MADRE's Sister Organizations in the News

Barbaric 'honour killings' become the weapon to subjugate women in Iraq (The Independent, April 28, 2008)
Women targeted amid growing violence in Basra (Al Jazeera English, November 16, 2007)
In Iraq, Activist Struggles as Women's Rights Shrink (Fresh Air, National Public Radio, May 30, 2007)
'You can come upon women's bodies anywhere' (The Guardian, May 18, 2007)
Yanar Mohammed on the Dire Situation for Women Under U.S. Occupation and Rising Fundamentalism (Democracy Now!, May 14, 2007)
'Democracy' Is Hell (The Nation, May 10, 2007)
The Talibanization of Iraq (Ms. Magazine, Spring 2007)
Yanar Mohammed discusses the Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women (The Lisa Birnbach Show, May 3, 2007 )
Mónica Carillo featured on MTV's Element Series (Element, April 2007)
Human Rights Group Signals Iraq is becoming a Theocracy (Free Speech Radio News, March 7, 2007)
Women's Lives Unraveling in Occupied Iraq (Inter Press Service, March 7, 2007)
MADRE report on gender-based violence in Iraq: Yifat Susskind and Houzan Mahmoud interviewed (Democracy NOW!, March 6, 2007)
Yanar Mohammed interviewed on Radio Nation with Laura Flanders (Radio Nation, December 13, 2006)

IRAQ: It's Hard Being a Woman (Inter Press Service, December 5, 2006)
Playing Politics with Women's Lives in Nicaragua (Women's Media Center, November 29, 2006)
Nicaragua Passes Total Ban on Abortion (New York Times, October 26, 2006)
Yanar Mohammed: The Tigress of Baghdad (CBC Radio, September 19, 2006)
Baghdad Poets Find an Oasis from Violence (Morning Edition, National Public Radio, October 19, 2006)
Rebecca Lolosoli and the community of Umoja featured in Essence ("It Takes a Village", Essence, October 2006)
Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq's women (The Observer, October 8, 2006)
Human rights groups demand UN probe of Sri Lanka abuses (Yahoo News, September 23, 2006)
Iraqi Women Claim Abuse in Prison (Morning Edition, National Public Radio, August 1, 2006)
Widows Often Find Help Elusive in Iraq (Washington Post, July 23, 2006)
UMOJA: Un village refuge pour les femmes kényanes (CBC French and Radio-Canada, June 2006)
Activists Seek to Protect Iraqi Women from Honor Killings (National Public Radio, May 18, 2006)
Interview with Yifat Susskind and Yanar Mohammed on the current situation in Iraq (Sprouts Radio, May 11, 2006)
Stolen Away: As criminal gangs run amuck in Iraq, hundreds of girls have gone missing. Are they being sold for sex? (TIME Magazine, May 1, 2006)
Saddam Better for Women (IPS News, March 29, 2006)
Yanar Mohammed Interviewed by Women's Human Rights Net (February 2006)
Iraqi Feminist Yanar Mohammed on the Iraq Constitution Vote (Democracy Now!, October 17, 2005)

Devastated by Mudslides, Guatemalan Villagers Refuse Military Aid Remembering 1990 Army Massacre (Democracy Now!, October 11, 2005)
Sunila Abeysekera, Executive Director of INFORM, MADRE's partner organization in Sri Lanka, and Yifat Susskind, MADRE's Associate Director interviewed about the World Summit (WBAI Wake-up Call, September 16, 2005)
Thriving women-only village is attacked by jealous locals (The Daily Telegraph, July 17, 2005)
A Place Where Women Rule: All-Female Village in Kenya Is a Sign Of Burgeoning Feminism Across Africa (Washington Post, July 9, 2005)
For Iraqi women, Abu Ghraib's taint (Christian Science Monitor, May 28, 2004)
Women Under Siege (The Nation, December 11, 2003)