MADRE Articles
Articles with keyword "Human Rights Advocacy"
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.
Supporting Social Change After Disaster
Posted on: Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Human Rights Advocacy, Emergency Relief
Read our piece on supporting social change that we're sharing at AWID's International Forum.
Demanding Women's Human Rights in Guatemala: At a Glance
Posted on: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Indigenous Rights, UN
Indigenous women, women in prisons and women working in maquilas face widespread abuses in Guatemala.
Virtual Briefing on Sexual Exploitation in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights, Human Rights Advocacy
Listen to a recording to hear the authors discuss their report on sexual exploitation in Haiti and take questions from listeners.
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 US-Colombia Unfair Trade Agreement Revisited: Just Say No!
Posted on: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Keywords: Colombia, Free Trade, South America, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Human Rights Advocacy
Today, Congress is preparing to vote on a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia that was signed—but not ratified— in 2006 by then-Presidents George W. Bush and Alvaro Uribe. Today’s passage of the agreement would end almost five years of negotiations...
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...
Sex Workers' Rights are Human Rights
Posted on: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Keywords: Sexual Rights, Human Rights Advocacy
The Declaration of Human Rights includes the rights to be free from harm, to access adequate health care and housing, and the right to fair employment that pays a living wage. The failure to recognize sex work as labor means...
Women Need Rights, Not Rescue
Posted on: Thursday, September 3, 2009
Keywords: Human Rights Advocacy, US Foreign Policy
This article was co-authored by MADRE's Yifat Susskind and Diana Duarte in response to a series of articles published in the New York Times Magazine entitled Saving the World's Women and published on RH Reality Check. With a tagline like...
Ending Poverty, Promoting Development: MADRE Critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals
Posted on: Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Keywords: UN, Human Rights Advocacy, MDG
In 2000, world leaders representing all 191 countries that belong to the United Nations pledged to achieve these eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Since then, the goals have become the main framework for development policy worldwide. They have...
