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Articles with keyword "Womens Health"
Pre-Natal Vitamins for 1,000 Nicaraguan Women
Posted on: Monday, February 25, 2013
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, Women's Health, Helping Hands
With your support, 1,000 women in Nicaragua received their full supply of pre-natal vitamins.
Health Care for Hundreds of Guatemalan Women
Posted on: Thursday, January 31, 2013
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Women's Health
Our partners at the Women Workers Committee recently held a health fair for women and their families in the neighborhood of Barcenas, just outside of Guatemala City. Women in this poor community have precious few opportunities to access health services—that’s why...
MADRE Statement on the 2012 US Elections
Posted on: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Keywords: US Foreign Policy, Reproductive Rights, Climate Change, Economic Justice, Women's Health
Yesterday’s US presidential election and confirmation of a second term for President Obama marked a series of unprecedented landmarks for human rights and progressive values. With President Obama’s defeat of Governor Mitt Romney, millions of US voters repudiated an extreme version...
Congratulations to Rose Cunningham on her Women's World Summit Foundation's Prize!
Posted on: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin American and Caribbean, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Indigenous Rights, Women Human Rights Defenders
Dear Rose, We would like to extend our most heartfelt congratulations to you on being awarded the Women's World Summit Foundation's Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life! This award marks an important stride in generating visibility to the powerful work you are...
Send Messages of Hope for Cuba and Palestine
Posted on: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Keywords: Cuba, Palestine, Middle East, Latin America and Caribbean, Women's Health
Click here for a chance to have your voice heard by our sisters in Cuba and Palestine.
Benefits of Midwifery in Afghanistan
Posted on: Monday, July 9, 2012
Keywords: Afghanistan, Middle East, Women's Health, Economic Justice, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE is working with a network of brave midwives who dare to stand up against violence and for women's health.
Giti's Story - Your MADRE Support in Action
Posted on: Monday, July 9, 2012
Keywords: Afghanistan, Middle East, Women's Health, Economic Justice, Combating Violence Against Women
Afghan midwives are providing escape to women facing life-threatening violence.
Week of Twitter Action on Afghanistan
Posted on: Monday, July 2, 2012
Keywords: Afghanistan, Middle East, Women's Health, Economic Justice, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE is partnering with CODEPINK on a week of Twitter Action around the Second International Afghanistan Conference.
The ACA Ruling: Let's Remember That Health Care is a Human Right
Posted on: Friday, June 29, 2012
Keywords: Women's Health
This post originally appeared on RHRealityCheck. Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court announced its ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Now widely known as "Obamacare," the act was signed into law two years ago,...
Take Action: Say no to an abortion ban in Turkey
Posted on: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Keywords: Turkey, Reproductive Rights, Women's Health
Take action and stand up for women's reproductive rights worldwide.
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.
Mothers Need More than Just One Day
Posted on: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Keywords: Reproductive Rights, Mother's Day, Human Rights Advocacy, Women's Health, Economic Justice
This Mother's Day, MADRE is envisioning a world where mothers are appreciated all year long.
Cholera Rages in Haiti: Help Us Respond
Posted on: Monday, April 2, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Women's Health
In Haiti, a cholera epidemic is devastating communities.
Midwives for Peace: A New Ultrasound Machine for Palestinian Midwives!
Posted on: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Keywords: Palestine, Middle East, Women's Health, Peace Building
An update from MADRE's partner organization, Midwives for Peace.
Many Voices: Combining International Human Rights Advocacy and Grassroots Activism to End Sexual Violence in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women, Women's Health
On January 12, 2010, less than one minute of violent shaking took over 200,000 lives in Haiti and rendered more than one million more homeless. The reverberations of the earthquake are still being felt.
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
Midwives for Peace: Empowering Birth Experiences Last a Lifetime
Posted on: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Keywords: Palestine, Middle East, Women's Health, Peace Building
An update from MADRE's partner organization Midwives for Peace.
Emergency & Disaster Relief Fund: Flooding in Central America
Posted on: Friday, October 28, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Latin America, Women's Health
MADRE's sister organizations in Nicaragua and Guatemala are reeling from the flooding that has swept through Central America. They are mobilizing to save lives in their communities—and you can help.The flooding, triggered by relentless torrential rain, has killed...
Despite Barriers, Palestinian and Israeli Midwives Join to Defend Women's Health
Posted on: Monday, July 25, 2011
Keywords: Palestine, Middle East, Women's Health, Peace Building, Reproductive Rights
Palestinian and Israeli midwives refuse to be enemies.
MADRE Members Supply Anti-Cholera Kits for Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Women's Health
Your support is already helping Haitians to survive regular, torrential rains.
Project Update: Sharing Midwifery Skills to Build Peace
Posted on: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Keywords: Palestine, Middle East, Peace Building, Reproductive Rights, Women's Health
MADRE's sister organization Midwives for Peace is expanding their work of ensuring safe deliveries in the West Bank.
Pakistan Update: Spotlight On Women-Specific Flood Relief
Posted on: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Keywords: Pakistan, Asia, Emergency Relief, Women's Health
MADRE's ally in Pakistan, Shirkat Gah was one of the first agencies on the scene in many of the worst-hit areas. Mobile medical clinics and food distribution centers have been established, and now Shirkat Gah is focusing on women.
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.
COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit a Success
Posted on: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Keywords: Event, Women's Health
Below is an update from Circle of Health International (COHI) about their First Annual Women's Health Summit in June. MADRE Policy & Communications Director Yifat Susskind spoke at the event (pictured below on the left-hand side).1st Summit Success!COHI’s First Annual...
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...
Culture Alone Fails to Account for Female Genital Mutilation
Posted on: Sunday, June 20, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Iraq, Middle East
The report by Human Rights Watch on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan reveals the troubling reality facing women and girls compelled to undergo the procedure. Human Rights Watch references specifically the failure of the Kurdistan Regional Government to take...
Statement at the Human Rights Council
Posted on: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Keywords: UN, Human Rights Advocacy, Nicaragua, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
On June 9, 2010, MADRE lent a hand to Nicaraguan women's rights activist Azahalea Solis Roman, who testified before the UN Human Rights Council against her country's ban on therapeutic abortions. Her testimony is below. 1.- Introduction The report to...
MADRE Fights for Reproductive Choice at the UN Human Rights Council
Posted on: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Keywords: UN, Human Rights Advocacy, Nicaragua, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
On June 9, 2010, MADRE lent a hand to Nicaraguan women's rights activist Azahalea Solis Roman, who testified before the UN Human Rights Council against her country's ban on therapeutic abortions. About the BanIn 2006, Nicaragua's National Assembly voted to...
Event: COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit
Posted on: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Event
MADRE's Policy & Communications Director, Yifat Susskind, will be speaking at COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit on June 4, 2010 in Boston. See the details below. Bridges: Women’s Health Care as an Agent of Change How does women’s health status...
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...
Ending the Global Gag Rule Permanently
Posted on: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, US Foreign Policy
Last week, MADRE joined hundreds of organizations from the US and around the world in calling on Representative Nita Lowey and Senator Patrick Leahy to take action to prohibit the future imposition of the dangerous Global Gag Rule on health...
Conversation with Haitian Partner: Women's Clinic Providing Ongoing Treatment for Earthquake Survivors
Posted on: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Lise Marie Déjean, director SOFA, a MADRE sister organization in Haiti.MADRE is working with SOFA, a national Haitian women's organization, to provide medical services to earthquake survivors. SOFA and MADRE partnered...
Making Health a Priority Around the World
Posted on: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Keywords: Womens Health
April 7 is World Health Day. Health is not only the absence of disease or infirmity, but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being. The strongest determinants of health are the social, political and economic forces in our...
Determining Long-Term Health Care Needs for Women in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
MADRE is continuing to partner with Circle of Health International (COHI) to support women's health volunteer teams in Fonds Parisien, Haiti.The teams are working to build and maintain a stable, sustainable response to women's health needs in the aftermath of...
Haiti: Women's Health Delegation Continues to Provide Support to Haitian Clinic
Posted on: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
The women's health delegation is still in Haiti. New volunteers arrived at the end of February, relieving members of the volunteer team who had arrived immediately following the earthquake. The maternity ward has been moved to a larger part of...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights requires the Nicaraguan Government to adopt urgent measures to save the life of Amalia*
Posted on: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Keywords: Reproductive Rights, Women's Health, Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean
This press release from Women's Link Worldwide refers to Nicaragua's denial of a therapeutic abortion for Amalia*, a 27-year-old cancer patient. Bogotá, March 1, 2010 – On February 18, 2010, a group of Nicaraguan and international organizations, specifically, the Nicaraguan...
Call on Nicaragua to Allow Cancer Patient a Therapeutic Abortion
Posted on: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Keywords: Reproductive Rights, Women's Health, Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean
Since October 2006, women in Nicaragua have been denied the right to an abortion, even in cases where pregnancy puts a woman's life at risk.Amelia, a 27-year-old Nicaraguan woman and the mother of a 10-year-old child, has cancer. Despite the...
Providing Tents for an Orphanage and a Women's Health Clinic in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
MADRE is working with the Feminist Solidarity Camp (a international network of women's rights organizations) to distribute supplies to women, children and families in Haiti.In Carrefour, a poor, mostly residential district in the greater metropolitain area of Port-au-Prince, our team...
Women's Health Volunteer Teams Distributing Supplies
Posted on: Friday, February 19, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
The women's health volunteer teams are still on the ground in Haiti, and the team in the clinic is seeing about 50 patients daily. The teams have been training local clinicians to ensure they are prepared to respond to needs...
Palestinian and Israeli midwives come together for professional development
Posted on: Friday, February 19, 2010
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
MADRE's partners in Palestine, Midwives for Peace, hosted their first co-existence meeting of 2010 earlier this week. Midwives and health practitioners from both Palestine and Israel gathered for a professional development meeting as well as to share personal stories about...
Women's Health Delegation Working to Provide Pregnant Haitian Women with Critical Support
Posted on: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
Several teams of MADRE-supported health workers are still on the ground in Haiti. Two new volunteers arrived yesterday. The medical volunteers are working out of a local clinic and treating 350 patients each day. The women's health teams are seeing...
MADRE Partner Reports on the State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Posted on: Sunday, January 24, 2010
Keywords: UN, Indigenous Rights, Women's Health
Long-time MADRE partner Myrna Cunningham wrote a chapter on the current health situation of Indigenous Peoples for the United Nations report "State of the World's Indigenous Peoples."From the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:"Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity's...
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...
Shipment of Sewing and Medical Supplies for Nicaragua
Posted on: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America & Caribbean, Economic Justice, Women's Health, Helping Hands
Fabric, sewing machines, needles and thread donated by MADRE members filled over 40 boxes for a shipment to MADRE's partner, the Wangki Tangni Women's Sewing Collective in Nicaragua. Because of the amazing support from donors, we were also able to...
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...
Commemorating World AIDS Day
Posted on: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, AIDS, US Foreign Policy
Today is World AIDS Day - a good time to remember that AIDS continues to ravage much of the world and that women are disproportionately affected as response to this pandemic flounders. AIDS Around the WorldHIV is the leading cause...
Childbirth under Occupation: A Conversation between Yifat Susskind and a Palestinian Midwife
Posted on: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
In the West Bank, Palestinian women in labor are routinely denied access to necessary medical care by Israeli military checkpoints and roadblocks. MADRE partners with a group of Palestinian and Israeli midwives to ensure that skilled, well-equipped midwives are available...
Palestine: Meeting with Palestinian and Israeli Midwives, Midwives for Peace - Project Update
Posted on: Thursday, August 27, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
Midwives for Peace, MADRE's newest sister organization in Palestine, recently organized two meetings between Israeli and Palestinian midwives: one in Tel Aviv, Israel and the other in Ramallah, Palestine. At the meetings, Palestinian and Israeli midwives got to know each...
Guatemala: Photos from the Helping Hands Oral Hygiene Project
Posted on: Monday, August 24, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Helping Hands, Women's Health
Thanks to MADRE members' support, Executive Director Vivian Stromberg was able to deliver toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, mouthwash and learning kits to children in the Barcenas community during her recent worktrip to Guatemala.The Women Workers' Committee, MADRE's partner in Barcenas, was...
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,...
Remembering Dr. Tiller by Supporting Reproductive Rights
Posted on: Monday, June 1, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
All of us at MADRE join our members and the many organizations and individuals around the country who have expressed their sadness and anger at the killing of Dr. George Tiller.We have lost a passionate champion of women's human rights--and...
UN Committee against Torture Calls for an End to Nicaragua's Life-Threatening Abortion Ban
Posted on: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Keywords: Reproductive Rights, Women's Health, Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, UN
In a precedent-setting move, the United Nations Committee against Torture has called for Nicaragua to modify its abortion laws. Since October 2006, Nicaragua has eliminated all exceptions to a ban on abortions, including procedures to save the life of the...
Un-Gagging Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
By Yifat Susskind, MADRE Communications Director Of the many crises President Barack Obama faces, few are more urgent than preventing the needless deaths of half a million people this year. This is the number of women who die annually from...
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...
President Obama Eliminates Major Obstacle to Women's Health
Posted on: Friday, January 23, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health
Today, with President Obama's signature of an executive order to repeal the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule, a major global barrier to access to crucial women's health services is to be removed. MADRE applauds President...
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...
Yes We Did but We're Not Done
Posted on: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Peace Building, Women's Health
MADRE and our sister organizations join millions in the US and around the world in congratulating Barack and Michelle Obama and all who helped bring about last night’s historic victory. This election is of...
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...
Neoliberal Jihadist at the World Bank
Posted on: Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Global Food Crisis, Women's Health, Peace Building
This spring, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was forced to resign because of a scandal. Of course, the real scandal is the World Bank's flagrant violation of its own mission. Charged with fighting global poverty, the Bank has consistently pursued...
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...
It's Not Just an Abortion Ban: The Christian Right's Global Agenda
Posted on: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
After the initial shock of the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding President Bush's abortion ban, it's time to acknowledge the full reality of the decision. According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists—which represents 90 percent of OB/GYNs in...
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...
The UN Millennium Development Goals: Obstacles and Opportunities
Posted on: Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Women's Health
A MADRE Position paper Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerAchieve universal primary educationPromote gender equality and empower womenReduce child mortalityImprove maternal healthCombat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseasesEnsure environmental sustainabilityDevelop a global partnership for development World Summit...
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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