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Middle East

MADRE Articles

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• Día de la MADRE: In Celebration of Mothers around the Globe

• Iraq: Five Years of "Liberation" and an Epidemic of Violence Against Women

• Iraqi Women Say No to US Occupation, No to Islamist Violence: Will US Progressives Stand with Them?

• Iraq Factsheet Companion

• NY Potluck to Support OWFI: 7.28.07

• The Murder of Du'a Aswad

• US must help end tyranny against Iraqi women

• Iraq's Other War: Violence against Women Under US Occupation

• Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq

• MADRE Partner Condemned to Death by Jihadist Group

• Iraqi Police Commit Rape—Armed, Trained, and Funded by the US

• Beyond the Surge: Demanding an End to Bush's War

• The Iraq Debate: Looking for a Few Good Principles

• War on Civilians: A MADRE Guide to the Middle East Crisis

• MADRE Calls for Protection of Civilians as Violence Escalates in Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza

• MADRE Calls for Immediate Halt to Israeli Invasion of Gaza

• Murder in the Name of 'Honor'

• URGENT REQUEST: Support the Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women

• Iraq Violence Demands UN Response: MADRE Calls for International Peacekeepers

• Hamas Takes Over: A MADRE Q & A

• Violence Against Women in Iraq: A MADRE Factsheet

• US Trades Iraqi Women's Rights for Exit Strategy (A MADRE Opinion Piece)

• US Must Stop Iraqi Women's Rights from Unraveling (A MADRE Opinion Piece)

• Iraq's Second-Class Citizens

• The Reconfigured Occupation: Gaza Disengagement Will Not Ease Suffering for Palestinian Women and Families

• Help Defeat Article 14: Defend the Rights of Iraqi Women

• International Law Obligates the US to Uphold the Rights of Iraqi Women: An Open Letter to the US Ambassador to Iraq

• MADRE Opposes Abolition of Iraqi Women’s Human Rights in Draft Constitution

• Ongoing Crisis in the Middle East

• A Vote for Freedom or for Occupation?

• Elections, But No Democracy

• Israeli Army Demolishes Homes and Damages a Kindergarten in Deheisheh Refugee Camp, Palestine

• The View from Falluja

• Hunger in Palestine

• Generations of Hardship

• One Year Later: Women's Human Rights in "Liberated" Iraq

• MADRE Op-Ed: Women's Human Rights in Iraq

• Ten Reasons to Oppose US Militarization of Aid and Reconstruction in Iraq

• Talking with Friends and Family About Iraq

• "Free Societies Do Not Intimidate by Cruelty and Conquest" and Other Great Quotes from Bush's Big Speech to the UN

• Background Resource: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• The Role of Israeli Settler Violence in the Current Crisis

• The Crisis of Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return

• Country Overview: Iraq
• Country Overview: Palestine

Additional Resources

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• Rouge States Embrace: The Bush - Sharon Conference(Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies)
• Resisting Forced Displacement: The Campaign to Stop Israel's Apartheid Wall (Robyn Long, Grassroots International)
• Backs to the Wall: Israel’s Stranglehold on the Palestinian Economy Is Consolidated By a Massive Wall (Lucy Mair and Robyn Long, Dollars & Sense)
• Separation fence forces expanded UN food program (Amira Hass, Haaretz Daily)
• Ending the Occupation: It’s the Law (Fact Sheet #2, US Campaign to End the Occupation)
• Left Behind: The False "Hand-Overs" of Iraq and Saddam Hussein(Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies)
• Beyond Torture: US Violations of Occupation Law in Iraq (CESR)
• Sexual Domination in Uniform: An American Value (Women of Color Resource Center)
• An Empty Sort of Freedom (Houzan Mahmoud, The Guardian)
• Iraq: Briefing paper on food security (IRIN News)
• Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War (The Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus)