MADRE Statements
Articles with keyword "Womens Health"
MADRE Statement on the 2012 US Elections
Posted on: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Keywords: US Foreign Policy, Reproductive Rights, Climate Change, Economic Justice, Women's Health
Yesterday’s US presidential election and confirmation of a second term for President Obama marked a series of unprecedented landmarks for human rights and progressive values. With President Obama’s defeat of Governor Mitt Romney, millions of US voters repudiated an extreme version...
Congratulations to Rose Cunningham on her Women's World Summit Foundation's Prize!
Posted on: Thursday, August 23, 2012
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin American and Caribbean, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Indigenous Rights, Women Human Rights Defenders
Dear Rose, We would like to extend our most heartfelt congratulations to you on being awarded the Women's World Summit Foundation's Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life! This award marks an important stride in generating visibility to the powerful work you are...
Send Messages of Hope for Cuba and Palestine
Posted on: Thursday, July 26, 2012
Keywords: Cuba, Palestine, Middle East, Latin America and Caribbean, Women's Health
Click here for a chance to have your voice heard by our sisters in Cuba and Palestine.
Week of Twitter Action on Afghanistan
Posted on: Monday, July 2, 2012
Keywords: Afghanistan, Middle East, Women's Health, Economic Justice, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE is partnering with CODEPINK on a week of Twitter Action around the Second International Afghanistan Conference.
Take Action: Say no to an abortion ban in Turkey
Posted on: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Keywords: Turkey, Reproductive Rights, Women's Health
Take action and stand up for women's reproductive rights worldwide.
Cholera Rages in Haiti: Help Us Respond
Posted on: Monday, April 2, 2012
Keywords: Haiti, Latin American and Caribbean, Women's Health
In Haiti, a cholera epidemic is devastating communities.
Events: MADRE at CSW
Posted on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Keywords: Events, Women's Health, Economic Justice, Combating Violence Against Women, Environmental Justice, CSW, UN
Join MADRE and our partners for the following events at the 56th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
Emergency & Disaster Relief Fund: Flooding in Central America
Posted on: Friday, October 28, 2011
Keywords: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Latin America, Women's Health
MADRE's sister organizations in Nicaragua and Guatemala are reeling from the flooding that has swept through Central America. They are mobilizing to save lives in their communities—and you can help.The flooding, triggered by relentless torrential rain, has killed...
COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit a Success
Posted on: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Keywords: Event, Women's Health
Below is an update from Circle of Health International (COHI) about their First Annual Women's Health Summit in June. MADRE Policy & Communications Director Yifat Susskind spoke at the event (pictured below on the left-hand side).1st Summit Success!COHI’s First Annual...
Rape a Part of Daily Life for Women in Haitian Relief Camps
Posted on: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Womens Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Below is an update from the Ms. Magazine blog by Gina Ulysse and discusses the work being done by MADRE and our partners in Haiti. Even after the aftershocks of the devastating Jan. 12 quake subsided, women’s bodies were still...
New Report Released on Haiti: Our Bodies Are Still Trembling - Haitian Women's Fight Against Rape
Posted on: Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Six months after the earthquake in Haiti, we see a continued crisis of safety and security in the displacement camps that has exacerbated the already grave problem of sexual violence. In May and June, MADRE joined delegations coordinated by the...
Statement at the Human Rights Council
Posted on: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Keywords: UN, Human Rights Advocacy, Nicaragua, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
On June 9, 2010, MADRE lent a hand to Nicaraguan women's rights activist Azahalea Solis Roman, who testified before the UN Human Rights Council against her country's ban on therapeutic abortions. Her testimony is below. 1.- Introduction The report to...
Event: COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit
Posted on: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Event
MADRE's Policy & Communications Director, Yifat Susskind, will be speaking at COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit on June 4, 2010 in Boston. See the details below. Bridges: Women’s Health Care as an Agent of Change How does women’s health status...
MADRE Speaks: Stories of our Sisters 2010
Posted on: Thursday, April 22, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women, Peace Building, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
This month, MADRE published Stories of our Sisters 2010, our Spring/Summer Newsletter. Read the letter from Executive Director Vivian Stromberg below and check out the newsletter online. If you would like us to send you a print copy, please call...
Ending the Global Gag Rule Permanently
Posted on: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, US Foreign Policy
Last week, MADRE joined hundreds of organizations from the US and around the world in calling on Representative Nita Lowey and Senator Patrick Leahy to take action to prohibit the future imposition of the dangerous Global Gag Rule on health...
Making Health a Priority Around the World
Posted on: Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Keywords: Womens Health
April 7 is World Health Day. Health is not only the absence of disease or infirmity, but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being. The strongest determinants of health are the social, political and economic forces in our...
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...
Call on Nicaragua to Allow Cancer Patient a Therapeutic Abortion
Posted on: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Keywords: Reproductive Rights, Women's Health, Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean
Since October 2006, women in Nicaragua have been denied the right to an abortion, even in cases where pregnancy puts a woman's life at risk.Amelia, a 27-year-old Nicaraguan woman and the mother of a 10-year-old child, has cancer. Despite the...
MADRE Partner Reports on the State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Posted on: Sunday, January 24, 2010
Keywords: UN, Indigenous Rights, Women's Health
Long-time MADRE partner Myrna Cunningham wrote a chapter on the current health situation of Indigenous Peoples for the United Nations report "State of the World's Indigenous Peoples."From the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:"Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity's...
Commemorating World AIDS Day
Posted on: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, AIDS, US Foreign Policy
Today is World AIDS Day - a good time to remember that AIDS continues to ravage much of the world and that women are disproportionately affected as response to this pandemic flounders. AIDS Around the WorldHIV is the leading cause...
Childbirth under Occupation: A Conversation between Yifat Susskind and a Palestinian Midwife
Posted on: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
In the West Bank, Palestinian women in labor are routinely denied access to necessary medical care by Israeli military checkpoints and roadblocks. MADRE partners with a group of Palestinian and Israeli midwives to ensure that skilled, well-equipped midwives are available...
Remembering Dr. Tiller by Supporting Reproductive Rights
Posted on: Monday, June 1, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, Reproductive Rights
All of us at MADRE join our members and the many organizations and individuals around the country who have expressed their sadness and anger at the killing of Dr. George Tiller.We have lost a passionate champion of women's human rights--and...
MADRE Joins Other Women's Organizations in Thanking President Obama for Rescinding the Global Gag Rule
Posted on: Friday, January 23, 2009
Keywords: Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
January 23, 2009President Barack Obama1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Obama,The undersigned organizations working to promote women's sexual and reproductive health and rights write to express deep gratitude for your repeal of the Global Gag Rule. We thank you...
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