MADRE Articles
Articles with keyword "Africa"
Don't Put Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa
Posted on: Monday, May 21, 2012
Keywords: Africa, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Food Sovereignty
We're never going to end hunger in Africa without upholding the rights of women farmers.
MADRE Celebrates International Workers' Day
Posted on: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Keywords: Human Rights Advocacy, Economic Justice, Sudan, Guatemala, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean
Today, we recognize the crucial work women do around the world--both inside the home and out.
Mothers Need More than One Day
Posted on: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Keywords: Mother's Day, Sudan, Guatemala, Palestine, Kenya, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East, Reproductive Rights
This Mother's Day, MADRE asks: what if we appreciated mothers all year long?
Women Rally to Protect Mother Earth
Posted on: Sunday, April 22, 2012
Keywords: Environmental Justice, Economic Justice, Nicaragua, Sudan, Kenya, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Climate Change
This Earth Day, let's cultivate the solutions that women are developing in communities worldwide.
Congratulations to Zenab for Women in Development!
Posted on: Monday, April 2, 2012
Keywords: Sudan, Africa, Environmental Justice, Economic Justice
Our Sudanese partner organization received two prestigious awards!
From Congo to Colombia: Extending the International Criminal Court's Landmark Child Soldiers Verdict
Posted on: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa
Today, the International Criminal Court issued its first ever verdict.
2011's Big Wins - Brought to You by Women
Posted on: Thursday, December 29, 2011
Keywords: Peace Building, Middle East, Africa, UN, Human Rights Advocacy, Economic Justice
From New York City to Egypt to South Sudan, 2011 was a year of transformations.
Women in Egypt Come Together to Protest Violent Attacks
Posted on: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Keywords: Middle East, Africa, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Women Human Rights Defenders
Women are being beaten and sexually assaulted for protesting to demand an end to military rule. But they're not stepping down.
The 99% Is Bigger Than You Think
Posted on: Monday, October 31, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Kenya, Economic Justice, US Foreign Policy
The protesters on Wall Street know what they want. It's the same thing that the rest of the global 99% wants...
Sudanese Women Farmers Point the Way toward Food Security Worldwide: "As mothers and as farmers, the future depends on us."
Posted on: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change, Sudan, Environmental Justice
It's hard to imagine any bright spots in the midst of the famine that has gripped the Horn of Africa this summer.
Local Women's Organizations in Kenya and Sudan Connect Through MADRE (Video)
Posted on: Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change, Sudan, Environmental Justice
Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji of Womankind Kenya Receives a Gift from Zenab for Women in Development.
East Africa's Unnatural Disaster
Posted on: Friday, September 2, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change
This famine is more than just a "natural" disaster. Its roots are man-made.
Underreported and Unchecked: Sexual Violence against Somali Refugee Women
Posted on: Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Combating Violence Against Women
Amal left her village in Somalia when she realized that there was nothing left there for her.
The Avoidable Famine: Emergency Response Must Address Root Causes of Environmental Disasters
Posted on: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change
This famine could have been avoided. The starvation is the result of a perfect storm of climate change, political chaos and bad economic policies.
MADRE Partner Rose Cunningham Leads Trainings on Indigenous Women's Human Rights in Kenya
Posted on: Thursday, August 18, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Kenya, Human Rights Advocacy
Over this past week, MADRE staff have been in Kenya visiting our sister organizations...
MADRE Meets With Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji of Womankind Kenya (Video)
Posted on: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change
Hubbie discusses the various challenges women and their families face as they flee the famine in Somalia.
Bringing Together Women Leaders in Kenya (Video)
Posted on: Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Keywords: Kenya, Africa, Women Human Rights Defenders, Water Rights, Indigenous Rights
One of the important roles that MADRE plays is to connect the women leaders of our sister organizations.
Water and Food Still Urgently Needed; Executive Director Yifat Susskind Shares an Update from Kenya
Posted on: Monday, August 15, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya
This week, MADRE staff are in Kenya visiting our sister organizations
Women Pave the Path toward a Sustainable Future
Posted on: Sunday, July 31, 2011
Keywords: Environmental Justice, Sudan, Africa, Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, Kenya
It is easy to feel hopeless about the fate of our planet when we think about the inter-related crises of resource exploitation, industrial agriculture, pollution, deforestation, fossil fuel consumption and more.
A New Era for Women in Sudan: A Q&A with Yifat Susskind and Fatima Ahmed
Posted on: Monday, July 25, 2011
Keywords: Sudan, Africa, Peace Building
Earlier this month, South Sudan became the world’s newest country. To gather information about this historic occasion for MADRE members, and about what it means for women and their communities, MADRE’s Executive Director Yifat Susskind spoke with...
Don't Let NATO Chill the Arab Spring
Posted on: Monday, April 11, 2011
Keywords: Middle East, Africa, US Policy
MADRE stands with the people of Libya fighting for democracy and an end to repressive government.
US Abandons Principle on Child Soldiers
Posted on: Monday, November 1, 2010
Keywords: Colombia, Child Soldiers, Peace Building, Africa
MADRE letter to the editor, originally printed in the Washington Post on 10/31.
Buying Local Halfway Across the Globe
Posted on: Monday, October 11, 2010
Keywords: Sudan, Africa, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
As individuals, Americans are generous, often donating in response to crises abroad even while struggling to make ends meet at home. We tend to assume that our government’s foreign aid is similarly altruistic. But is it?...
Opposition to ICC Indictment
Posted on: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Keywords: Peace Building, Sudan, Africa
The following countries are members of institutions that have condemned the ICC indictment of Sudanese President Bashir. The African Union: (*also in Arab League) *Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Repulic Chad Comoros...
The International Criminal Court Targets Sudan's President: Is it Justice or Regime Change?
Posted on: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Keywords: Peace Building, Sudan, Africa
On July 14, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) moved to indict Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Darfur. The move has sharply divided the international community;...
Water for All
Posted on: Saturday, May 3, 2008
Keywords: Kenya, Africa, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Water Rights
Having an ample supply of safe water is something most of us don’t think much about. Turning on the kitchen tap or running a bath is usually an effortless decision. Yet, when we flush the toilet, we use as much...
Event: What are Sexual Rights?
Posted on: Monday, March 17, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Sexual Rights
DAWN – Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era International Council on Human Rights Policy MADRE and The Sexual Rights Initiative (i) invite you to a parallel event: WHAT ARE SEXUAL RIGHTS? A DIALOGUE, INVOLVING WOMEN...
Bush's Legacy vs. African Women's Lives
Posted on: Friday, February 22, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Africa
President Bush headed home on Thursday from his five-day, five-country tour of Africa. Not since Thanksgiving 2003, when he showed up at the Baghdad Airport with a fake turkey for US troops have we seen such saccharine Presidential photo ops....
Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya
Posted on: Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Kenya, Africa
From day-one of the crisis that has gripped Kenya this year, much of the mainstream media has been quick to label the violence "tribal warfare," while the top US envoy to Africa called the Kenyan clashes "ethnic cleansing." The problem...
What's Wrong with the Word "Tribe"?
Posted on: Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Africa
In much of the world, discussions of African affairs are tainted by racist assumptions and stereotypes. Using the term “tribe” to describe African ethnic groups sometimes reflects this trend. The following analysis is excerpted from “Talking about Tribe,” an...
New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change
Posted on: Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Climate Change
With the dramatic wrap-up of the UN climate change conference in Bali, 2007 is drawing to a close. Now we have seven short years—until 2015—to reverse the rise of greenhouse gas emissions and avoid a global temperature increase of two...
What is Biodiversity?
Posted on: Saturday, December 8, 2007
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Climate Change
Biodiversity (short for biological diversity) refers to the variety and patterns of life on Earth, encompassing everything from small genetic differences within and between species to the range of ecosystems—including forests, wetlands, deserts, mountains, lakes, oceans, and agricultural landscapes—that form...
Deforestation, Climate Change, and Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Saturday, December 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Climate Change
Forests are finite natural resources that provide climate stability, food, water, fuel, medicine, building material and cultural contexts that sustain life as we know it. By disabling the carbon-cycling capacity of the Earth, deforestation threatens the survival both of people...
An Open Letter from Fatima Ahmed, President of Zenab
Posted on: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
An Open Letter to: UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon UN General Assembly President, H.E., Dr. Srgjan Kerim Member States Representatives of the UN General Assembly Directors of UN Agencies Dear colleagues and friends from around...
Violence Against Women: Sixteen Ways Women are Fighting Back
Posted on: Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Middle East
On November 25, 2007, advocates around the world for women's human rights commemorated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and simultaneously launched sixteen days of action. These sixteen days—culminating on December 10, Human Rights Day—mark...
Program Highlights: Summer 2007
Posted on: Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa
MADRE Speaks: Spring/Summer 2007 Program Highlights KENYA Indigenous Information Network With MADRE's support, the women of our sister organization, the Indigenous Information Network (IIN), held a three-day celebration and human rights training for women. The event attracted more than...
Summer 2007: From the Executive Director
Posted on: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa
MADRE Speaks:Spring/Summer 2007 Letter from the Executive Director, Vivian Stromberg Dear Friends, In April, I visited the communities of our sister organizations on the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, home to most of the country's...
Violence against Indigenous Women
Posted on: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa, Indigenous Rights
by Mónica Alemán April 25, 2007 We as Indigenous women have always worked to combat rape and other forms of sexual violence through strategies that recognize that their rights as women and as Indigenous Peoples are inextricably...
US in Africa: Partnership or Pillage?
Posted on: Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Africa
Spring 2000 Alarming reports about the specter of famine in the Horn of Africa have recently resurfaced in the media. The culprit, we are told, is insufficient rainfall. But while a drought might ruin harvests, mass starvation cannot be...
Abstaining from Greed and Dogma: The AIDS Policy We Should Call for in 2007
Posted on: Friday, December 1, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Africa
December 1, 2006—World AIDS Day A whole generation into the AIDS pandemic, we now have significant (though still insufficient) knowledge of how to combat the disease. But while the world's collective understanding is gradually advancing, US AIDS policy remains...
MADRE Representative to Human Rights Commission Murdered
Posted on: Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Africa, Sierra Leone
October 6, 2004Dear Friends,This week, our friend and partner, Fannyann Eddy was murdered. Fannyann was the head of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association (SLLAGA). The murderers broke into the SLLAGA office late at night while Fannyann was working,...
Women's Health in a Sick World
Posted on: Monday, September 1, 2003
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Africa
Mary is a 35 year-old woman living in Rwanda. During the 1994 genocide, she was raped and her husband and oldest child were killed. Banished by her community for bearing the stigma of rape, Mary and her three remaining children...
