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Articles with keyword "Combating Violence Against Women"
MADRE Demands a Women's Human Rights Agenda for the G8
Posted on: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Keywords: US Foreign Policy, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
As the leaders of the 8 largest economies prepare to meet, MADRE demands an end to business-as-usual policies.
Video: MADRE at the CUNY Law Review Symposium
Posted on: Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Keywords: Event, Human Rights Advocacy, Sexual Rights, Combating Violence Against Women
Watch MADRE Executive Director Yifat Susskind speak at a special MADRE and CUNY event honoring Rhonda Copelon.
The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict
Posted on: Monday, May 7, 2012
Keywords: Event, Combating Violence Against Women
Read a press release from our friends at the Nobel Women's Initiative announcing the launch of the Campaign to Stop Rape.
MADRE Partner FIMI at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Posted on: Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Keywords: Event, Combating Violence Against Women, Indigenous Rights, UN
Join us for an in-depth session on how to prevent violence against Indigenous women.
Haitian Partner Malya Villard-Appolon Named a CNN Hero!
Posted on: Friday, April 27, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence against Women
Malya is one of this year's CNN Heroes. Watch her feature on CNN here.
Report and Panel Discussion on Rise of Sexual Exploitation in Haiti
Posted on: Monday, March 12, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Avocacy, UN
UN panel discussion highlights rise of sexual exploitation in Haiti, detailed in MADRE report
Haiti's Women Face Echoes of a Violent Past
Posted on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Avocacy
The current epidemic of sexual violence is rooted in a history of violence against women.
Events: MADRE at CSW
Posted on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Keywords: Events, Women's Health, Economic Justice, Combating Violence Against Women, Environmental Justice, CSW, UN
Join MADRE and our partners for the following events at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
Justice Delayed But Not Denied for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala
Posted on: Monday, February 6, 2012
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America, Indigenous Rights, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE stands with Indigenous Guatemalan women demanding justice for war crimes under Rios Montt.
Women Standing Up to Violence in Guatemala City
Posted on: Friday, January 20, 2012
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America, Combating Violence Against Women
Read a project update from MADRE's partner organization in Guatemala, the Women Workers Committee.
Virtual Briefing on Sexual Exploitation in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights, Human Rights Advocacy
Listen to a recording to hear the authors discuss their report on sexual exploitation in Haiti and take questions from listeners.
Sex Workers' Rights Are Human Rights
Posted on: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights, US Foreign Policy, Human Rights Advocacy
Like all people, sex workers are protected under international human rights standards.
Sexual Exploitation in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Avocacy
Learn more about a report detailing the impact of sexual exploitation on displaced women and girls.
Press Release: Groups Release Report Analyzing Sexual Exploitation in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Avocacy
Two years after the Haiti earthquake, MADRE releases a report on sexual exploitation.
Photo Update from Guatemala
Posted on: Saturday, December 24, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE's Partners in Guatemala Demand an End to Gender-Based Violence MADRE's partner organization in Guatemala, The Women Workers Committee, has been dedicated to ending the epidemic of violence against women and girls in their community. Recently, on the...
Women in Egypt Come Together to Protest Violent Attacks
Posted on: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Keywords: Middle East, Africa, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Women Human Rights Defenders
Women are being beaten and sexually assaulted for protesting to demand an end to military rule. But they're not stepping down.
US No Help to Afghan Rape Survivors
Posted on: Monday, December 5, 2011
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, US Foreign Policy, Combating Violence Against Women
Standing with Afghan rape survivors does not mean supporting US military occupation.
Event: A Panel Discussion with MADRE's Human Rights Advocacy Director
Posted on: Friday, December 2, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Avocacy
On December 7 MADRE's Human Rights Advocacy Director will participate in a panel about human rights in Haiti.
Haiti Photo Update
Posted on: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE staff members recently visited Haiti to bring shoe donations to a group of community organizers with KOFAVIV, MADRE's Haitian sister organization- and we'd like to share some of our photos with you!
To learn more about...
Creating a Space for Justice in Colombia
Posted on: Thursday, November 10, 2011
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America, Women's Human Rights, Sexual Rights, Combating Violence Against Women
Project Update: Symbolic Tribunal in Colombia
Photo Update from Haiti
Posted on: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE staff members recently visited Haiti to bring shoe donations to a group of community organizers with KOFAVIV, MADRE's Haitian sister organization- and we'd like to share some of our photos with you!
To learn more about...
Iraq Withdrawal Does Not Mean the War Is Over
Posted on: Monday, October 24, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, US Foreign Policy, Combating Violence Against Women
The war is far from over--especially for women and girls.
Tracing MADRE's Human Rights Advocacy for Haitian Women
Posted on: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Avocacy
Our human rights advocacy strategy helps amplify the priorities of Haitian women for safety, basic services and more. Here's how.
Haitian Women's Rights Activists Demand an End to Sexual Violence
Posted on: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Avocacy, UN
Today, the demand of Haitian women's rights activists for an end to violations of their human rights will be heard at the United Nations in Geneva.
Ten Years of War in Afghanistan
Posted on: Friday, October 7, 2011
Keywords: Afghanistan, women's human rights, Us foreign policy, combating violence against women
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. Often overlooked is the experience of Afghan women since the beginning of the U.S invasion. Below are some resources for those who would...
Take Action: Demand a United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Burma
Posted on: Friday, September 23, 2011
Keywords: United Nations, Burma, Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights, US Foreign Policy, Asia
MADRE urges the United Nations to establish a Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity in Burma.
Stop Violence against Women Human Rights Defenders
Posted on: Thursday, September 8, 2011
Keywords: Women Human Rights Defenders, Combating Violence Against Women, Afghanistan, Iraq
One decade later, Afghanistan remains the most dangerous place on earth to be a woman.
Underreported and Unchecked: Sexual Violence against Somali Refugee Women
Posted on: Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Combating Violence Against Women
Amal left her village in Somalia when she realized that there was nothing left there for her.
US base ammunition training contaminates and devastates District of Haweeja in Iraq
Posted on: Friday, August 26, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Women's Health
Hundreds of childbirths with disabilities and teenagers struck with cancer.
Coalition Calls for the Immediate Release of Iranian Women Human Rights Defender
Posted on: Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Keywords: Iran, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Women Human Rights Defenders
MADRE endorses the call for Iranian authorities to release Maryam Bahreman.
A Blueprint for Ending Sexual Violence after Disaster
Posted on: Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Human Rights Avocacy
After disaster, women face an increased risk of violence, including rape and sexual assault
A Visit to Our Sister Organization in Haiti
Posted on: Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
This week, MADRE staff is in Haiti to meet with our sister organization KOFAVIV to develop our work together.
Video: Iraqi Women Protesters Continue to Face Sexual Harassment
Posted on: Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building
MADRE's partner organization, OWFI, appeared on Al Jazeera this week to talk about their continuing protests.
Video: A Message to MADRE Supporters from Yanar Mohammed
Posted on: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building
Yanar speaks about MADRE's support of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq.
Updates on the Use of Repressive Tactics against Peaceful Protesters in Iraq
Posted on: Monday, June 13, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building
Violence and intimidation against women's rights activists continues in Baghdad.
Women from Around the World Condemn Attack on Peaceful Protesters in Iraq
Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building
MADRE joins women from around the word in calling for an end to sexual assault of women protesters.
Iraqi Human Rights Activists Are Sexually Assaulted and Beaten
Posted on: Friday, June 10, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building
Today, MADRE learned that pro-democracy activists who gathered in Baghdad's Tahrir Square were brutally attacked by un-uniformed forces.
Award Presented for International Ruling on Sexual Violence in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, June 2, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE's work combating violence against women in Haiti was among the winners of the annual Gender Justice Uncovered Awards.
Event: "The Way We See It"
Posted on: Monday, April 25, 2011
Keywords: Event, Haiti, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean
Announcing an upcoming exhibition of Haitian women's photography, opening in New York on the evening of April 28th.
Gender-Based Violence Against Haitian Women & Girls in Internal Displacement Camps
Posted on: Thursday, April 7, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, UN, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean
MADRE submitted this report to the UN Human Rights Council, in preparation for a review of human rights in Haiti in October 2011. To download a pdf version of this report in its entirety, click here. 1. This...
New York Times Editorial Shines a Light on Sexual Violence in Haiti
Posted on: Monday, April 4, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Earthquake
Today, the New York Times published an editorial about the crisis of sexual violence in the displacement camps in Haiti and about the work of our sister organization, KOFAVIV, to offer urgent care to rape survivors. We applaud the New...
Take Action: Save Iman al-Obeidi
Posted on: Monday, April 4, 2011
Keywords: Libya, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women
This petition, calling for the Turkish government to take action and save Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman dragged away after reporting her rape by Qaddafi security forces to foreign journalists, comes to us from Avaaz.org.Last Saturday, a young woman lawyer...
Kidnapping and Torture of Al Tahrir Organizer Alaa Nabil by Iraqi Intelligence
Posted on: Friday, March 25, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women
We just received the following statement from Yanar Mohammed, the director of our partner organization in Iraq, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). She writes about the kidnapping and torture of Alaa Nabil, a youth activist and organizer...
International Human Rights Hearing on Rape Epidemic in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy, Earthquake
This Friday, MADRE and KOFAVIV will testify before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on the crisis of rape in Haiti.
Project Update from Haiti: Human Rights Advocacy Training for Grassroots Women
Posted on: Friday, February 25, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
Read the second part of the update on MADRE's recent trip to Haiti.
Haiti Update: Visiting KOFAVIV: A Refuge for Rape Survivors
Posted on: Friday, February 25, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women
Read part one of the update on MADRE's recent trip to Haiti.
Vote for MADRE in the Third Annual Gender Justice Uncovered Awards
Posted on: Friday, February 18, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE is proud to announce some exciting news! We have been nominated for the Third Annual Gender Justice Uncovered Awards, which recognizes advances in international law for women’s human rights. This incredible honor acknowledges our recent victory, when the Inter-American...
MADRE's Executive Director Yifat Susskind Blogs about her Trip to Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE's Executive Director Yifat Susskind is keeping us informed about her first work trip to Haiti through the myMADRE Blog. She updates us on the current atmosphere in Port-au-Prince, and shares her experiences visiting with MADRE's sister organization KOFAVIV, meeting...
A Message To Our Sister Organization KOFAVIV
Posted on: Thursday, January 13, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Earthquake
Yesterday, to recognize the year that has passed since Haiti's earthquake and to express our ongoing committment to the women and girls of Haiti who have faced an escalating epidemic of sexual violence since the disaster, we...
One Year Since the Haiti Earthquake
Posted on: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Earthquake
Read MADRE's one-year update on sexual violence against women and girls in Haiti's displacement camps
One-Year Report Released on Sexual Violence in Haiti
Posted on: Monday, January 10, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Earthquake
A new report, entitled Our Bodies Are Still Trembling: Haitian Women Continue to Fight Against Rape, is released today
IACHR Sets Recommendations for Haitian Government to Address Sexual Violence in IDP Camps
Posted on: Thursday, January 6, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy, Earthquake
A group of human rights advocates and attorneys call on the Haitian government to take immediate steps to prevent sexual violence against Haitian women and girls.
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Posted on: Thursday, December 16, 2010
Keywords: Event, Combating Violence Against Women, Sex Workers
MADRE and other organizations are sponsoring a vigil and community speak-out in New York City.
Download Our Flyers to Call for an End to Violence Against Women!
Posted on: Friday, December 10, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights
MADRE releases public education materials to highlight the many threats women face, and the ways they demand their human rights.
Statement By UN Women Leader Michelle Bachelet on International Day on Violence Against Women
Posted on: Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Keywords: UN, Combating Violence Against Women
To end violence against women, we must all unite.
MADRE Staff and Partners Speak: Feminist Dialogue on Militarism and Military Intervention
Posted on: Monday, November 22, 2010
Keywords: Event, Combating Violence Against Women, 16 Days of Action
Don't miss MADRE staff and partners at this dialogue and vigil hosted by the Center for Women's Global Leadership.
Human Rights Groups File Legal Petition on Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Camps for Displaced in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
Today, a group of advocates and attorneys for displaced women in Haiti submitted a petition calling for urgent action to confront an epidemic of sexual violence in the camps for displaced people.
Campaign to Combat Violence Against Women
Posted on: Friday, October 15, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights, Human Rights Advocacy
Help us raise $75,000 by December 1!
MADRE Talking Points on the Millennium Development Goals: Five Years Left
Posted on: Monday, September 20, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Women's Health, UN
In 2000, world leaders representing all 191 countries that belong to the United Nations pledged to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. These goals aimed at tackling some of the most pressing threats of our time – gender...
Kenya: Conserving Water, Saving Lives
Posted on: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Keywords: Kenya, Africa, Environmental Justice, Water Rights, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE is working with our partner in Kenya, the Indigenous Information Network (IIN), to support the Kilgoris Girls' School. Together, we are providing young girls with a safe space where they can grow and learn without fear of a forced marriage.
Photos: MADRE Partners in Haiti Organize Sit-In
Posted on: Friday, August 13, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Human Rights Advocacy
Early yesterday morning, MADRE partner and grassroots Haitian women's organizations KOFAVIV and FAVILEK organized a sit-in at the Haitian national palace to demand shelter for earthquake survivors and action to end the gender-based violence that is so common in the camps.
UN Agencies Listen to Grassroots Haitian Women's Organizations
Posted on: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Two weeks ago, MADRE's Lisa Davis and Diana Duarte traveled to Haiti to meet with our partners from KOFAVIV. While there, they visited one of the camps where our partner organization KOFAVIV is working, distributed supplies to the women in...
Rape a Part of Daily Life for Women in Haitian Relief Camps
Posted on: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Womens Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Below is an update from the Ms. Magazine blog by Gina Ulysse and discusses the work being done by MADRE and our partners in Haiti. Even after the aftershocks of the devastating Jan. 12 quake subsided, women’s bodies were still...
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...
Haiti Six Months Later: Reports from the Ground
Posted on: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women
Violence Against Women in Haiti
Prepared for Congressional Briefing Hosted by TransAfrica ForumHaiti Six Months Later: Reports from the Ground Epidemic of Rapes Against Women and Girls in Haiti’s IDP CampsIn the wake of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti,...
Six-Month Progress Report on MADRE's Response to the Haiti Earthquake
Posted on: Friday, July 9, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
MADRE has worked in Haiti since the early 1990s. When the earthquake struck, we immediately reached out to our sister organizations. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to provide them with life-saving support.
MADRE Member Support is a Lifeline for Zarbobo
Posted on: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Keywords: Afghanistan, Combating Violence Against Women, Profile, Human Rights Advocacy
I am so pleased to be able to tell you what an important difference MADRE members have made - support for the Afghan Women's Survival Fund was a lifeline for Zarbobo, a woman who lived in fear and hunger for...
Ending Sexual Violence in Haiti Requires Women's Participation
Posted on: Thursday, July 1, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
On June 30th the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held a special policy dialogue on “The role of women in countries in special situations.” MADRE representatives attended this dialogue and talked with State members as well as experts on the...
Event: Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence against Women: Linkages to Education, Economic Security and Health
Posted on: Thursday, June 3, 2010
Keywords: Event, Combating Violence Against Women
The National Council for Research on Womenin Partnership with the US National Committee for UNIFEMAnnual Conference 2010 Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence against Women:Linkages to Education, Economic Security and Health Hosted by The Women and Gender Studies Program and Roosevelt House,Hunter College,...
Be a Lifeline for Women in Afghanistan
Posted on: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Keywords: Afghanistan, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
The situation in Afghanistan is extremely dangerous for women, and the ones who speak up for their rights are in the greatest danger of all.In fact, at the very moment I write this, 39-year-old Ranna Tareen, director of Kandahar's Women's...
STANDING UP FOR AFGHAN WOMEN: The Afghan Women's Survival Fund
Posted on: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Keywords: Afghanistan, Combating Violence Against Women, Profile, Human Rights Advocacy
Afghan women have been denied their human rights for decades—the right to education, to work, to health care, to political participation. More than 87 percent of Afghan women cannot read or write. Pervasive violence against women is now considered a...
Advocating for Women's Human Rights in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
An update on our work in Haiti:Lisa Davis, an attorney working with MADRE, traveled to Haiti last week as part of a delegation of human rights attorneys with the Lawyers' Earthquake Response Network (LERN), a project of the Institute for...
Post-Earthquake Violence Against Women in Haiti: Failure to Prevent, Protect and Punish
Posted on: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
MADRE is working as part of a coalition of organizations seeking justice for women in Haiti. The coalition submitted the following statement to the UN Human Rights Council for the upcoming session.
Haiti Lawyers Collect Rape Survivor Accounts and Plan Legal Strategy
Posted on: Friday, May 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
MADRE partner Maria Suarez of the Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) wrote about the delegation of human rights lawyers who recently travelled to Haiti to collect the testimony of rape survivors. Lisa Davis, an attorney working with MADRE, was part...
Act for Afghan Women
Posted on: Thursday, May 13, 2010
Keywords: Afghanistan, Combating Violence Against Women, Profile, Human Rights Advocacy
As Afghan President Karzai wraps up his visit to Washington, DC, we at MADRE noticed something is missing. We have seen news stories about the upcoming military offensive in Kandahar, about the Taliban's continuing hold on power and about funding...
Take Action Now to Stop Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
Posted on: Monday, April 26, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women
Targeting: Major General Gerardo Christian Chaumont (UN Pol, MINUSTAH), Edmond Mulet (UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General), Yukio Takasu (President UN Security Council), Force Commander Major General Luiz Paul Cruz (MINUSTAH), Rashida Manjoo (UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women)...
MADRE Speaks: Stories of our Sisters 2010
Posted on: Thursday, April 22, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
This month, MADRE published Stories of our Sisters 2010, our Spring/Summer Newsletter. Read the letter from Executive Director Vivian Stromberg below and check out the newsletter online. If you would like us to send you a print copy, please call...
Event: Vivian Stromberg to be presented with the Vagina Warrior award
Posted on: Monday, April 12, 2010
Keywords: Event, Activist, Combating Violence Against Women
Join us at a special presentation of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues on Sunday, April 18th @ 7pm. Vivian Stromberg, MADRE's Executive Director, will be honored at the event for her many years of fighting for women's human rights around...
Executing Du'a Khalil's killers is not justice, but a violation of human rights
Posted on: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
Statement by MADRE partner organization Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Representative Abroad, Houzan Mahmoud. According to official sources at Ninawa Criminal Court, the four people charged with the stoning of Du'a Khalil Aswad on 7 April 2007 have been...
OWFI Releases Study on Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Girls
Posted on: Friday, March 5, 2010
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Sexual Rights, CSW
Today, MADRE's partner organization, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), released the report "Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Girls in Iraq." Yanar Mohammed, director of OWFI, presented the findings at a panel discussion held by the Coalition...
Event: 2020 VISION - Mobilizing for Women's Rights and Eliminating Violence Against Women
Posted on: Thursday, March 4, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Event
March 5, 2010 | 9:30 AM - 4:30 PMThe New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York CityFREE | Seats are limited | RSVP to wlp@learningpartnership.orgAs we enter the second decade of the...
MADRE Programs Combating Violence Against Women in Armed Conflicts
Posted on: Thursday, March 4, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Afghanistan, Sudan, Colombia, Guatemala, Palestine, Iraq
Guatemala In the past decade, nearly 4,000 women and young girls have been murdered in Guatemala. Many of them, including girls as young as 10, were tortured and raped, their bodies left in public places. As a result, women have...
Event: Comparative Strategies to End Violence Against Women
Posted on: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Afghanistan, Sudan, Colombia, UN, CSW, Event
Join MADRE for a Panel Discussion & Photo Exhibit Addressing Violence Against WomenWomen using human rights to strengthen anti-violence strategies: Afghanistan, Sudan, Colombia and the United States. March 3, 2010From 12pm - 1:30pmLunch Included!United Nations Church Center (10th Floor)777 United Nations PlazaNew...
Update from the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
Posted on: Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice
Dear Friends OWFI wishes you a happy New Year. We hope that 2010 becomes a year of achievement and empowerment for women around the world. We thank all those who supported and helped us become a strong voice towards change in Iraq. Our...
Afghanistan Update: MADRE Members Come Through for Naseema
Posted on: Monday, December 21, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, Combating Violence Against Women, Women's Health, Profile
Fantastic news! Thanks to the support we were able to raise through the Afghan Women's Survival Fund, Naseema and her three children are—right now—making their final preparations to escape Afghanistan. Naseema is frightened, but incredibly relieved to finally have the...
MADRE Partner at the Launch of UN Campaign to End Violence Against Women
Posted on: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, UN
Raising the Voices of Maquila WorkersToday, Human Rights Day, officially marks the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign. The 16 Days Campaign, which begins annually on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against...
Naseema's Story: The Price of Her Courage
Posted on: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, Combating Violence Against Women, Women's Health, Profile
Naseema knew full well what her husband was capable of—and still she chose to report him to the authorities for murder. Now, her life is in constant danger, as her husband tries to track her down, and her only hope...
Message of Solidarity with Guatemalan Women
Posted on: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, UN
We at MADRE, an organization demanding women’s rights worldwide, are outraged and angered by the violence against women in Guatemala and the apparent lack of repercussions perpetrators of women’s violence face. The fact that we must use terms such...
UN Secretary General's Campaign Being Launched from Guatemala
Posted on: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Guatemala, UN
November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In awareness of this day and the ongoing violence that women face in their homes and communities, the UN launched a campaign calling on governments, civil society,...
Second Forum of Indigenous Women from Wangki: United we Construct our own Worth, Strength, Happiness and Wellness
Posted on: Friday, October 9, 2009
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America & Caribbean, Indigenous Rights, Combating Violence Against Women
A Declaration from the Second Forum of Indigenous Women from Wangki held in Waspam, Nicaragua. Representatives from MADRE and our partner organization Wangki Tangni attended.Women from the following communities gathered in Waspam, the capital of Wangki, from October 1st through...
Building an Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women (Video Interview)
Posted on: Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Yanar Mohammed
In the years since the invasion of Iraq, and as the US lent support to fundamentalist political forces keen on undoing women’s rights, women have been increasingly targeted with violence and death threats. Together, MADRE and the Organization of Women’s...
A Call to Indigenous Womens Organizations to Stop Violence Against Triquis Women
Posted on: Thursday, July 30, 2009
Keywords: Mexico, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Indigenous Rights
From MADRE's partner organization, the International Indigenous Women's Forum (IIWF/FIMI). On July 5, 2007, sisters Virginia and Daniela Ortiz Ramirez, residents of a Triqui town located in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, were seen for the last time. Two years...
Stop the Execution of Female Prisoners in Iraq
Posted on: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women
End Capital PunishmentOWFI's Campaign toStop the Execution of Female Prisoners in Iraq Eleven female prisoners were taken to the extreme protection prison in Kadhimia in Baghdad two months ago for the purpose of execute capital punishment on them.In spite of...
Solidarity Statement on the Global Day of Action for Human Rights in Iran
Posted on: Saturday, July 25, 2009
Keywords: Iran, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Women Human Rights Defenders
On the occasion of the Global Day of Action for Human Rights in Iran, members of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD IC) express solidarity with the civil society in Iran in their struggle to demand that the...
A Step Forward: Survivors of Domestic Violence Now Eligible for Asylum in the US
Posted on: Thursday, July 16, 2009
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Mexico
With a recent court filing in the case of a woman from Mexico seeking asylum in the US, the Obama Administration has signaled a shift in immigration law to make it possible for women survivors of severe domestic and sexual...
Stories of our Sisters
Posted on: Monday, July 13, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Sudan, Peace Building, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Iraq: Art Action for Peace “The US gave us a government that plunged us into civil war,” Yanar Mohammed says. “But in Baghdad, there were brave Sunni and Shiite youngsters who refused to hate each other.” “With MADRE’s help,...
An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton
Posted on: Saturday, June 6, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women
Yanar Mohammed, president of MADRE partner Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq June 6, 2009 Thank you, Hillary, for submitting to our patriarchs. In a visit to Egypt which was meant to be a landmark in US-Arab relations, Hillary Clinton chose to...
Human Rights Advocacy at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Posted on: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Keywords: Indigenous Rights, Combating Violence Against Women
Last week, representatives from around the world traveled to New York for the eighth annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). The goal of this year’s forum was to advance the implementation of the UN Declaration on the...
An Open Letter from the Continental Network of Indigenous Women to the Peruvian Government
Posted on: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Keywords: Peru, Latin America, Indigenous Rights, Combating Violence Against Women
By Tarcila Rivera Zea, member of MADRE's Network of Experts Partial translation from the original Spanish. Continental Network of Indigenous WomenSouth American RegionLima, May 13, 2009To: Alan Garcia Perez, President of the Republic of PeruJavier Velasques Quesquen, President of the Congress of...
The War on Iraq: Six Years of Women's Resistance
Posted on: Monday, March 16, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
After Six Years, Some US troops Will Leave Iraq. But Where Are We Leaving Iraqi Women? March 16, 2009If you haven’t thought about the Iraq War as a story of US allies systematically torturing and executing women,...
After Six Years, Some US troops Will Leave Iraq. But Where Are We Leaving Iraqi Women?
Posted on: Monday, March 16, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Peace Building, Combating Violence Against Women
If you haven’t thought about the Iraq War as a story of US allies systematically torturing and executing women, you’re not alone. Likewise, if you were under the impression that Iraqi women were somehow better off under their new, US-sponsored...
MADRE Joins Other Women's Organizations in Thanking President Obama for Rescinding the Global Gag Rule
Posted on: Friday, January 23, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
January 23, 2009President Barack Obama1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Obama,The undersigned organizations working to promote women's sexual and reproductive health and rights write to express deep gratitude for your repeal of the Global Gag Rule. We thank you...
16 Days, 16 Entries
Posted on: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Combating Violence Against Women, Women's Health
16 Days, 16 Entries November 25 - Since 1991, the Center for Women’s Global Leadership has held the 16 Days of Activism, a time each year for us to recognize the global threat that gender violence represents. The sixteen days...
Campaign to stop polygamy in Kurdistan-Iraq
Posted on: Monday, October 27, 2008
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Peace Building, Combating Violence Against Women
-To the Kurdish Parliament and the Kurdistan Regional GovernmentWe demand the repeal of polygamous marriages and all other discriminatory laws against women in Kurdistan.On October 27, 2008, legislation allowing polygamous marriages was passed in a parliamentary session in Erbil, the...
Iraq: Art Action for Peace, Project Update
Posted on: Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Peace Building, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
Art Action for Peace, a MADRE and OWFI project, extended its efforts to unite Iraqi youth through poetry, music, and other art forms. Since late June 2008, young poets have organized one major community event and continued to hold small...
Iraqi Women Say No to US Occupation, No to Islamist Violence: Will US Progressives Stand with Them?
Posted on: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
Since the US bombing of Afghanistan in 2001, the Bush Administration has resurrected the hackneyed colonial notion that its military intervention is intended to save Muslim women from their oppressive societies. As Laura Bush said, “The fight against...
Iraq: Five Years of "Liberation" and an Epidemic of Violence Against Women
Posted on: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
Unleashing a Campaign of Violence Since the US invasion of 2003, Iraqi women have endured a public campaign of harassment, beatings, abduction, rape, and assassinations. The main perpetrators are militia fighters who see violence against women...
Event: What are Sexual Rights?
Posted on: Monday, March 17, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Sexual Rights
DAWN – Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era International Council on Human Rights Policy MADRE and The Sexual Rights Initiative (i) invite you to a parallel event: WHAT ARE SEXUAL RIGHTS? A DIALOGUE, INVOLVING WOMEN...
FOR WOMEN IN IRAQ, THE WAR RAGES ON. YOU CAN HELP.
Posted on: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
Dear Friend of MADRE, I just spoke with Yanar Mohammed, Director of our partner, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), and I knew I needed to write to you immediately. Yanar describes a truly desperate situation...
CSW Events
Posted on: Monday, February 25, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean
Event Announcements MADRE at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2008 Launch of the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign Human Rights for Women — Human Rights for All: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration...
Bush's Legacy vs. African Women's Lives
Posted on: Friday, February 22, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Africa
President Bush headed home on Thursday from his five-day, five-country tour of Africa. Not since Thanksgiving 2003, when he showed up at the Baghdad Airport with a fake turkey for US troops have we seen such saccharine Presidential photo ops....
Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya
Posted on: Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Kenya, Africa
From day-one of the crisis that has gripped Kenya this year, much of the mainstream media has been quick to label the violence "tribal warfare," while the top US envoy to Africa called the Kenyan clashes "ethnic cleansing." The problem...
Who is Killing the Women of Basra?
Posted on: Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
In Basra, Iraq's second largest city, 2008 was ushered in with an announcement of the 2007 death toll of women targeted by Islamist militias. City officials reported on December 31 that 133 women were killed and mutilated last year, their...
Deforestation, Climate Change, and Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Saturday, December 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Climate Change
Forests are finite natural resources that provide climate stability, food, water, fuel, medicine, building material and cultural contexts that sustain life as we know it. By disabling the carbon-cycling capacity of the Earth, deforestation threatens the survival both of people...
Violence Against Women: Sixteen Ways Women are Fighting Back
Posted on: Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East
On November 25, 2007, advocates around the world for women's human rights commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and simultaneously launched sixteen days of action. These sixteen days—culminating on December 10, Human Rights Day—mark...
Rule of Law, Not Martial Law: MADRE Urges Defense of Civil Society in Pakistan
Posted on: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Pakistan
MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, is deeply concerned about the safety and freedom of those in Pakistan who are defending human rights and the independence of the judiciary. Since November 3, more than 1,500 members of Pakistan's human...
"Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week": Conscripting Feminism into the War on Terror
Posted on: Friday, October 26, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
US feminists found themselves in strange company this week. In days of campus activity labeled "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" (IFAW), conservative writer David Horowitz and his fellow travelers issued a call for an end to the oppression of women in Muslim...
Report vs. Reality: What General Petraeus Didn't Say
Posted on: Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
September 11, 2007 Report: The General claimed that the surge has reduced the killing of Iraqi civilians. Reality: No independent assessments support this assertion. In fact, the head of the Congressional Government Accountability Office says his agency has a “strong...
Stand for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Posted on: Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights
MADRE Calls for the Adoption of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesOn September 13, the UN General Assembly will decide whether to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration establishes a framework for...
The Murder of Du'a Aswad
Posted on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
Recently, a mob of frenzied men beat and stoned to death a 17-year-old girl, Du'a Khalil Aswad, in northern Iraq. She was murdered by relatives and neighbors for falling in love with someone that her community did not approve of,...
Program Highlights: Summer 2007
Posted on: Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa
MADRE Speaks: Spring/Summer 2007 Program Highlights KENYA Indigenous Information Network With MADRE's support, the women of our sister organization, the Indigenous Information Network (IIN), held a three-day celebration and human rights training for women. The event attracted more than...
Summer 2007: From the Executive Director
Posted on: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa
MADRE Speaks:Spring/Summer 2007 Letter from the Executive Director, Vivian Stromberg Dear Friends, In April, I visited the communities of our sister organizations on the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, home to most of the country's...
Indigenous Women: Fighting for Rights, Creating Change
Posted on: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Indigenous Rights
MADRE Speaks Spring/Summer 2007 Long-time MADRE supporters may recall that our first partnership—formed in 1983—was with Indigenous women in Nicaragua. Ever since then, MADRE has worked with Indigenous women who are organizing to...
Violence against Indigenous Women
Posted on: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Indigenous Rights
by Mónica Alemán April 25, 2007 We as Indigenous women have always worked to combat rape and other forms of sexual violence through strategies that recognize that their rights as women and as Indigenous Peoples are inextricably...
US must help end tyranny against Iraqi women
Posted on: Sunday, April 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
The following op-ed was distributed by the Progressive Media Project, and published by the Augusta Chronicle and the Times Union of Albany, NY. Human rights still elude Iraqi women. And the United States must take action to end the abuse...
MADRE Report on Gender-Based Violence in Iraq
Posted on: Friday, March 9, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq Release Event On March 6, 2007, MADRE released Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq, a groundbreaking report on the incidence,...
Iraq's Other War: Violence against Women Under US Occupation
Posted on: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
A MADRE Opinion Piece March 7, 2007 Last week, Houzan Mahmoud* opened her e-mail and found a message from Ansar al-Islam, a notoriously brutal Sunni jihadist group. The message read simply, "we will kill you by the middle of...
Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq
Posted on: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
MADRE has released a groundbreaking report on the incidence, causes, and legalization of gender-based violence in Iraq since the US-led invasion. Amidst the chaos and violence of US-occupied Iraq, women—in particular those who are perceived to pose a challenge to...
MADRE Releases Report on Gender-Based Violence in Iraq
Posted on: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
March 6, 2007—New York—MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, announces the publication of a groundbreaking report on the incidence, causes, and legalization of gender-based violence in Iraq since the US-led invasion. The report, Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence...
MEDIA ADVISORY: Press Conference and Panel Discussion on March 6, 2007
Posted on: Friday, March 2, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq Report Release: Press Conference and Panel Discussion The following event has been organized as part of the 51st United Nations Commission on the Status of...
MADRE Partner Condemned to Death by Jihadist Group
Posted on: Monday, February 26, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
On February 26, 2007, Houzan Mahmoud, an international representative of MADRE's sister organization, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, received an e-mail signed by Ansar al-Islam, the notoriously brutal jihadist group based in Kurdistan/Iraq. ...
Iraqi Police Commit Rape; Armed, Trained, and Funded by the US
Posted on: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
A version of this article was published by TomPaine.com The international news media is flooded with images of a woman in a pink headscarf recounting a shattering experience of rape by members of the Iraqi National Police. Most of the...
Human Rights Day 2006: MADRE's Partners Confront Violence against Women and Girls
Posted on: Sunday, December 10, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Kenya, Haiti, Colombia
December 10, 2006—New York—On Human Rights Day, and at the close of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, emphasizes the imperative to combat violence against women and girls worldwide. In partnership...
Abstaining from Greed and Dogma: The AIDS Policy We Should Call for in 2007
Posted on: Friday, December 1, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Africa
December 1, 2006—World AIDS Day A whole generation into the AIDS pandemic, we now have significant (though still insufficient) knowledge of how to combat the disease. But while the world's collective understanding is gradually advancing, US AIDS policy remains...
Nicaraguan Assembly Passes Therapeutic Abortion Ban
Posted on: Thursday, October 26, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean
October 26, 2006—New York—The Nicaraguan National Assembly voted (52-0) today to outlaw therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua. While abortion in most cases in Nicaragua is already illegal, for over 100 years, Nicaragua's penal code has...
Sexual Rights are Human Rights
Posted on: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights
A MADRE Position Paper MADRE understands that sexual rights—including the right to exercise and express sexuality freely and safely; be protected from sexual violence and discrimination; be in charge of decisions about one’s own body; have access to information...
Reproductive Choice and Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Reproductive Rights
A MADRE Position Paper If a woman cannot choose whether, when and with whom to have children, her other life choices—if or when to marry, where to live, and what kind of work to pursue—are limited. In fact, reproductive...
Patent Rights Over Human Rights: African Women and US AIDS Policy
Posted on: Thursday, April 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
A MADRE Position Paper Thanks largely to the work of African public-health and social-justice advocates, growing numbers of people around the world know that sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of the AIDS pandemic:...
"Honor Crimes"
Posted on: Monday, March 20, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
A MADRE Position Paper Human rights abuses committed against women—most often by male relatives—in the name of "family honor" are called "honor crimes." They include battery, torture, mutilation, rape, forced marriage, imprisonment within the home, and even murder. These...
Violence Against Women in Latin America
Posted on: Friday, January 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Guatemala, Colombia
A MADRE Position Paper Violence against women in Latin America reflects global trends, mediated by histories and conditions specific to the region. These include colonization, war, migration, and neoliberalism. As in other regions, gender-based violence was integral to the...
Cuba
Posted on: Thursday, April 28, 2005
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Cuba, Latin America and Caribbean
A MADRE Position Paper Proponents of neoliberal economics routinely claim that the only way to improve healthcare in poor countries is through free trade, privatization, and corporate deregulation. Yet Cuba demonstrates that high standards of health and healthcare are attainable...
Violence against Women: An Integrated Human Rights Approach
Posted on: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Women's Health
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an annual global campaign that begins on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The 16 days continue through World AIDS Day (December 1), and end...
MADRE Representative to Human Rights Commission Murdered
Posted on: Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Africa, Sierra Leone
October 6, 2004Dear Friends,This week, our friend and partner, Fannyann Eddy was murdered. Fannyann was the head of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association (SLLAGA). The murderers broke into the SLLAGA office late at night while Fannyann was working,...
Women's Health in a Sick World
Posted on: Monday, September 1, 2003
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa
Mary is a 35 year-old woman living in Rwanda. During the 1994 genocide, she was raped and her husband and oldest child were killed. Banished by her community for bearing the stigma of rape, Mary and her three remaining children...
A MADRE Interview with Noam Chomsky
Posted on: Wednesday, August 1, 2001
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Latin America and Caribbean
MADRE's Communications Director, Yifat Susskind, interviews Noam Chomsky about the World Conference Against Racism, US policy in Colombia, Bush's militarization of outer space and more.August 2001
MADRE: What do you see as the significance of the UN World Conference Against Racism...
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