Press Releases
Articles with keyword "Colombia"
No to US Troops in Colombia
Posted on: Friday, April 13, 2012
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean, US Foreign Policy
Read a press release from our friends at La Ruta Pacifica denouncing US troop presence in Colombia.
Activist and Member of the League of Displaced Women in Colombia is Assassinated
Posted on: Friday, August 5, 2011
Keywords: colombia, latin america and carribean, activist
MADRE mourns the death of Keila Esther Berrio Almanza.
MADRE Presents Report to UN Human Rights Committee on the Situation in Colombia
Posted on: Thursday, July 15, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America and the Caribbean, UN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMADRE: Rights, Resources, and Results for Women WorldwideContact: Diana Duarte, Media Coordinator (New York): (212) 627-0444; email: media@madre.orgLisa Davis, Human Rights Advocacy Director (Geneva): ldavis@madre.org
MADRE Presents Report to...
Take Action: Colombian Organizations Receiving Death Threats Again
Posted on: Monday, June 21, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy, Indigenous Rights, Latin America and the Caribbean
The Colombian government has not taken the necessary measures to investigate and end the hostility towards Afro-descendants, indigenous people and women leaders, who are solely defending their human rights. Take action for their human rights.
Dia de la MADRE: In Celebration of Mothers around the Globe
Posted on: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Keywords: Sudan, Iraq, Colombia, Peace Building, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East
This piece was published in the May issue of MotherVerse Magazine. Twenty-five years ago, in the summer of 1983, a partnership was forged between a group of Nicaraguan women and a group of women in the United States. At...
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...
War on Terror or War on Women?
Posted on: Thursday, January 1, 2004
Keywords: Latin America and Caribbean, Food Sovereignty, Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico
War on Terror or War on Women?The View from Latin AmericaBy Yifat SusskindAssociate Director, MADRE Most Americans judge George Bush’s fixation on national security to be an appropriate response to the atrocities of September 11, 2001. But for millions of...
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Stoking Fire: Addressing the Specific Needs of Female Syrian Refugees (RH Reality Check, May 17, 2013)
An Open Letter to the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala (Common Dreams, May 15, 2013)
Mothers Fight Back (RH Reality Check, May 9, 2013)
How Not to End the War in Syria (Common Dreams, May 9, 2013)
Conditions in Jordan Syrian refugee camp are worse for women (Women's News Network, April 19, 2013)
