Talking Points
Articles with keyword "Peace Building"
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 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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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)
