US Policy

From military support of notorious human rights offenders to economic and political agendas that prioritize corporate greed over human need, US policy has violated women's human rights and exacerbated poverty, food insecurity, public health crises and political violence around the world. MADRE communicates the stories and perspectives of women and families from around the world who confront violence, poverty and repression generated by US policies. MADRE also educates and mobilizes people in the US to demand alternatives to destructive US policies and to hold the US accountable to international law.

MADRE Articles

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• "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week": Conscripting Feminism into the War on Terror

• The Globalization of Hunger

• Report vs. Reality: What General Petraeus Didn't Say

• Neoliberal Jihadist at the World Bank

• It's Not Just an Abortion Ban: The Christian Right's Global Agenda

• US must help end tyranny against Iraqi women

• Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq

• Iraqi Police Commit Rape—Armed, Trained, and Funded by the US

• Beyond the Surge: Demanding an End to Bush's War

• US in Africa: Partnership or Pillage?

• The Iraq Debate: Looking for a Few Good Principles

• Abstaining from Greed and Dogma: The AIDS Policy We Should Call for in 2007

• Nicaraguans Cast Votes against US Intervention

• What's So Liberal About Neoliberalism?

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

• Murder in the Name of 'Honor'

• MADRE Stands with Immigrants' Call for Justice

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

• State of the Union 2006: George's Big Nothing

• "Misery in the Name of Democracy": The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti

• Architecture of a Failing State

• African Women Confront Bush's AIDS Policy

• Top 10 Reasons Why Latin American Women Oppose Bush's Free Trade Agenda

• A Reality Check on Bush's Speech to the UN World Summit

• Gutting the World Summit

• US Trades Iraqi Women's Rights for Exit Strategy (A MADRE Opinion Piece)

• US Must Stop Iraqi Women's Rights from Unraveling (A MADRE Opinion Piece)

• What the G8 Said/What Women Demand

• Bombings in London, Misery in Africa: Progressive Alternatives for a World in Crisis

• Questions for John Bolton at his Confirmation Hearing

• Bush Dispatches Right-Wing Radicals to UN, World Bank

• Elections, But No Democracy

• Confronting the Bush Agenda: Reasserting Women's Human Rights

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

• War on Terror or War on Women? A MADRE Submission to the UN Commission on Human Rights

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

• Policing the Millennium: US Intervention in the Age of Human Rights

• Women's Health in a Sick World

• Adjusting to Empire

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

• Talking with Friends and Family About Iraq

• "Free Societies Do Not Intimidate by Cruelty and Conquest" and Other Great Quotes from Bush's Big Speech to the UN

• Bush's War: The Fall-Out on Women and Families

• A MADRE Interview with Noam Chomsky

• New US-Cuba Policies

Additional Resources

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• Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World’s Oil (Foreign Policy in Focus)
• Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving? (Arundhati Roy, The Hindu)
• Paint by Numbers: Trends in U.S. Military Programs with Latin America & Challenges to Oversight (Latin American Working Group, Center for International Policy, Washington Office on Latin America)
• Colombia Quagmire: Time for U.S. Policy Overhaul (Virginia M. Bouvier, September 2003, Americas Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center)
• Old Domino’s New Clothes (Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
• Rouge States Embrace: The Bush - Sharon Conference (Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies)
• On Family Planning, US v. Much of the World: De-emphasis on Contraception Runs Contrary to Global Goals (Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor)
• ‘Compassionate Conservatism' Comes to Africa (Salih Booker & Ann-Louise Colgan, Africa Action)
• Who Removed Aristide? Paul Farmer Reports From Haiti (London Review of Books)
• Left Behind: The False "Hand-Overs" of Iraq and Saddam Hussein (Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies)