Press and Publications

Since 2001, MADRE and Taller de Vida, our local grassroots partner organization, have worked together to seek an end to years of war, to promote justice, and to sustain communities. 

We condemn this hateful, bigoted policy — one that institutionalizes Islamophobia and perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Muslims. 

Ten years ago, on January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti.

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. 

Afro-Colombian women took their demands for peace, justice and equality to the United Nations this week, as the Colombian Government faces questioning of its human rights record before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva.

MADRE is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Zawadi Mambo Albertine, known to most as “Mambo,” National Coordinator of SOFEPADI (Solidarité Féminine pour la Paix et le Développement Intégral), who was killed in a plane crash in Goma on November 24, 2019. 

En este momento de crisis MADRE apoya a los movimientos sociales progresistas de Bolivia y a los pueblos Indígenas, ya que todavía buscan realizar una visión de justicia económica, ambiental, y el respeto a los derechos individuales y colectivos

Yanar Mohammed, Founder of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and MADRE partner, speaks on Democracy Now!

MADRE is making emergency grants to grassroots organizations in Syria and across the region that are mobilizing urgently to meet people’s needs.

This report describes human rights violations committed by the Government of the United States against asylum seekers who are fleeing gender-based violence (GBV).

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.