MADRE News
February 2007
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...
Sunni and Shiite Youth Demand Peace Through Art
Posted on: Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Keywords: Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
February 7, 2007—New York—This weekend in Baghdad, a brave group of young Sunni and Shiite artists and poets will come together to demand peace and resist the violent sectarianism consuming Iraq. MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, is working...
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The G8's PR Strategy on Rape in Conflict (Women Under Siege, June 18, 2013)
Peace advocates speak out against U.S. military intervention in Syria (Women News Network, June 14, 2013)
Syrie : Fuir les combats armés pour faire face aux violences sexuelles dans les camps de réfugiés (Opinion Internationale, June 5, 2013)
Historic Guatemala Dictator Conviction Thrown Out for Now (AlterNet, May 27, 2013)
Women in post-earthquake Haiti: moving beyond survival (Open Democracy, May 26, 2013)
