Press Releases
Articles with keyword "Iraq"
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.
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.
No More Arrests and Torture of Demonstrators in Iraq: Release Youth Activist Firas Ali
Posted on: Friday, April 15, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Human Rights Advocacy, Peace Building
We just received a statement from Yanar Mohammed, President of our partner in Iraq, condemning the torture of youth activists.
Pro-Democracy Youth Activist in Iraq Tortured and Threatened
Posted on: Monday, March 28, 2011
Keywords: Iraq, Human Rights Advocacy, Middle East
Last week, a youth activist organizing pro-democracy protests in Iraq was kidnapped, detained and tortured...
MEDIA ADVISORY: Quotas in Upcoming Elections in Iraq to Place Women in Local Government Positions
Posted on: Thursday, January 29, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Peace Building
WHAT: On Saturday, January 31, Iraq will hold its first elections since 2005, also marking the first time that provincial councils will guarantee seats for female candidates. As increasing levels of violence in Iraq have jeopardized women’s lives, particularly in...
MADRE supports women at the epicenter of the global food crisis.
Posted on: Thursday, June 5, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Global Food Crisis, Haiti, Guatemala, Sudan, Iraq, Kenya, Nicaragua, Food Sovereignty
We are working to meet immediate needs for food, create local, sustainable solutions to hunger, and demand new economic policies that recognize that food is not a commodity, but a human right. MADRE is working through our Emergency and...
As UN Summit Ends, MADRE Emphasizes Women's Rights as Central to Resolving Global Food Crisis
Posted on: Thursday, June 5, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Global Food Crisis, Guatemala, Haiti, Sudan, Iraq, Emergency Relief, Food Sovereignty
June 5, 2008—New York, NY—Today, as more than 40 world leaders gathered in Rome wrap up a United Nations summit on the global food crisis, MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, emphasizes that small-scale women farmers should be central...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Don't Put Monstanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa (Common Dreams, May 21, 2012)
Mothers Need More than Just One Day (ZNet, May 1, 2012)
We Need to Talk: Guatemala (The Huffington Post, April 30, 2012)
Seeking Justice for Haiti's Rape Victims (CNN, April 27, 2012)
On Earth Day, we need to acknowledge women (The Progressive, April 21, 2012)
