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Job Opening: Development Coordinator, MADRE

MADRE is seeking an experienced, passionate, highly organized development professional to serve as our Development Coordinator. Responsibilities: Work with Executive Director to implement organizational fundraising strategyCoordinate and further develop Major Donors Program; generate communications with ...

published: 05/26/2010
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Be a Lifeline for Women in Afghanistan

The situation in Afghanistan is extremely dangerous for women, and the ones who speak up for their rights are in the greatest danger of all.In fact, at the very moment I write this, 39-year-old Ranna Tareen, director of Kandahar's Women's...

published: 05/26/2010
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Make the United Nations more effective in realizing women's rights

Join MADRE and other progressive organizations by supporting the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign. You can sign the petition (below) through Amnesty International's website: sign the petition here. The United Nations is a galvanizing force in setting new international...

published: 05/26/2010
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Job Opening: Executive Director, MADRE

Education: Bachelors (BA, BS) Location: New York, NY Type: Full Time Sector: Non-profit Salary: TBD Language(s): English, Spanish Last Day to Apply: July 16th, 2010

MADRE is seeking an innovative Executive Director who has a deep understanding of the non-governmental political terrain, women's....

published: 05/25/2010
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Looking Towards the Future: A Note from Vivian Stromberg

Dear Friends, I'm writing to you from Nicaragua, where I just had a long conversation with Mirna Cunningham, my dear friend and MADRE's first-ever partner from 1983. We made plans for MADRE to send another shipment of medicines and school...

published: 05/25/2010
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Event: Women in Black, Union Square

Women in Black are holding a special event to acknowledge 43 years of Occupation by Israel of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza–and the disastrous effects it has had upon the Palestinian people.Please join us.Thursday June 3, 2010,...

published: 05/24/2010
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Take Action for Honduran Activists

Take action for Honduran activists! From Grassroots International:Honduran resistance leader and former Independent presidential candidate Carlos Reyes received a death threat on his cell phone last night. More than 40 activists, journalists, environmentalists, feminists and gay rights activists have been...

published: 05/24/2010
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Event: Ending Militarization in the Americas

The Latin America Solidarity Coalition will host a one-day Anti-militarization Organizers Conference on Thursday, November 18, 2010 in Columbus, GA.The conference will take place in the lead-up to the November Vigil to close the School of the Americas (SOA). It...

published: 05/19/2010
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Act for Afghan Women

As Afghan President Karzai wraps up his visit to Washington, DC, we at MADRE noticed something is missing. We have seen news stories about the upcoming military offensive in Kandahar, about the Taliban's continuing hold on power and about...

published: 05/13/2010
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Event: COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit

MADRE's Policy & Communications Director, Yifat Susskind, will be speaking at COHI's First Annual Women's Health Care Summit on June 4, 2010 in Boston. See the details below. Bridges: Women's Health Care as an Agent of Change How does...

published: 05/11/2010
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Indigenous Peoples on Advancing the Implementation of CSD

MADRE partner Lucy Mulenkei, Executive Director of the Indigenous Information Network (IIN), is participating at the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) meeting at the UN. CSD 18th Session, 11th May 2010 Intervention of Indigenous...

published: 05/11/2010
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Rhonda Copelon, a champion of women's human rights

Our friend and long-time ally, Rhonda Copelon, the wonderful women's human rights lawyer and activist, died yesterday at the age of 65.Rhonda was a professor of law and the co-director of the International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic at the...

published: 05/07/2010
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Event: Indigenous Peoples, Mining and Sustainable Development

This event will be moderated by Lucy Mulenkei, the Executive Director of MADRE's partner, the Indigenous Information Network (IIN) in Kenya. Indigenous Peoples, Mining and Sustainable Development6:15 - 7:45pm, Thursday May 6, 2010 at the ECOSOC ChamberNorth Lawn Building, UN...

published: 05/06/2010
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Mining and Sustainable Development

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a member of MADRE's Network of Experts, presented this at the Thematic Session on Mining during the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) at the UN. CSD18 Review Session, Interactive Panel: Thematic Session on Mining6 May 2010UN Headquarters,...

published: 05/06/2010
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Indigenous Peoples Demand a Role in Global Waste Management

MADRE partner Lucy Mulenkei, Executive Director of the Indigenous Information Network (IIN), is participating at the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) meeting this week and next at the UN. This letter is a response to the Thematic Cluster on Waste...

published: 05/06/2010
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Tell Your Senators to Support CEDAW Today

We know that women and girls around the world face violence and discrimination daily. We also know that CEDAW, the Women's Treaty, helps women and girls to go to school, to own and inherit property, to take part in public...

published: 05/05/2010
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Indigenous Peoples Recommend Transportation Solutions

MADRE partner Lucy Mulenkei, Executive Director of the Indigenous Information Network (IIN), is participating at the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) meeting this week and next at the UN. This letter is a response to the Thematic...

published: 05/05/2010
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