Ensuring Grassroots Collaboration with UN Women
Yesterday, I took part in a conversation with the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) campaign and UN Women, organized by our friends at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. The GEAR...
View ArticleDon’t Let NATO Chill the Arab Spring
Yesterday, MADRE released the below statement on the US intervention in Libya: MADRE stands with the people of Libya fighting for democracy and an end to repressive government. MADRE opposes NATO’s...
View ArticleNew Report Released on Renewable Energy
A new report released states that renewable energy sources could meet 80 percent of the world’s energy demands by 2050 if governments actively pursue renewable energy policies. This is welcome news in...
View ArticleThe Green Economy and Indigenous Peoples
Last week, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) hosted a meeting to present their newest publication, Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication,...
View ArticleWomen Know the Cost of Conflict & Disaster
In the chaos of conflict or following a natural disaster, women are the most vulnerable to violence. Serving as providers of support for both their families and communities, women are also often the...
View ArticleAt Our Doorstep: Health Care as a Human Right for Latin American Children
In 2014, as many as 90,000 children from Central America are expected to attempt to cross the border into the US – more than double from last year. Many are without their families, without prospects or...
View ArticlePeace and Development: A Challenge for Humanity and for World Leaders
In commemoration of this year’s International Day of Peace, our partner Otilia Lux de Coti, Executive Director of the International Indigenous Women’s Forum (IIWF-FIMI), delivered a statement on the...
View ArticleWomen Confronting ISIS: How to Disarm Rape as a Weapon of War
Under even the harshest circumstances of brutal occupation by ISIS fighters, Iraqi and Syrian women are organizing to save lives and demand their rights. They are setting up shelters to protect women...
View ArticlemyMADRE Link Roundup: Women Creating Solutions
What we’ve written, read, listened to, remembered, watched and been inspired by this month. [View the story “myMADRE Link Roundup: Women Creating Solutions” on Storify]
View ArticleCelebrating the International Day of Indigenous Peoples
Every year on August 9, we celebrate the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, an important time to recognize and celebrate their contributions towards creating a better world. It’s also a time to...
View ArticlemyMADRE Link Roundup: Promoting Sustainable Peace
What we’ve written, read, listened to, remembered, watched and been inspired by this month. [View the story “myMADRE Link Roundup: Promoting Sustainable Peace ” on Storify]
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