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MADRE and partner enable UN Permanent Forum delegation to assess situation in Colombia
Posted on: Friday, July 30, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean, UN
Support from MADRE and our partner, the International Indigenous Women's Forum (IIWF/FIMI), enabled a delegation of the UN Permanent Forum to travel to Colombia in order to assess the situation for Indigenous women there.Contrary to the claims of the Colombian...
Event: NYC Boat Fundraiser for the US to Gaza Campaign
Posted on: Friday, July 30, 2010
Keywords: Gaza, Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Economic Justice, Event
MADRE is supporting the US to Gaza Campaign. Check out the fundraising event listed below. For more information about the campaign, visit www.ustogaza.org. A NYC FUNDRAISING EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED JOIN A SUNSET CRUISE IN NY HARBOR THURSDAY AUGUST...
UN General Assembly Declares Water a Human Right: MADRE Applauds the Decision
Posted on: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Keywords: Water Rights, UN, Human Rights Advocacy, Environmental Justice
Today, the UN General Assembly declared access to water and sanitation a human right. MADRE applauds this decision.17 percent of the world’s population lacks access to safe water. Every year, nearly 1.8 million people (90 percent of them children under...
A Peaceful Boycott Should Not be a Crime
Posted on: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Human Rights Advocacy
In its bid to maintain its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the Israeli government has launched a new offensive, this one against its own citizens. A bill that is currently before the Knesset would allow...
Take Action: Tell the Department of Health and Human Services How the Anti-Prostitution Loyalty Oath Harms Sex Workers
Posted on: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Keywords: Sexual Rights, Human Rights Advocacy
This action alert comes to us from Sex Work Awareness.The anti-prostitution loyalty oath (APLO) is a regulation that has been part of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (aka “Leadership Act”) which requires non-governmental...
You Can Help End Suffering in Gaza
Posted on: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Middle East, Gaza, Water Rights, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
Ghalia, like so many mothers in Gaza, struggles every day to find clean water for herself and her children. And she worries every day about her children becoming sick or even dying from the filthy water they are sometimes forced to drink.
MADRE to Present Findings on Rapes in Camps to Officials in Haiti
Posted on: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMADRE: Rights, Resources, and Results for Women WorldwideContact: Diana Duarte, Media Coordinator (Haiti), media@madre.org, 917-477-3977Yifat Susskind, Policy and Communications Director (New York), 212-627-0444MADRE to Present Findings on Rapes in Camps to Officials in HaitiTuesday, July 27, 2010-Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
New Report Released on Haiti: Our Bodies Are Still Trembling - Haitian Women's Fight Against Rape
Posted on: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Six months after the earthquake in Haiti, we see a continued crisis of safety and security in the displacement camps that has exacerbated the already grave problem of sexual violence. In May and June, MADRE joined delegations coordinated by the...
Born Into War: An Update from MADRE's Exhibit of Photos and Paintings by Former Child Soldiers
Posted on: Monday, July 26, 2010
Keywords: Event, Latin America, Colombia, Peace Building
Last Wednesday evening, MADRE members gathered at the Salt Space in NYC for our event, ‘Born into War,’ an exhibition of photos and paintings by former child soldiers in Colombia and Uganda. The paintings and photos highlighted at the event were...
Clean Water for Gaza: Maryam's Story
Posted on: Monday, July 26, 2010
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Middle East, Gaza, Water Rights, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Profile
Early last year, Israel destroyed much of Gaza’s rudimentary water infrastructure in a protracted bombing campaign. Since then, an ongoing economic blockade has prevented Gazans from importing materials they need to rebuild the water system. Contaminated drinking water is putting...
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The Predictable Disaster: Post Earthquake, Widespread Rape in Haiti Goes Unaddressed (RH Reality Check, July 2, 2010)
Sexual Assaults Add to Miseries of Haiti's Ruins (New York Times, June 23, 2010)
Culture alone fails to account for female genital mutilation (Jurist: Hotline Buzz, June 20, 2010)
Haitian Women: Enter At Center Stage (Huffington Post, March 31, 2010)
Haiti reconstruction starts at home, groups say ahead of UN donor conference (Christian Science Monitor, March 30, 2010)
