Human Rights Advocacy
MADRE's human rights advocacy program works to make international law relevant and accountable to the people it is meant to serve. MADRE brings women who work for social change at the community level into the process of creating and improving international law by providing training and opportunities for women to advocate for their rights in local, national and international arenas. These trainings enable MADRE's sister organizations to infuse local human rights struggles with the power of international law and hold their governments accountable to international human rights standards. Conversely, the participation of community-based women's human rights activists in the international arena ensures that the perspectives and needs of women and families in the global South are incorporated into international laws and processes. MADRE also serves as a bridge between our sister organizations so they can join forces on international campaigns and exchange ideas and strategies to strengthen their work for social justice in their home countries.
MADRE Articles
- Violence Against Women: Sixteen Ways Women are Fighting Back
- Rule of Law, Not Martial Law: MADRE Urges Defense of Civil Society in Pakistan
- MADRE Partner Condemned to Death by Jihadist Group
- MADRE Representatives' Statements at Hearings on UN Reform and the Millennium Development Goals
- MADRE Critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals
- Letter to Bush Opposing Restrictions on US Funding to Combat HIV/AIDS and Trafficking
- MADRE Comments on the Secretary-General Report "In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for all"
- Questions for John Bolton at his Confirmation Hearing
- International Indigenous Women's Forum Declaration
- Indigenous Women Beyond the Ten-Year Review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: A Resolution
- Bush Dispatches Right-Wing Radicals to UN, World Bank
- Sexual Rights are Human Rights: A MADRE Position Paper
- The Millennium Development Goals: Obstacles and Opportunities
- Beijing + 10: Priorities and Perspectives on the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
- Beyond Beijing: Some Priorities for the Global Women's Movement
- 20 Years of Women's Human Rights Action
- MADRE Representative to Human Rights Commission Murdered
- War on Terror or War on Women? A MADRE Submission to the UN Commission on Human Rights
- Practical Implications of International Human Rights Law
- Indigenous Women and International Law
- Setting the Record Straight: Durban and Beyond!
- International Human Rights Instruments Relevant to Indigenous Peoples
- International Human Rights Instruments