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Articles with keyword "Latin America And Caribbean"
Pre-Natal Vitamins for 1,000 Nicaraguan Women
Posted on: Monday, February 25, 2013
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, Women's Health, Helping Hands
With your support, 1,000 women in Nicaragua received their full supply of pre-natal vitamins.
Health Care for Hundreds of Guatemalan Women
Posted on: Thursday, January 31, 2013
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Women's Health
Our partners at the Women Workers Committee recently held a health fair for women and their families in the neighborhood of Barcenas, just outside of Guatemala City. Women in this poor community have precious few opportunities to access health services—that’s why...
In Colombia, Children of War Rebuild Their Lives Through Art
Posted on: Thursday, June 28, 2012
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy
Executive Director Yifat Susskind reflects on a visit to our Colombian partners.
Bringing Women's Rights Home in Colombia
Posted on: Thursday, June 28, 2012
Keywords: Colombia, Latin America and Caribbean, Peace Building, Human Rights Advocacy
MADRE staff is in Colombia for an exciting conference on women's human rights and international law.
MADRE Delivers: Clean Water in Nicaragua
Posted on: Friday, June 22, 2012
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, Environmental Justice, Water Rights, Indigenous Rights
Our partners in Nicaragua are providing clean water to Indigenous coastal communities.
Cultivating a Brighter Future for Ixil Women: Catarina's Story
Posted on: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Economic Justice, Indigenous Rights
Read the story of Catarina, a member of our partner organization in Guatemala.
Photo Update from Nicaragua
Posted on: Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, Indigenous Rights
We recently sent a shipment of supplies to CADPI, our partner organization in Nicaragua - and we'd like to share our photos with you!
Haiti Photo Update
Posted on: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE staff members recently visited Haiti to bring shoe donations to a group of community organizers with KOFAVIV, MADRE's Haitian sister organization- and we'd like to share some of our photos with you!
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Photo Update from Haiti
Posted on: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
MADRE staff members recently visited Haiti to bring shoe donations to a group of community organizers with KOFAVIV, MADRE's Haitian sister organization- and we'd like to share some of our photos with you!
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A Conversation with Rose Cunningham of Wangki Tangni
Posted on: Monday, August 1, 2011
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, Environmental Justice, Disaster Relief, Water Rights, Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Flooding
Rose Cunningham speaks on Nicaragua's dangerous rainy season.
MADRE Members Supply Anti-Cholera Kits for Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Women's Health
Your support is already helping Haitians to survive regular, torrential rains.
Project Update: Engineering a Solution for Clean Water in Nicaragua
Posted on: Friday, March 25, 2011
Keywords: Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean, Environmental Justice, Water Rights
In the North Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, Indigenous Peoples often live without health or sanitation services, a result of government neglect and marginalization. This has left people facing life-threatening risks. We have heard women in the communities of our partner...
Project Update from Haiti: Human Rights Advocacy Training for Grassroots Women
Posted on: Friday, February 25, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Human Rights Advocacy, Combating Violence Against Women
Read the second part of the update on MADRE's recent trip to Haiti.
Haiti Update: Visiting KOFAVIV: A Refuge for Rape Survivors
Posted on: Friday, February 25, 2011
Keywords: Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women
Read part one of the update on MADRE's recent trip to Haiti.
Photos: MADRE Partners in Haiti Organize Sit-In
Posted on: Friday, August 13, 2010
Keywords: Haiti, Combating Violence Against Women, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Human Rights Advocacy
Early yesterday morning, MADRE partner and grassroots Haitian women's organizations KOFAVIV and FAVILEK organized a sit-in at the Haitian national palace to demand shelter for earthquake survivors and action to end the gender-based violence that is so common in the camps.
UN Agencies Listen to Grassroots Haitian Women's Organizations
Posted on: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Women's Health, Combating Violence Against Women
Two weeks ago, MADRE's Lisa Davis and Diana Duarte traveled to Haiti to meet with our partners from KOFAVIV. While there, they visited one of the camps where our partner organization KOFAVIV is working, distributed supplies to the women in...
Indigenous Peruvian Students Travel to Vermont for Cultural Exchange
Posted on: Friday, August 6, 2010
Keywords: Peru, Latin America and Caribbean, Indigenous Rights, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice
This summer, MADRE is worked with the Carving Studio Sculpture Center in Vermont and our Peruvian partner, CHIRAPAQ, to facilitate the second half of the Sixth Stone Carving Workshop for adolescents from Indigenous communities in Ayacucho. In January of this...
Six-Month Progress Report on MADRE's Response to the Haiti Earthquake
Posted on: Friday, July 9, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
MADRE has worked in Haiti since the early 1990s. When the earthquake struck, we immediately reached out to our sister organizations. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to provide them with life-saving support.
Taking a Stand Against Racism in Peru
Posted on: Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Keywords: Peru, Latin America and Caribbean
MADRE's partner organization in Peru, LUNDU, is dedicated to promoting respect for Peru’s populations of African descent and to combating racism and sexism. Last year, they launched a major media monitoring and anti-racism campaign, and MADRE has been working with...
Testifying for Haitian Women's Human Rights
Posted on: Monday, June 7, 2010
Keywords: UN, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
This week, MADRE and our partners are in Geneva at the 14th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Malya Villard-Appolon, a Haitian women’s rights activist and MADRE partner who has lived in the camps...
Advocating for Women's Human Rights in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Combating Violence Against Women, Human Rights Advocacy
An update on our work in Haiti:Lisa Davis, an attorney working with MADRE, traveled to Haiti last week as part of a delegation of human rights attorneys with the Lawyers' Earthquake Response Network (LERN), a project of the Institute for...
Meeting With Our Partner in Haiti
Posted on: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, Human Rights Advocacy
Lisa Davis, an attorney working with MADRE, traveled to Haiti last week as part of a delegation of human rights attorneys with the Lawyers' Earthquake Response Network (LERN), a project of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH),...
Farming for the Future: Combating Malnutrition in Indigenous Communities in Guatemala
Posted on: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Economic Justice, Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Food Sovereignty
Recent prolonged droughts and a drop in remittances due to the worldwide financial crisis have left many families in Guatemala unable to grown or buy food. To combat this problem, MADRE and Muixil have expanded Farming for the Future, a food security and microenterprise project for Indigenous Ixil women in El Quiché.
Conversation with Haitian Partner: Women's Clinic Providing Ongoing Treatment for Earthquake Survivors
Posted on: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Lise Marie Déjean, director SOFA, a MADRE sister organization in Haiti.MADRE is working with SOFA, a national Haitian women's organization, to provide medical services to earthquake survivors. SOFA and MADRE partnered...
Determining Long-Term Health Care Needs for Women in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
MADRE is continuing to partner with Circle of Health International (COHI) to support women's health volunteer teams in Fonds Parisien, Haiti.The teams are working to build and maintain a stable, sustainable response to women's health needs in the aftermath of...
Celebrating International Women's Day by Sending Supplies to Women in Haiti
Posted on: Monday, March 8, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Earthquake, International Womens Day, Helping Hands
In celebration of International Women's Day, MADRE's Helping Hands program is sending a shipment of first aid supplies, blankets and bottled water to Haiti where it will be distributed through our partners, Zanmi Lasante and Partners in Health. These supplies...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights requires the Nicaraguan Government to adopt urgent measures to save the life of Amalia*
Posted on: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Keywords: Reproductive Rights, Women's Health, Nicaragua, Latin America and Caribbean
This press release from Women's Link Worldwide refers to Nicaragua's denial of a therapeutic abortion for Amalia*, a 27-year-old cancer patient. Bogotá, March 1, 2010 – On February 18, 2010, a group of Nicaraguan and international organizations, specifically, the Nicaraguan...
Providing Tents for an Orphanage and a Women's Health Clinic in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
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.In Carrefour, a poor, mostly residential district in the greater metropolitain area of Port-au-Prince, our team...
Women's Health Volunteer Teams Distributing Supplies
Posted on: Friday, February 19, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
The women's health volunteer teams are still on the ground in Haiti, and the team in the clinic is seeing about 50 patients daily. The teams have been training local clinicians to ensure they are prepared to respond to needs...
Haiti: Zanmi Lasante Clinic Staff Continuing to Provide Around the Clock Care
Posted on: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Zanmi Lasante staff continue to work around the clock to provide care to the many injured and sick still arriving at Port-au-Prince's General Hospital (HUEH), as well as at their clinics and at field hospitals they set up during the...
Women's Health Delegation Working to Provide Pregnant Haitian Women with Critical Support
Posted on: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake, Womens Health
Several teams of MADRE-supported health workers are still on the ground in Haiti. Two new volunteers arrived yesterday. The medical volunteers are working out of a local clinic and treating 350 patients each day. The women's health teams are seeing...
Tents distributed for use as health clinics and shelters in Haiti
Posted on: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
The Myriam Merlet, Anne Marie Coriolan and Magali Marcelin Feminist International Camp is currently working to distribute tents in Haiti. The tents will be used as both health clinics and shelters. In addition to a resource distribution center, the Camp...
Haiti: Meeting Medical Needs Around the Country
Posted on: Friday, January 29, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Equipping Medical Staff in HaitiMADRE has been 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. Through the...
Broadcasting Live from Haiti--Tune In!
Posted on: Friday, January 29, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Earlier this week, we mentioned that a network of women’s rights activists and organizations—in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the broader Latin American and Caribbean region and around the world—have come together with MADRE to launch an incredible project in response...
Notes From Our Partner in Haiti
Posted on: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Ophelia Dahl, Executive Director of Partners in Health, arrived in Haiti on Friday, January 22 to meet with staff and volunteers and to assess Zanmi Lasante's needs for the coming weeks and months.MADRE is providing emergency support to Zanmi Lasante,...
Women's Health Delegation Working Around the Clock to Provide Emergency Care to Earthquake Survivors
Posted on: Monday, January 25, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
The women's health delegation arrived in Jimani, Dominican Republic last Tuesday, and they immediately began working around the clock to provide emergency services to the many busloads of people who had fled Haiti. The team has since arrived in Fonds...
International Feminist Solidarity in Action with Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is part of a newly-launched effort by women’s groups to open a Feminist International Solidarity Camp on the Haiti-Dominican Republic border.This initiative will work to direct resources and to open lines of communication with Haitian women. In particular, the...
MADRE-Supported Midwife Volunteers Fill a Vital Need in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is supporting a delegation of midwives and maternal health practitioners. Four members of the first team of midwives and maternal health providers have arrived in the border town of Jimani, and three more are scheduled to arrive this weekend....
Haiti Earthquake Relief: MADRE's Ongoing Response
Posted on: Thursday, January 21, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Over a week after the massive earthquake struck Haiti, the need for life-saving medical services remains overwhelming. Casualty estimates have risen. The death toll may be as high as 200,000 and the number of injured and homeless is in the...
Health Practitioners Mobilize to Provide Urgent Services
Posted on: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
Nearly a week after the massive earthquake struck Haiti, the need for life-saving medical services is overwhelming. Casualty estimates have risen, now reflecting a death toll of 200,000, and the number of injured and homeless is in the millions.MADRE partners...
Update on Medical Professionals Traveling to Haiti
Posted on: Friday, January 15, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE continues to respond to the cataclysmic earthquake that struck Haiti this week on Tuesday January 12. MADRE is partnering with Circle of Health International (COHI) to send a team of midwives, women’s health providers and public health professionals in...
Haiti Earthquake Relief: Why Give to MADRE
Posted on: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
In the wake of disasters like the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti, it is often comforting to see big international agencies taking charge of relief and reconstruction efforts. No doubt international agencies—with their resources, know-how, heavy machinery, and access to...
Sending Medical Professionals to Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE is collaborating with Partners in Health to send a team of medical personnel to Haiti. In particular, surgeons (especially trauma/orthopedic surgeons), ER doctors and nurses, and full surgical teams (including anesthesiologists, scrub and post-op nurses, and nurse anesthetists) are...
Update on Relief Efforts in Haiti
Posted on: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief, Earthquake
MADRE’s Emergency Medical Relief Effort is Reaching Earthquake Surviviors in Haiti. We Need Your Help to Save More Lives.You may be wondering whether MADRE is actually able to transport emergency relief given Haiti’s decimated infrastructure.We have determined that our partner...
MADRE Partner at the Launch of UN Campaign to End Violence Against Women
Posted on: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Combating Violence Against Women, UN
Raising the Voices of Maquila WorkersToday, Human Rights Day, officially marks the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign. The 16 Days Campaign, which begins annually on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against...
Guatemala: Farming for the Future, Photo Update
Posted on: Friday, August 28, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Economic Justice, Sustainable Agriculture
On a recent worktrip to Guatemala, Executive Director Vivian Stromberg and Program Coordinator Natalia Caruso visited our sister organization, Muixil.Muixil is a group of 350 Indigenous Ixil women living in the highlands of Guatemala. In the 1980s, the highlands were...
Guatemala: Photos from the Helping Hands Oral Hygiene Project
Posted on: Monday, August 24, 2009
Keywords: Guatemala, Latin America and Caribbean, Helping Hands, Women's Health
Thanks to MADRE members' support, Executive Director Vivian Stromberg was able to deliver toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, mouthwash and learning kits to children in the Barcenas community during her recent worktrip to Guatemala.The Women Workers' Committee, MADRE's partner in Barcenas, was...
Haiti and Cuba: Emergency Response Update
Posted on: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Keywords: Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Haiti, Cuba, Latin America and Caribbean, Emergency Relief
After a series of storms devastated Haiti and Cuba last month, MADRE members responded. MADRE was able to send emergency aid to our partner organizations in both countries. HaitiCurrent SituationThe five back-to-back storms that hit Haiti in the span of...
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