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Mothers Fight Back
Posted on: Thursday, May 9, 2013
Keywords: Middle East, Latin America, Africa
This Sunday is Mother's Day, and like many of you, I will spend it at home with my family. I’m looking forward to the home-made cards and presents from my kids, and maybe the great gift of sleeping in an...
How Not to End the War in Syria
Posted on: Thursday, May 9, 2013
Keywords: Syria, Middle East
As the war engulfing Syria worsens, the Obama Administration must prioritize the needs of civilians and resist the growing pressure for military intervention. Diplomacy and increased humanitarian aid are what’s needed now to alleviate suffering and build peace. Syrians are facing...
10 Years Since the US Invasion of Iraq: An Interactive Timeline
Posted on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East
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A Decade of Occupation for Iraqi Women
Posted on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East
A decade after the US invasion of Iraq, only one of the straw-man arguments for going to war remains standing: “We did it for democracy and women’s rights." And yet we hear the same thing again and again from women in...
"Muslim Rage": So Much Easier Than Thinking
Posted on: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Keywords: Middle East, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, Yemen, US Policy
This piece was originally published in Common Dreams. I know you’re not stupid, but the mainstream media seems to think you are. Why else would Newsweek’s front page feature a picture of an angry man wearing a turban and run the headline,...
Iraq: A War that Doesn't End
Posted on: Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East
Eight months ago, the US officially announced the end of its military engagement in Iraq. Now, it is anxious to abandon its responsibility to the country. Despite claims that the war is coming to a close, the brutal legacies of...
Breaking Barriers: Humanitarian Aid to Palestine and Cuba
Posted on: Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Keywords: Midwives for Peace, Palestine, Cuba, Middle East, LAC, Humanitarian Aid
This post originally appeared in Peace x Peace. By Yifat Susskind “They are among the most marginalized people, suffering at the hands of governments playing political games with their lives. In my travels to Cuba and Palestine, I have seen this firsthand.” *** “Blockade”...
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?
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.
Ending War Means Ending Violence against Women
Posted on: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Iraq, Middle East, Combatting Violence against Women
Rosemary Gonzalez was murdered in 2009, the victim of a war that ended in 1996...
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.
Culture Alone Fails to Account for Female Genital Mutilation
Posted on: Sunday, June 20, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Iraq, Middle East
The report by Human Rights Watch on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan reveals the troubling reality facing women and girls compelled to undergo the procedure. Human Rights Watch references specifically the failure of the Kurdistan Regional Government to take...
Oh, Those "Disappointing" Iraqis
Posted on: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Keywords: Middle East, Iraq
It may be months before we know the final tally of Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections. But one thing is already clear. As The New York Times editorial page put it today, “Beyond the closeness of the race, the new results—disappointingly—show Iraqis once...
After Six Years, Some US troops Will Leave Iraq. But Where Are We Leaving Iraqi Women?
Posted on: Monday, March 16, 2009
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Peace Building, Combating Violence Against Women
If you haven’t thought about the Iraq War as a story of US allies systematically torturing and executing women, you’re not alone. Likewise, if you were under the impression that Iraqi women were somehow better off under their new, US-sponsored...
Questions & Answers about War on Gaza
Posted on: Saturday, January 10, 2009
Keywords: Israel, Palestine, Middle East
Questions & Answers about War on GazaAs Israel’s war on Gaza continues into its 13th day, MADRE responds some of the questions that we’re hearing from MADRE members about the crisis. Q. Doesn’t Israel have a right to defend its...
Israeli Airstrikes Increase Cycle of Violence
Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza
MADRE condemns the latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and the on-going Hamas rocket-fire into Israel. MADRE calls for a halt to all violence against civilians. Both the Hamas rocket attacks and the Israeli airstrikes violate international law and further undermine...
Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood
Posted on: Monday, December 29, 2008
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Gaza
Mustafa Barghouthi, founder of MADRE’s sister organization Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) and current Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, wrote a piece about the situation in Gaza published in the Huffington Post on December 29, 2008. Palestine's Guernica and...
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...
Iraqi Women Say No to US Occupation, No to Islamist Violence: Will US Progressives Stand with Them?
Posted on: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
Since the US bombing of Afghanistan in 2001, the Bush Administration has resurrected the hackneyed colonial notion that its military intervention is intended to save Muslim women from their oppressive societies. As Laura Bush said, “The fight against...
Iraq: Five Years of "Liberation" and an Epidemic of Violence Against Women
Posted on: Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
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...
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...
FOR WOMEN IN IRAQ, THE WAR RAGES ON. YOU CAN HELP.
Posted on: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
Dear Friend of MADRE, I just spoke with Yanar Mohammed, Director of our partner, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), and I knew I needed to write to you immediately. Yanar describes a truly desperate situation...
Who is Killing the Women of Basra?
Posted on: Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
In Basra, Iraq's second largest city, 2008 was ushered in with an announcement of the 2007 death toll of women targeted by Islamist militias. City officials reported on December 31 that 133 women were killed and mutilated last year, their...
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...
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...
"Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week": Conscripting Feminism into the War on Terror
Posted on: Friday, October 26, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
US feminists found themselves in strange company this week. In days of campus activity labeled "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" (IFAW), conservative writer David Horowitz and his fellow travelers issued a call for an end to the oppression of women in Muslim...
Report vs. Reality: What General Petraeus Didn't Say
Posted on: Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
September 11, 2007 Report: The General claimed that the surge has reduced the killing of Iraqi civilians. Reality: No independent assessments support this assertion. In fact, the head of the Congressional Government Accountability Office says his agency has a “strong...
The Murder of Du'a Aswad
Posted on: Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
Recently, a mob of frenzied men beat and stoned to death a 17-year-old girl, Du'a Khalil Aswad, in northern Iraq. She was murdered by relatives and neighbors for falling in love with someone that her community did not approve of,...
US must help end tyranny against Iraqi women
Posted on: Sunday, April 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
The following op-ed was distributed by the Progressive Media Project, and published by the Augusta Chronicle and the Times Union of Albany, NY. Human rights still elude Iraqi women. And the United States must take action to end the abuse...
MADRE Report on Gender-Based Violence in Iraq
Posted on: Friday, March 9, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq Release Event On March 6, 2007, MADRE released Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq, a groundbreaking report on the incidence,...
Iraq's Other War: Violence against Women Under US Occupation
Posted on: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
A MADRE Opinion Piece March 7, 2007 Last week, Houzan Mahmoud* opened her e-mail and found a message from Ansar al-Islam, a notoriously brutal Sunni jihadist group. The message read simply, "we will kill you by the middle of...
Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq
Posted on: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
MADRE has released a groundbreaking report on the incidence, causes, and legalization of gender-based violence in Iraq since the US-led invasion. Amidst the chaos and violence of US-occupied Iraq, women—in particular those who are perceived to pose a challenge to...
MADRE Partner Condemned to Death by Jihadist Group
Posted on: Monday, February 26, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
On February 26, 2007, Houzan Mahmoud, an international representative of MADRE's sister organization, the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, received an e-mail signed by Ansar al-Islam, the notoriously brutal jihadist group based in Kurdistan/Iraq. ...
Iraqi Police Commit Rape; Armed, Trained, and Funded by the US
Posted on: Thursday, February 22, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
A version of this article was published by TomPaine.com The international news media is flooded with images of a woman in a pink headscarf recounting a shattering experience of rape by members of the Iraqi National Police. Most of the...
Beyond the Surge: Demanding an End to Bush's War
Posted on: Thursday, January 11, 2007
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East
By Yifat Susskind, Communications Director Wednesday night, Bush the Decider announced his intention to throw gasoline on the inferno he ignited in Iraq. He will send in another 21,500 US soldiers, who will kill and injure many more Iraqis and...
The Iraq Debate: Looking for a Few Good Principles
Posted on: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Keywords: Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
With debate raging about what the US should do in Iraq, one thing is clear: nobody has a full solution to the horror that the US has unleashed. Yet, this week's release of the Iraq Study Group's (ISG) report offers...
Ongoing Crisis in the Middle East
Posted on: Monday, November 6, 2006
Keywords: Peace Building, Middle East, Palestine, Israel
A MADRE Position Paper The Crisis Since September 2000, Palestinians have been waging their second national uprising (Intifada) in a bid to end Israel’s 38-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In response, Israeli forces have shelled Palestinian...
War on Civilians: A MADRE Guide to the Middle East Crisis
Posted on: Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Keywords: Peace Building, Iraq, Middle East
As the crisis engulfing Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon continues into its second week, MADRE reiterates its call for the protection of civilians in the Middle East. On July 12, MADRE immediately condemned Hezbollah's rocket attacks on civilians in Israel, and...
MADRE Calls for Immediate Halt to Israeli Invasion of Gaza
Posted on: Thursday, July 6, 2006
Keywords: Peace Building, Middle East, Israel, Palestine
MADRE joins the call of Israeli, Palestinian, and international human rights organizations for an immediate end to the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip and for the protection of Palestinian and Israeli civilians. Israel says that its military assault...
"Honor Crimes"
Posted on: Monday, March 20, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Iraq, Middle East
A MADRE Position Paper Human rights abuses committed against women—most often by male relatives—in the name of "family honor" are called "honor crimes." They include battery, torture, mutilation, rape, forced marriage, imprisonment within the home, and even murder. These...
Hamas Takes Over: A MADRE Q & A
Posted on: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Keywords: Peace Building, Middle East, Palestine, Israel
Hamas Takes Over: A MADRE Q & A On January 25, the radical Islamic movement, Hamas, scored a landslide victory in elections held in the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas swept 76 out of 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative...
Misery in the Name of Democracy: The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, December 1, 2005
Keywords: Iraq, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East, Haiti
The Bush Administration is touting Iraq's December 15 election as a giant leap forward for freedom guaranteed to ignite fervor for democracy across the entire Middle East. But closer to home, the Administration has discovered that democracy has created a...
The Reconfigured Occupation: Gaza Disengagement Will Not Ease Suffering for Palestinian Women and Families
Posted on: Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East
In mid-August, Israel is scheduled to begin its "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip, which it has occupied for 38 years. Under the plan, Israeli settlers and soldiers will be removed from Gaza and from four isolated West Bank settlements....
The View from Falluja
Posted on: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East
The View from FallujaNovember 17, 2004From Yanar Mohammed, founder of MADRE’s sister organization, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in IraqNovember 17, 2004Air raids, bombing and all kinds of siege continue over the city, a result of which one fourth of...
One Year Later: Women's Human Rights in "Liberated" Iraq
Posted on: Thursday, April 1, 2004
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East
One Year Later: Women’s Human Rights in “Liberated” IraqBy Yifat Susskind, Associate DirectorSpring 2004“We will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that...
10 Reasons to Oppose US Militarization of Aid and Reconstruction in Iraq
Posted on: Sunday, April 13, 2003
Keywords: Iraq, Middle East, Peace Building
"We will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free." George Bush, televised address, 3/17/03. ...
BUSH'S WAR: THE FALL-OUT ON WOMEN AND FAMILIES
Posted on: Friday, June 28, 2002
Keywords: Middle East, US Foreign Policy
As the atrocities of Sept. 11 become part of our collective past, their repercussions shape our present and future. The legacy of these attacks embodies an ugly truth: namely, that the Bush Administration has exploited Sept. 11 to advance a...
BACKGROUND RESOURCE: THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
Posted on: Tuesday, January 1, 2002
Keywords: Palestine, Middle East, Peace Building
BACKGROUND RESOURCE: THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICTBy Yifat Susskind, Associate Director 1948: THE ORIGINS OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT• As in Ireland, India and Cyprus, British colonial "divide and rule" tactics culminated in November 1947 in the partition of Palestine into two newly independent states...
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