Press and Publications

This report, published in advance of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee's review of Iraq during the 74th Session, addresses urgent areas of concern related to the status of human rights of lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LBTI) people in Iraq. 

Trump is steering us towards a disastrous war. We must act immediately to prevent it.

In a tumultuous world, there’s one thing you can count on: where oppressive power reigns, people will rise up to confront it. That’s always been true, and this year it feels all the more so. On Human Rights Day, we celebrate that resistance. 

The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), with the support of MADRE, is working to challenge the law that prevents non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from safely sheltering victims of abuse.

MADRE stands with Bolivia’s progressive social movements and Indigenous Peoples in this moment of crisis, as they still seek to realize a vision of economic and environmental justice, and respect for individual and collective rights.

Here are three key questions to better understand this moment in Iraq, what are the root causes of this uprising and how people are mobilizing to secure change.

“I didn’t think about the risks. I just knew I had to do something.”

On Wednesday, Turkey launched a military attack on northeastern Syria. Just days before, in a conversation with the Turkish President Erdogan, Trump greenlit this assault.

In response to the UN Climate Summit, climate justice and women’s rights activists introduced a set of collective feminist demands to help advance the Green New Deal. 

Drafted by Proceso de Comunidades Negras, MADRE, and the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at CUNY School of Law, the report is on human rights violations and a pattern of discrimination against Afro-Colombian women and their communities.

MADRE is working with our partners Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development (SOFEPADI) to support women, children and families affected by the Ebola crisis in the community of Beni