MADRE Articles
Articles with keyword "Us Foreign Policy"
"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.
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...
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...
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...
Top 10 Reasons Why Latin American Women Oppose Bush's Free Trade Agenda
Posted on: Monday, November 7, 2005
Keywords: Latin America and Caribbean, US Foreign Policy, Economic Justice
Bush is branding Latin Americans' broad rejection of his trade agenda at last week's Summit of the Americas in Argentina as an attempt to
Adjusting to Empire
Posted on: Sunday, June 1, 2003
Keywords: US Foreign Policy
Adjusting to Empire By Yifat Susskind, Associate Director, MADREJune 2003________________________________________“America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon of freedom and opportunity in the world.” – George Bush, September 11, 2001 ________________________________________On September 11, 2001, George Bush supplied the...
FREE SOCIETIES DO NOT INTIMIDATE BY CRUELTY AND CONQUEST
Posted on: Sunday, September 1, 2002
Keywords: US Foreign Policy
“FREE SOCIETIES DO NOT INTIMIDATE BY CRUELTY AND CONQUEST” AND OTHER GREAT QUOTES FROM BUSH’S BIG SPEECH TO THE UN By Yifat Susskind, Associate DirectorSeptember 20021. “Our principles and our security are challenged today by outlaw groups and regimes that accept no...
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...
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...
