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Confronting Violence against Women and Children

Despite important advances in law and social norms, the world remains gripped by an epidemic of violence whose primary targets are women and children. MADRE's programs confront multiple forms of violence, recognizing that freedom from violence is both a fundamental human right and a pre-condition to exercising other human rights.

MADRE Articles

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• Violence Against Women: Sixteen Ways Women are Fighting Back

• The Murder of Du'a Aswad

• Murder in the Name of 'Honor'

• Working to End Violence against Indigenous Women

• MADRE Condemns Attack on Transvestite Sex Workers in Guatemala

• Violence Against Women in Iraq: A MADRE Factsheet

• Violence Against Women in Latin America: A MADRE Position Paper

• Violence Against Women in Latin America

• Demanding Justice: Rape and Reconciliation in Rwanda

Other News and Views

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• Finding cures for major illnesses at risk due to biodiversity loss, UN warns (UN News)
• UN Peer Reviews 'Neglecting' Reproductive Rights (OneWorld.net)
• The Cost of Nicaragua's Total Abortion Ban (Kate Seelye, Frontline-World Dispatches)
• Lifting the Global Gag Rule on Day One (Deborah Orrick, The Huffington Post)
• Kenya: Displaced women "still facing threat of sexual violence" (IRIN News)
• HIV/Aids: a war on women (Alice Welbourn, openDemocracy)

More Women's Health News and Views or General News and Views.