MADRE Articles
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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.
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.
Climate Change and Women's Human Rights: The MADRE Model
Posted on: Friday, December 4, 2009
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, UN, Water Rights
Evidence is mounting that sustainable agriculture is our best hope for feeding a growing population and restoring the stability of the climate. Worldwide, the vast majority of those who farm sustainably are women. Securing the full range of their human...
What's Agriculture Got To Do with Climate Change?
Posted on: Monday, November 30, 2009
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, UN, Food Sovereignty
We tend to think of cars as the main culprits in climate change. But industrial agriculture, with its fossil-fuel-based fertilizers and pesticides, monoculture plantations, fuel-guzzling global transport system, and clear-cutting of carbon-absorbing forests is the source of as much as...
A Women's Rights-based Approach to Climate Change
Posted on: Monday, November 30, 2009
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, UN
From December 7-18, representatives of 192 governments, UN agencies and civil society organizations will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate a deal aimed at stabilizing the Earth’s climate. Climate change is already happening, so governments need to act fast to reduce...
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...
