Talking Points
Sex Workers' Rights Are Human Rights
Posted on: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights, US Foreign Policy, Human Rights Advocacy
Like all people, sex workers are protected under international human rights standards.
The Myth of the Green Bank: Climate Justice, Gender Justice and the World Bank: MADRE Talking Points
Posted on: Monday, November 28, 2011
Keywords: Environmental Justice, Africa, UN, Climate Change
To create the effective climate policies we all need, the World Bank must listen to the women who are most affected by the climate crisis.
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...
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
Report Exposes "Survival Sex Trade" in Post-Earthquake Haiti (Inter Press Service, January 13, 2012)
Sexual violence in Haiti's displacement camps still 'rampant' says new report (Women News Network, January 12, 2012)
Survivor Tells Her Story of Rape in a Haitian Tent Camp (PBS NewsHour, January 12, 2012)
Haiti Earthquake 2 Years Later: Rape Survivors Support Abused Women In Displacement Camps (The Huffington Post, January 12, 2012)
2011's Big Wins - Brought to You by Women (Common Dreams, December 27, 2011)
