LatinaLista  — Campaign:  Women Across Frontiers & MADRE – International Fundraising Initiative   Displaced by extremist violence, women-headed households are now flooding central and southern Iraq. They need humanitarian aid, shelter and resources to rebuild their lives. The Organization of…

By Cassandra Atlas MADRE The stage is set for a new round of peace talks to begin in the seemingly intractable internal armed conflict that has gripped Colombia for nearly fifty years. In the fifth attempt since the 1980s,…

Mary Liepold Peace X Peace Here’s the data. Costa Rica ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the international women’s bill of rights, in 1986, and its Optional Protocol in 2001. (The US…