Press and Publications

2011: A Year of Transformations

October 18, 2011, marked the third anniversary of the Al Mousawat radio project, a pioneering radio initiative founded by MADRE partner organization OWFI. In celebration of Al Mousawat Radio's success, MADRE Executive Director Yifat Susskind and Program Director Natalia Caruso...

On September 30, Aya Al Lamie, an activist from the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq was detained, kidnapped and tortured for several hours for her involvement in organizing pro-democracy protests in Iraq. In condemnation of such acts of...

Today, Congress is preparing to vote on a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia that was signed–but not ratified– in 2006 by then-Presidents George W. Bush and Alvaro Uribe. Today's passage of the agreement would end almost five years of...

MADRE stands with the thousands of protesters who have occupied Wall Street and with their allies worldwide.

MADRE and the Indigenous Information Network pay tribute to Wangari Muta Maathai

Today, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is expected to submit a request for Palestinian statehood to the United Nations.

MADRE congratulates the Center for Constitutional Rights for their courageous decision to file a case at the International Criminal Court.

The Amici Curiae Brief was submitted by a large groups of organizations which included MADRE as well as the IWHR Clinic at the City University of New York in support of the application filed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Karen Atala and daughters against the State of Chile. 

This week, the United Nations declared that the famine in East Africa has spread to a sixth region in Somalia.

MADRE is hiring a Website and Online Membership Coordinator.

Over this past week, MADRE staff have been in Kenya visiting our sister organizations..