Press and Publications

Israel has announced a blacklist of 20 organizations barred from entering the country -- targeted because of their support of the tactic of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) to end unjust Israeli policies.

This year, MADRE’s Helping Hands program delivered life-saving medicines and health supplies to Indigenous communities in Nicaragua as well as prescription eyeglasses to families struggling with lack of healthcare coverage in the US.

Three organizations announced a petition on Wednesday asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring charges against ISIS for persecuting the people under its control on the basis of gender — including the public execution of men alleged to be gay. The petition is being submitted to the ICC by the New York-based women’s rights group Madre, the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), and City University of New York School of Law. It will be formally presented Wednesday afternoon at an event with ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.

 

A petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding ISIS crimes will be the first of its kind, seeking to advance protection of the rights of women and LGBTIQ people on the international stage. Filed jointly by three non-governmental organizations—MADRE, the Human Rights and Gender Justice (HRGJ) Clinic of the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, and the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI)—the petition makes the case that the International Criminal Court should prosecute ISIS fighters for crimes they have committed on the basis of gender, including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

In response to an urgent call from Afro-Descendant and Indigenous organizations in Colombia, human rights advocates from around the world signed an open letter, calling on the Colombian government to respect gender and racial justice provisions of Colombia’s peace accord.

When hurricanes strike, communities do what they can to stick together and take care of each other. The devastation caused by the recent hurricanes in Puerto Rico is still unfolding, but there's one thing we know for certain. Vulnerable communities are hit the hardest.

We interviewed Stella, one of our partners in Colombia, about her work to build peace and help survivors of sexual violence recover from trauma. 

For decades, Colombia's armed conflict has pitted government and right-wing paramilitary groups against anti-government guerrillas.

One of the major successes of the global women’s movement has been to critically examine the division between the personal and the political, and even to assert its nonexistence. The time has come to tear down yet another wall: the intellectual and political barriers between foreign and domestic policy, just as women tore down those dividing notions of the domestic and public spheres. 

In Nicaragua, we work with our local partner Wangki Tangni to end violence against women and to advance women’s rights. One of the ways we do that is by supporting local activists and women’s rights defenders called “promotoras.”

In Guatemala, we work with our local partner MUIXIL to support Indigenous women facing poverty, violence and discrimination.