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Articles with keyword "Emergency Relief"
Help Families Fleeing Famine in Somalia
Posted on: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change
A famine is raging in East Africa. You can help.
Famine Spreads in Somalia: You Can Help
Posted on: Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Keywords: Africa, Emergency Relief, Kenya, Climate Change, UN
The United Nations just declared famine in another three areas in Somalia...
Help MADRE Spread the Word: Confront the Famine in Somalia
Posted on: Monday, August 1, 2011
Keywords: Kenya, Africa, Environmental Justice, Water Rights, Climate Change, Famine, Emergency Relief
Please take this opportunity to give as generously as you can.
Meet MADRE: Women as First Responders to Conflict and Disaster
Posted on: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Keywords: Sudan, Iraq, Nicaragua, Emergency Relief, Women Human Rights Defenders
Recently, MADRE launched the new
Take Action: Maintain Funding for Humanitarian Assistance Programs
Posted on: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Keywords: Emergency Relief, US Foreign Policy
This call to action has been initiated by the Women's Refugee Commission. Take action, and ask your senators to maintain current funding for life-saving humanitarian assistance programs. These efforts have been historically underfunded at less than 1 percent of the...
Pakistan: The Disaster, and the Way Out
Posted on: Monday, August 23, 2010
Keywords: Pakistan, Emergency Relief, Environmental Justice, Economic Justice, Asia
This statement was put out by Labour Party Pakistan (Karachi), National Trade Union Federation.Contact: ntufpak@gmail.com The recent floods represent the worst disaster in Pakistan’s history. The country has been devastated from the Northern Areas to its Southern tip. The State, stripped...
Take Action: Don't Let the Taliban Benefit from the Flood Crisis - Send More Aid to Pakistan
Posted on: Monday, August 23, 2010
Keywords: Pakistan, Emergency Relief, Environmental Justice, Asia, Water Rights
Lack of aid to Pakistan could have dire effects for women and girls.
Update: Pakistan Flooding
Posted on: Thursday, August 19, 2010
Keywords: Pakistan, Emergency Relief, Environmental Justice, Asia, Water Rights
Yesterday, we asked for your help responding to the flooding in Pakistan. We're getting new information from our friends at Shirkat Gah all the time. Here is an update on the situation.
Women in Pakistan need you
Posted on: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Keywords: Pakistan, Emergency Relief, Environmental Justice, Asia, Water Rights
Monsoon flooding has devastated over a quarter of the land in Pakistan, including its agricultural heartland and remote mountainous areas. The Pakistani government estimates that 20 million people will be affected by this disaster, and 3.5 million children are at...
Event: Focus on Haiti: The Road to Recovery - A Six Month Review
Posted on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Event, US Foreign Policy
Six months after Haiti's devastating earthquake, participants will share with members of the CBC their perspectives on how U.S. policy can best advance Haitian efforts to strengthen housing, agriculture, justice, health, gender equality and overall reconstruction initiatives in post-earthquake Haiti.
MADRE Partner from Haiti Testifies Before the UN Human Rights Council
Posted on: Monday, June 7, 2010
Keywords: UN, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Today, Malya Villard-Appolon, a Haitian women’s rights activist and MADRE partner who has lived in the camps for displaced people since the earthquake destroyed her home in January, is testifying before representatives from the Human Rights Council in Geneva.Malya, a...
Ensuring Haitian Women's Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction: Executive Summary
Posted on: Monday, April 5, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Human Rights Advocacy, Emergency Relief
The Executive Summary of "Ensuring Haitian Women's Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction," a Gender Shadow Report in response to the 2010 Haiti Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA). Haiti at a Crossroads On January 12, 2010 the...
Event: A Call for the Inclusion of Haitian Women in International Donor Meeting
Posted on: Friday, March 26, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
As donor nations gather in New York for a major conference on reconstruction in Haiti, Haitian women are demanding that their voices be heard in all phases of the deliberation. To amplify their call, a coalition of Haitian and international...
Ensuring Haitian Women's Participation and Leadership in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction
Posted on: Friday, March 19, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
An Open Letter to Donors of the Haiti ReconstructionWe are a coalition of women from diverse backgrounds working both on the ground in Haiti and within the international arena. As organizations committed to partnering with Haitian women to ensure their...
Forthcoming: Gender Shadow Report on Haiti Post-Disaster Needs Assessment
Posted on: Friday, March 19, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
In recent weeks, Haitian government officials and global stakeholders representatives have worked to draft a Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) to serve as a blueprint for Haiti’s reconstruction. Although the PDNA is comprised of eight themes: governance, productive sectors, social sectors,...
Haiti NGO Letter to the Donors' Conference
Posted on: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Keywords: Human Rights Advocacy, Latin America & Caribbean, Haiti, Economic Development, Emergency Relief
MADRE joined organizations from around the world in calling on the Donors' Conference on Haiti to adopt a human rights-based approach to rebuilding Haiti. Attendees of the conference include: United States, Canada, France, Japan, EU (presidency with Spain until July...
Haiti: Women's Health Delegation Continues to Provide Support to Haitian Clinic
Posted on: Thursday, March 11, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
The women's health delegation is still in Haiti. New volunteers arrived at the end of February, relieving members of the volunteer team who had arrived immediately following the earthquake. The maternity ward has been moved to a larger part of...
Ensuring Haitian Women's Participation and Leadership Are Institutionalized in All Stages of National Relief and Reconstruction
Posted on: Thursday, March 4, 2010
Keywords: UN, CSW, Economic Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is working with our partners in Haiti and with a coalition of women's organizations to ensure that Haitian women's human rights are upheld in all of the relief and reconstruction programs being undertaken in Haiti. The coalition submitted this...
Bringing Aid to a Young Mother in Haiti
Posted on: Friday, February 26, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is working with the Feminist Solidarity Camp (a international network of women's rights organizations) to distribute supplies to women, children and families in Haiti.Our teams provided tents and plastic roofing to Dr. Pape of GHESKIO so that he could...
Event: A Voice for Ayiti
Posted on: Monday, February 22, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Event, International Womens Day
Join MADRE and MADRE members at a benefit event for relief work in Haiti.HarmoNYom in association with Drom & WKCR 89.9 FM Present "A VOICE FOR AYITI"An incredible BENEFIT CONCERT On MONDAY MARCH 8 From 6:00 PM to MIDNIGHT(International Women's...
Policy Recommendations to Address Critical Security Concerns and Needs of Women Human Rights Defenders in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Women Human Rights Defenders
A position statement from the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition. MADRE is a member of this coalition.POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADDRESS CRITICAL SECURITY CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN HAITI IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 12 JANUARY...
Women's Human Rights Are Key to Successful Reconstruction in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
In the traumatic weeks after the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, survivors have endured the loss of loved ones, severe injuries, shortages of food and water, collapsed homes and constant fear of renewed aftershocks. Through it all, we...
Hospital in Port-au-Prince Open to Earthquake Survivors
Posted on: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is working with Partners in Health to support Zanmi Lasante as they continue providing emergency care for the earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince and for those who have managed to flee the city.At HUEH, the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, there...
Emergency in Haiti! Please send humanitarian aid
Posted on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
The worst earthquake in 200 years struck Haiti yesterday, causing catastrophic destruction in the hemisphere’s poorest country. The quake struck near the capital of Port-au-Prince, the most densely populated part of Haiti. MADRE has activated an emergency response through our...
You and MADRE in 2010
Posted on: Thursday, January 7, 2010
Keywords: Sudan, Kenya, Guatemala, Palestine, Nicaragua, Panama, Iraq, Colombia, Afghanistan, Emergency Relief
Make this the year that you become an unstoppable force for women’s human rights.When you partner with MADRE in 2010, you’ll: Save lives, Build lasting solutions to violence and poverty, and Join the world’s bravest women in making human rights...
Saving Lives in Nicaragua: Preparing for Hurricane Season
Posted on: Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America & Caribbean, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Indigenous Rights, Water Rights, Emergency Relief
Deadly WaterHouses submerged entirely in floodwaters. Whole villages leveled by winds gusting more than 160 miles per hour. These are often the images that come to mind when we think about the devastation caused by a hurricane in a poor...
Crisis in Sri Lanka
Posted on: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Keywords: Emergency Relief, Sri Lanka
Yesterday, tens of thousands of women and families began pouring out of the war zone in northern Sri Lanka, where they have been trapped for months. These families need our help immediately. They are traumatized and hungry. Many are sick...
Humanitarian Crisis Renewed in Darfur
Posted on: Monday, March 9, 2009
Keywords: Darfur, Sudan, Africa, Emergency Relief, Economic Justice, Food Sovereignty, Water Rights
Sudan's President Bashir just expelled 13 international aid organizations from Darfur - and he's now threatening to expel even more.Over one million people in Darfur depend on these aid groups every day for food, water and health services. But in...
MADRE Co-Sponsors a Delegation to Gaza
Posted on: Thursday, March 5, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief
MADRE is co-sponosoring Codepink's delegation to Gaza where they are meeting with several organizations, including MADRE's partner organization in Gaza, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.From Codepink's website:Itinerary: Meet up in Cairo, Egypt on March 5 Travel to Gaza on March...
MADRE's sister organization in Gaza outlines 12 month plan to address massive medical and humanitarian crisis left by invasion
Posted on: Monday, January 19, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza
While the bombardment of Gaza is currently halted, the impact of a month of ceaseless violence against women and families is catastrophic. MADRE's sister organization, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, has assessed the most critical needs of the population and...
MADRE Condemns the Assassination of Indigenous Activist in Colombia
Posted on: Thursday, January 15, 2009
Keywords: Colombia, Indigenous Rights, Emergency Relief
On December 16, 2008, Edwin Legarda was killed by Colombian army personnel when they fired 17 shots into the vehicle he was driving. He was the husband of Indigenous human rights defender Aida Quilcue, who had recently returned from testifying...
Israel's use of non-conventional weapons in Gaza
Posted on: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza
An update from our sister organization in Gaza, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS): There is growing evidence that the Israeli army is using non-conventional weapons in its assault on Gaza according to a report released on Friday 9 January...
Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Posted on: Saturday, January 10, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza
An update from our sister organization in Gaza, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS):Saturday morning, the 27th of December, Israel started a massive offensive in the Gaza Strip, leaving behind death, destruction and intense suffering. Israeli military planes carried out...
Burma: Cyclone Nargis Emergency Response Update
Posted on: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Keywords: Burma, Emergency Relief, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
The repeated obstruction of international aid efforts in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma meant that cyclone survivors lacking access to food, water, sanitation, and shelter relied heavily on monasteries, churches, and NGOs for support. In response to the...
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