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Targeting: Major General Gerardo Christian Chaumont (UN Pol, MINUSTAH), Edmond Mulet (UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General), Yukio Takasu (President UN Security Council), Force Commander Major General Luiz Paul Cruz (MINUSTAH), Rashida Manjoo (UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women)...

This month, MADRE published Stories of our Sisters 2010, our Spring/Summer Newsletter. Read the letter from Executive Director Vivian Stromberg below and check out the newsletter online. If you would like us to send you a print copy, please call...

*The following is a press release from La Alianza de Ex-Braceros del Norte 1942-64.Statement to be read on April 22, 2010 3pm-6pm at UN General Assembly RoomSpeakers available from 6-8 pm Thursday, April 22, 2010 and 8-12 noon Friday, April...

Join MADRE and the International Indigenous Women's Forum (IIWF/FIMI) for an evening celebrating Elsa Stamatopoulou, a human rights advocate committed to the struggles of Indigenous Peoples and a tireless activist for women's rights.Elsa - our friend, our sisterWhen:Wednesday, April...

This week, from April 19-22, Bolivia is hosting the People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC), where over 20, 000 people have gathered to debate the causes of and solutions to Climate Change.Unlike the...

MADRE welcomes President Obama's initiative to convene today's Nuclear Security Summit. As 47 nations gather in Washington, DC for the summit, MADRE joins other organizations calling for a concerted move towards a safer world free of the threat of nuclear...

April 7 is World Health Day. Health is not only the absence of disease or infirmity, but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being. The strongest determinants of health are the social, political and economic forces in our...

In advance of a crucial donors' conference on Haiti, 300 organizations today joined together and submitted a two-page letter of principles to participating states. MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, participated in this...

*The following is today's press release from UNIFEM. London – In the lead-up to the 28 January London Conference on Afghanistan hosted by the UK Government, Afghan women human rights defenders...

The worst earthquake in 200 years struck Haiti yesterday, causing catastrophic destruction in the hemisphere's poorest country. The quake struck near the capital of Port-au-Prince, the most densely populated part of Haiti, and thousands are...

October 16, 2008–New York, NY–Today, MADRE joins with its sister organizations to recognize World Food Day and to decry the rising numbers of people suffering from hunger. As the food crisis continues to rage across the globe, it has...

With a recent court filing in the case of a woman from Mexico seeking asylum in the US, the Obama Administration has signaled a shift in immigration law to make it possible for women survivors of severe domestic and sexual...