MADRE Articles
Articles with keyword "Afghanistan"
"Afghan Good Enough" Isn't Good Enough
Posted on: Monday, May 21, 2012
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, US Foreign Policy, Combating Violence Against Women
It's not enough for NATO to simply lower expectations and leave Afghans to clean up the mess.
US No Help to Afghan Rape Survivors
Posted on: Monday, December 5, 2011
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, US Foreign Policy, Combating Violence Against Women
Standing with Afghan rape survivors does not mean supporting US military occupation.
Pressing Reset on the Afghanistan Debate: Toward Ending the War and Upholding Women's Rights
Posted on: Friday, February 18, 2011
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, Combatting Violence Against Women
This week, policy circles have been buzzing with the news of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s appointment of Marc Grossman, a career diplomat and former US Ambassador to Turkey, as the new special envoy to Afghanistan and...
Six Alternatives to a Troop Surge in Afghanistan
Posted on: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Peace Building, US Foreign Policy
Tonight, President Obama will tell us that he must expand the war on Afghanistan in order to end it. He will say that another troop surge is necessary to prevent al-Qaeda from using Afghanistan as a base. What he won’t...
Afghan Democracy is Flat-lining--And Only Women Can Save It
Posted on: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan
By the time the first ballot is cast in Afghanistan's August 20 election, hopes for a democratic outcome will already be dead. The Obama Administration is billing Afghanistan's second Parliamentary election in 30 years as a milestone in that country's...
Afghan Women Confront Human Rights Crisis
Posted on: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan, Peace Building
To help shore up domestic support for its war in Afghanistan, the Bush Administration spoke often of the need to free Afghan women from the Taliban. Indeed, that regime robbed women of even a minimal degree of self-determination, violating basic...
Afghan Women Speak Out
Posted on: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Keywords: Afghanistan
Debate over military policy in Afghanistan is a constant feature of US news these days. We've heard a lot from generals, politicians, and pundits, but very little from Afghans themselves. As the most impoverished and discriminated-against sector of Afghan society,...
US Air Strikes in Afghanistan Kill 90 Civilians
Posted on: Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Keywords: Peace Building, Afghanistan, Middle East
Last week, in one of the most devastating attacks since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, US air strikes took the lives of at least 90 civilians—including 60 children. These numbers have been verified by a team of UN...
Justice Not Vengeance: A MADRE Tool Kit in Response to the September 11 Attacks and the US War Against Afghanistan
Posted on: Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, US Foreign Policy
The attacks of September 11 in New York and Washington, D.C. have given people in the US a terrible but important insight into the experiences of so many of our sisters and their families around the world, who regularly feel...
