Talking Points
MADRE Talking Points: Using International Law to Wage Peace in Colombia
Posted on: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean
In recent decades, human rights advocates have won passage of a system of international human rights treaties, helping to address a wide range of social justice concerns. More and more, local activists are devising ways to use these international...
MADRE Talking Points: The Role of the US in Colombia's Conflict
Posted on: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean
The Conflict in a Nutshell For over 40 years, Colombians have endured an armed conflict over their country’s highly concentrated sources of natural wealth, especially land. In the...
MADRE Talking Points on Women in Afghanistan: Confronting the Legacy of US-Supported Extremism
Posted on: Thursday, April 2, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Peace Building, US Foreign Policy
Background on Afghan Women’s ActivismMost people in the US assume that Taliban-style extremism is deeply ingrained in Afghan history and culture. In fact, it’s a recent imposition and a product of US intervention. Since the mid-1800s, Afghan governments have slowly...
MADRE Talking Points: Seven Reasons to Oppose a Troop Surge in Afghanistan
Posted on: Thursday, April 2, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Peace Building
We know that elements in the military and Congress exerted great pressure on President Obama to ratchet up the war on Afghanistan. To achieve a more rational and peaceful outcome, we need to exert a counter-pressure. MADRE calls on the...
MADRE Talking Points on Iraq: Six Years of "Liberation" and an Epidemic of Violence Against Women
Posted on: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Peace Building
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 as a way to...
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MADRE Makes News
Obama Admin Claims End to Combat Operations in Iraq, But Iraqis See Same War Under a Different Name (Democracy Now!, August 20, 2010)
Native People Demand Autonomy Over Territory (IPS News, August 6, 2010)
The Predictable Disaster: Post Earthquake, Widespread Rape in Haiti Goes Unaddressed (RH Reality Check, July 2, 2010)
Sexual Assaults Add to Miseries of Haiti's Ruins (New York Times, June 23, 2010)
Culture alone fails to account for female genital mutilation (Jurist: Hotline Buzz, June 20, 2010)
