MADRE

MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with women's community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide. Our programs address issues of sustainable development, community improvement and women's health; violence and war; discrimination and racism; self-determination and collective rights; women's leadership development and human rights education.

Primary web addresses

http://www.madre.org

madre@madre.org

Main Address

121 W. 27th St. #301
New York City New York 10001

Country

United States

Main Telephone

212-627-0444

Joined OneWorld

20.06.1999

Features

Forgetting the 'Fair' in 'Free Trade'

04.04.2008 The proposed U.S. free trade agreement with Colombia will have a number of negative repercussions for the South American nation, such as worsening rural poverty, fueling armed conflict and drug trafficking, and exacerbating climate change, says Yifat Susskind.

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Related topics/regions: [United States] [Colombia]

Women Working Against Climate Change, Violence [video]

05.02.2008 Listen to women's rights and UN delegates discuss the effect climate change has on women and discover a village in rural Kenya that is run by women and has banned gender-based violence.

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Related topics/regions: [Kenya]

Image: © MADRE

Perspectives Magazine: Gender Matters

Politics, Not Culture, Explains Iraq Women Killings

14.01.2008 "US media generally portray violence against Iraqi women as an unfortunate part of Arab or Muslim 'culture,'" but this explanation of the unusually high female death toll in Basra ignores the reality that the US occupation has actually empowered fundamentalist Islamic factions in the region, says an international women's rights group.

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Related topics/regions: [Iraq]

Latest Coverage: Iraq

Perspectives Magazine: Gender Matters

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