MADRE Articles
Articles with keyword "Womens Health"
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...
Un-Gagging Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Thursday, February 5, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
By Yifat Susskind, MADRE Communications Director Of the many crises President Barack Obama faces, few are more urgent than preventing the needless deaths of half a million people this year. This is the number of women who die annually from...
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...
CSW Events
Posted on: Monday, February 25, 2008
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean
Event Announcements MADRE at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2008 Launch of the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign Human Rights for Women — Human Rights for All: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration...
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...
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...
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...
Rule of Law, Not Martial Law: MADRE Urges Defense of Civil Society in Pakistan
Posted on: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Pakistan
MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, is deeply concerned about the safety and freedom of those in Pakistan who are defending human rights and the independence of the judiciary. Since November 3, more than 1,500 members of Pakistan's human...
"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...
Neoliberal Jihadist at the World Bank
Posted on: Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Global Food Crisis, Women's Health, Peace Building
This spring, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was forced to resign because of a scandal. Of course, the real scandal is the World Bank's flagrant violation of its own mission. Charged with fighting global poverty, the Bank has consistently pursued...
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,...
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...
Indigenous Women: Fighting for Rights, Creating Change
Posted on: Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Peace Building, Indigenous Rights
MADRE Speaks Spring/Summer 2007 Long-time MADRE supporters may recall that our first partnership—formed in 1983—was with Indigenous women in Nicaragua. Ever since then, MADRE has worked with Indigenous women who are organizing to...
It's Not Just an Abortion Ban: The Christian Right's Global Agenda
Posted on: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
After the initial shock of the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding President Bush's abortion ban, it's time to acknowledge the full reality of the decision. According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists—which represents 90 percent of OB/GYNs in...
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 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...
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...
Sexual Rights are Human Rights
Posted on: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Sexual Rights
A MADRE Position Paper MADRE understands that sexual rights—including the right to exercise and express sexuality freely and safely; be protected from sexual violence and discrimination; be in charge of decisions about one’s own body; have access to information...
Reproductive Choice and Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Reproductive Rights
A MADRE Position Paper If a woman cannot choose whether, when and with whom to have children, her other life choices—if or when to marry, where to live, and what kind of work to pursue—are limited. In fact, reproductive...
Patent Rights Over Human Rights: African Women and US AIDS Policy
Posted on: Thursday, April 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
A MADRE Position Paper Thanks largely to the work of African public-health and social-justice advocates, growing numbers of people around the world know that sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of the AIDS pandemic:...
"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...
Violence Against Women in Latin America
Posted on: Friday, January 6, 2006
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Guatemala, Colombia
A MADRE Position Paper Violence against women in Latin America reflects global trends, mediated by histories and conditions specific to the region. These include colonization, war, migration, and neoliberalism. As in other regions, gender-based violence was integral to the...
Cuba
Posted on: Thursday, April 28, 2005
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Cuba, Latin America and Caribbean
A MADRE Position Paper Proponents of neoliberal economics routinely claim that the only way to improve healthcare in poor countries is through free trade, privatization, and corporate deregulation. Yet Cuba demonstrates that high standards of health and healthcare are attainable...
The UN Millennium Development Goals: Obstacles and Opportunities
Posted on: Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Women's Health
A MADRE Position paper Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerAchieve universal primary educationPromote gender equality and empower womenReduce child mortalityImprove maternal healthCombat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseasesEnsure environmental sustainabilityDevelop a global partnership for development World Summit...
Violence against Women: An Integrated Human Rights Approach
Posted on: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Keywords: Combating Violence Against Women, Women's Health
16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an annual global campaign that begins on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The 16 days continue through World AIDS Day (December 1), and end...
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...
