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MADRE in the News

  • Media miss G8's role in planting the seeds of the food crisis (WIMN's Voices Blog, July 11, 2008)
  • Interview with Yifat Susskind, MADRE Communications Director (GRITtv with Laura Flanders, July 10, 2008)
  • Blog Entry on Iraqi Women (TAPPED, the American Prospect Blog, June 12, 2008)
  • Food Policies Leave People Hungry (Real Women, Real Voices, June 6, 2008)
  • Solving the global food crisis starts with women's rights (The Progressive Media Project, June 3, 2008)
  • Today, Honor Mothers World-Wide (AlterNet, May 11, 2008)
  • Día de la MADRE: In Celebration of Mothers around the Globe (WorldPulse Magazine, reprinted from MotherVerse Magazine, May 5, 2008)
  • Food Crisis Adds to Women's Burden in Asia (OneWorld US, April 30, 2008)
  • Working for Women around the World (NEED Magazine, April 15, 2008)
  • The US-Colombia Unfair Trade Agreement: Just Say No! (TruthOut, April 2, 2008)
  • Iraqi Women Resist the Occupation: Will Progressives Stand With Them? (CounterPunch, March 19, 2008)
  • World's Garbage Recyclers Meet in Colombia (OneWorld US, March 5, 2008)
  • March Madness of a Different Kind (Grand Rapids Independent Media, March 3, 2008)
  • The ABCs of Death: Bush vs. Africa's Women (CounterPunch, February 22, 2008)
  • There's no surge in freedom for Iraqi women in Basra (Louisville Courier-Journal, February 14, 2008)
  • Valentine's Pledge from Jewelry Sellers (Yahoo! News, February 12, 2008)
  • Gender Rethink Urged for Embattled Kenya (OneWorld US, February 10, 2008)
  • Inequality, Not Identity, Fuels Violence in Kenya (ZNet, February 7, 2008)
  • Facebook-Led Peace Protests Draw Millions (Yahoo! News, February 5, 2008)
  • Who is Killing the Women of Basra? (ZNet, January 10, 2008)
  • US in Africa: Partnership or Pillage? (Biddho, January 8, 2008)
  • Interview with MADRE Communications Director Yifat Susskind on Violence against Women in Iraq (UN Radio, January 4, 2008)
  • Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Crisis: Their Stories from the UN Conference in Bali (The Women's International Perspective, January 4, 2008)
  • Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq (State of Nature, January 2008)
  • Women's eNews' Top 10 Stories of 2007 (Women's eNews, December 29, 2007)
  • New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change (Common Dreams, December 19, 2007)
  • Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations, 2007 Edition (The Nation, December 13, 2007)
  • Interview with MADRE Media Coordinator Diana Duarte on Climate Change Conference in Bali (KPFA Morning Show, December 11, 2007)
  • Indigenous Peoples Shut Out of Climate Talks, Plans (OneWorld, December 11, 2007)
  • UN Marks Human Rights Day with New Campaign (OneWorld, December 10, 2007)
  • Online Video Interview with MADRE Media Coordinator Diana Duarte on Climate Change Conference in Bali (OneWorld, December 4, 2007)
  • Interview with MADRE Communications Director Yifat Susskind on Climate Change Conference in Bali (KPFA Morning Show, December 3, 2007)
  • Tourism Treading on Indigenous Land, Says Rights Group (Yahoo! News, November 13, 2007)
  • Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change (In These Times, November 8, 2007)
  • Feed People, Not Cars: We Need a Moratorium on Agrofuels (OneWorld U.S., November 1, 2007)
  • 11 Solutions to Halting the Environmental Crisis (AlterNet, October 31, 2007)
  • Murder in the Name of Honor (Satire and Comment, October 31, 2007)
  • Conscripting Feminism into the War on Terror (CounterPunch, October 26, 2007)
  • Killing for "Honor" - and Control of Women (RH Reality Check, October 26, 2007)
  • MADRE Interviewed on WBAI Evening News on Agrofuels (WBAI, October 25, 2007)
  • The Globalization of Hunger (Common Dreams, October 16, 2007)
  • Right Behind (Foreign Policy in Focus, October 15, 2007)
  • Annotate This: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Foreign Policy in Focus, October 5, 2007)
  • Bush Taken to Task for Sidestepping Global Efforts on Climate Change (OneWorldUS, September 28, 2007)
  • Little Disturbances, Enormous Changes (The Nation, September 18, 2007)
  • Felix-Affected Communities Get Sustainable Relief (OneWorld US, September 14, 2007)
  • Facts Belie Petraeus' Case, Say Humanitarian Groups (OneWorld US, September 14, 2007)
  • UN Adopts Historic Statement on Native Rights (Yahoo! News, September 13, 2007)
  • Who Does U.S. Food Aid Benefit? (In These Times, September 12, 2007)
  • Interview with MADRE Executive Director Vivian Stromberg on Hurricane Felix (Counterpoint with Scott Harris, WPKN, September 10, 2007)
  • Interview with MADRE Executive Director Vivian Stromberg on Hurricane Damage in Nicaragua (Wake Up Call with Mario Murrillo, WBAI, September 7, 2007)
  • Nicaraguans Survey Hurricane's Wreckage (New York Times, September 6, 2007)
  • Hurricane Felix's First Responders (CounterPunch, ZNet, Portside, Common Dreams, September 6, 2007)
  • Peru's Remote Areas Getting Less Aid (Yahoo! News, August 22, 2007)
  • Indigenous Women's Pushback (Foreign Policy in Focus, May 25, 2007)
  • 'You can come upon women's bodies anywhere' (The Guardian, May 18, 2007)
  • 'Democracy' Is Hell (The Nation, May 10, 2007)
  • An "honor killing" in Iraq, captured by cellphone (Salon, May 8, 2007)
  • The Talibanization of Iraq (Ms. Magazine, Spring 2007)
  • U.S. Strategy Undermined Iraq's Women (Yahoo! News, March 10, 2007)
  • New Report on Gender Violence in Iraq (Uprising Radio, KPFK, March 8, 2007)
  • Women Suffer Untold Violence and Repression in U.S.-Occupied Iraq (Between the Lines, March 7, 2007)
  • Women's Lives Unraveling in Occupied Iraq (Inter Press Service, March 7, 2007)
  • Human Rights Group Signals Iraq is becoming a Theocracy (Free Speech Radio News, March 7, 2007)
  • Iraq's Other War: Violence against Women Under US Occupation (CommonDreams, March 7, 2007)
  • Rights Group Lashes U.S. on Status of Iraq Women (Women's eNews, March 6, 2007
  • MADRE report on gender-based violence in Iraq: Yifat Susskind and Houzan Mahmoud interviewed (Democracy NOW!, March 6, 2007)
  • U.S. must help end tyranny against Iraqi women (The Progressive Media Project, March 5, 2007)
  • Climate-Change Victims Chip Away U.S. Procrastination (The New Standard, March 1, 2007)
  • Violating Iraqi Women (TomPaine.com, February 22, 2007)
  • World AIDS Day: Yifat Susskind interviewed on Counterspin (FAIR, December 8, 2006)
  • Middle East Crisis: Vivian Stromberg Interviewed on Voices of Resistance (Women's Media Center, August 7, 2006)
  • Middle East Crisis: Yifat Susskind on KPFA's Sunday Salon (KPFA Radio, July 16, 2006)
  • Middle East Crisis: Lebanon: 7 Media Workers Injured (Yahoo! News, July 15, 2006
  • Middle East Crisis: Yifat Susskind interviewed by Aaron Glantz, KPFA Evening News (KPFA Radio, July 14, 2006)
  • Charity's Barrier Island: U.S. restrictions hamper nonprofit efforts in Cuba (Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 18, 2006)
  • Interview with Yifat Susskind and Yanar Mohammed on the current situation in Iraq (Sprouts Radio, May 11, 2006)
  • Women's Groups Differ Over Immigration Strategy (Women's eNews, April 26, 2006)
  • Saddam Better for Women (IPS News, March 29, 2006)
  • Interview with Yifat Susskind on violence against women in Iraq (Sprouts Radio, March 8, 2006)
  • The Guatemala connection: Impoverished nation the root of human trafficking (Naples News, January 30, 2006)
  • Communications Director Yifat Susskind interviewed about the Palestinian elections (INN World Report, January 25, 2006)
  • U.S. Women Host House Parties for Iraqi Women (Chicago Public Radio Global Activism Series, December 1, 2005)
  • Devastated by Mudslides, Guatemalan Villagers Refuse Military Aid Remembering 1990 Army Massacre (Democracy Now!, October 11th, 2005)
  • Secular freedoms in jeopardy (Toronto Star, October 16, 2005)
  • Can old foes set aside strife? (Toronto Star, October 12, 2005)
  • Sunila Abeysekera, Executive Director of INFORM, MADRE's partner organization in Sri Lanka, and Yifat Susskind, MADRE's Associate Director interviewed about the World Summit (WBAI Wake-up Call, September 16, 2005)
  • A Reality Check on Bush's Speech to the UN World Summit (CommonDreams.org, September 16, 2005)
  • Gutting the World Summit: Bush Betrays Poor Women Again (Foreign Policy in Focus, September 13, 2005)
  • Iraq's Second-Class Citizens (TomPaine.com, August 18, 2005)
  • Protecting women's rights in Iraq (Detroit Free Press, August 10, 2005)
  • Interview with MADRE Executive Director Vivian Stromberg (The Majority Report, August 10, 2005)
  • Draft of New Iraqi Constitution Would Roll Back Women's Rights: An Interview with Yifat Susskind (Between the Lines, August 1, 2005)
  • Iraq's own "created equal", (NPR's Marketplace, July 20, 2005)
  • MADRE Executive Director Vivian Stromberg featured in New York Newsday for Mother's Day (May 7, 2005)