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This exchange is one of many to bring women leaders from all over the world together in one space to learn from each other, strategize and build collective power.

The Amazon is ablaze. This year, the unprecedented number of fires raging in the rainforest represents an 82% increase from 2018. Smoke from the fires plunged Sao Paulo into darkness. This crisis threatens the survival of Indigenous Peoples who call the Amazon home. 

MADRE calls for solidarity with and protections for Indigenous Peoples in Brazil, especially Indigenous women who are defending their territories against exploitation and confronting far-right policies to protect their lands and communities. We are mobilizing resources to provide urgent aid and to support Indigenous women’s organizing.

In April, MADRE organized a delegation of international Indigenous women — from Kenya, Israel, Nepal, Colombia, Guatemala and Nicaragua -- partnering with the US-based Indigenous Environmental Network to bring them to North Dakota.

Women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) face a crisis of gender violence, discrimination and repression. 

Today and tomorrow, we’ll have the chance to hear from candidates at the first presidential primary debate. 

With your help, MADRE has achieved a historic victory – an important step in the ability of international law to protect all victims of atrocities.

The Trump Administration has finally released the US Strategy on Women, Peace, and Security (“WPS Strategy”). The WPS Strategy, mandated by the Women, Peace, and Security Act of October 2017, addresses the role of women in preventing and resolving conflict.

Women organizers, who led the resistance to the Trump administration from the president’s first day in office, propelled a movement that sent a record number of women to Congress in 2018.

Those fearless new women now making policy on Capitol Hill are not content to simply take office. Indeed, we see more equitable representation of women as only one step toward building a more just and feminist policy agenda—particularly within the male-dominated and notoriously entrenched realm of U.S. foreign policy.

MADRE calls for urgent and sustained solidarity with Afro-Colombian human rights defenders and peace advocates who were attacked on Saturday, May 4 by armed men during a community meeting in the region of Norte del Cauca. 

MADRE Speaks, Spring 2019 Newsletter, Fighting for Girls' Futures 

Yesterday, President Trump vetoed a bill Congress passed to end US military assistance to the Saudi Arabia-led war in Yemen.