Armed Conflict and Forced Displacement

MADRE programs address the exploitation of child soldiers, the use of rape as a weapon of war and the impact of militarization and forced displacement on women and families. MADRE programs offer trauma counseling for women and youth, protection from domestic and political violence and critical health care and education services for those who have been forced to flee their homes. And MADRE offers trainings that empower women to hold their governments accountable to national and international humanitarian and human rights law.

MADRE Articles

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• Iraq's Other War: Violence against Women Under US Occupation

• The Iraq Debate: Looking for a Few Good Principles

• War on Civilians: A MADRE Guide to the Middle East Crisis

• MADRE Calls for Protection of Civilians as Violence Escalates in Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza

• MADRE Calls for Immediate Halt to Israeli Invasion of Gaza

• Update on the Crisis in Darfur (June, 2006)

• Iraq Violence Demands UN Response: MADRE Calls for International Peacekeepers

• Hamas Takes Over: A MADRE Q & A

• Home as a Woman's Human Right

• The Reconfigured Occupation: Gaza Disengagement Will Not Ease Suffering for Palestinian Women and Families

• A Vote for Freedom or for Occupation?

• Elections, But No Democracy

• Some Notes on the Crisis in Darfur

• Generations of Hardship

• One Year Later: Women's Human Rights in "Liberated" Iraq

• Abducting Democracy: A MADRE Statement on Haiti's 33rd Coup d'Etat

• MADRE Op-Ed: Women's Human Rights in Iraq

• Ten Reasons to Oppose US Militarization of Aid and Reconstruction in Iraq

• Talking with Friends and Family About Iraq

• Colombia's Conflict: The Basics

• Background Resource: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• The Role of Israeli Settler Violence in the Current Crisis

• The Crisis of Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return

Additional Resources

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• Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict
• You’ll Learn Not to Cry: Child Combatants in Colombia (Human Rights Watch)
• Colombia's War on Children (Watchlist on Children in Armed Conflict)
• Rape as a Tool of War: A Fact Sheet (Amnesty International)
• Refugees and Internally Displaced (WHRnet)
• Internal Displacement in the Americas (The Global IDP [Internally Displaced Persons] Project)
• Colombia Reports (The Global IDP Project)
• Resisting Forced Displacement: The Campaign to Stop Israel's Apartheid Wall (Robyn Long, Grassroots International)