz (in action) from 2008 to 2011 provided information about women and girls in war and crisis areas and asked for support for them.