tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2788401684179324912012-02-28T07:09:46.373-05:00Women, Peace, and SecurityCalling for an end to Sexual Violence in Conflict and Women's Involvement in Building Bridges of Peace Globally!Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.comBlogger1871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-44599487010903769482012-02-28T07:09:00.000-05:002012-02-28T07:09:46.380-05:00Annual UN Report on Sexual Violence in Conflict Launched The United Nations recently launched the first annual report documenting sexual violence in conflict around the globe. In the report the UN names some of the military forces and armed groups that are suspected to be the worst offenders. Some of the groups listed are the Lord's Resistance Army (the Central African Republic and South Sudan), armed rebel groups and former armed forces in Côte d’Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-47120243531984651982012-02-24T05:11:00.003-05:002012-02-24T05:15:39.067-05:00Fawzia Koofi want's to become Afghanistan's first woman president
Fawzia Koofi, a former UN official and since 2005 an elected MP, is the Afghan parliament's first female deputy speaker. Koofi who is fighting for the rights of Afghan women is a role model for a new generation of Afghans. She is determined, brave, and full of ideas on how to transform Afghanistan into a modern society. Her goal is to become president. To some that goal might sound unthinkable Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-47307539246009608742012-02-20T06:45:00.006-05:002012-02-20T06:52:47.264-05:00Lt. Col. Moussa Camara is Charged with Mass Rapes and Killings in Guinea
Recently a Guinean court filed charges against Lt. Col. Moussa Camara for his alleged role in mass rapes and killings after security forces opened fire on protesters in 2009. Lt. Col. Moussa Camara is the highest ranking official charged in the attacks on demonstrators gathered in a Conakry stadium to protest the military rule in the country at the time. As a result of the violence 150 people Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-22321306792055974832012-02-20T05:41:00.006-05:002012-02-20T06:59:26.289-05:00Save the Congo Event - The Vagina MonologuesSave the Congo featuring Miss Congo UK 2011 is organizing an event with the performance of Eve Ensler infamous, witty and funny play: the Vagina Monologues, followed by Cheese & Wine Reception, on Friday, March 9th 2012, 7.30pm, at the Human Rights Action Centre in London.
"Tickets are £5 and all proceeds will go to Save the Congo and V-Day 2012 Spotlight. The Vagina Monologues is based on Eve Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-14519724528002749012012-02-20T05:11:00.003-05:002012-02-20T06:58:20.981-05:00Join V-day's One Billion Rising!
V-day have launched a fantastic new campaign called One Billion Rising. The campaign raises awareness about the fact that 1 billion women in the world is abused in their lifetime and am calling for an end to violence.
"There are 7 billion people on the planet. Half are women. One third of them are raped or beaten. V-Day refuses to watch as more than one billion women experience violence. V-DayEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-86544837000077372632012-02-13T10:10:00.000-05:002012-02-13T10:10:55.031-05:00Gloria Steinem's Outrage; a Source of Inspiration for the Newly Founded Women Under Siege Project
This week the Guardian feautres an article about Gloria Steinem and the Women Under Siege Project. The Guardian writes that Steinem is outraged by the amount of time it has taken to recognize sexual violence as a weapon of war and rightly so. Just over a year ago a book fully documenting the extent of sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust was published (Sexual Violence Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-39526397915786065202012-02-10T12:26:00.000-05:002012-02-10T12:26:45.094-05:00Women Agents of Change to Follow in the Arab World
CNN have listed 8 women to follow in the Arab world who are breaking with tradition and am actively taking part in the Arab uprisings. These women represent a new generation of Arab women who want their voices to be heard and are not content to stay on the sidelines. These women are in many ways the future of the Arab world. One of the women Manal al Sharif from Saudi Arabia says: "We're half Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-70097292935281288192012-02-06T19:13:00.004-05:002012-02-06T19:16:54.725-05:00Panzi Hospital: On the Front Line of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Today Gender Across Borders published my article "Panzi Hospital: On the Front Line of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence." I wrote the article to raise awareness about the amazing work of Dr Denis Mukwege and his staff at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Whenever I feel disillusionized with the actions and sometimes the lack thereof of the Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-78543884511563358522012-02-03T10:21:00.001-05:002012-02-03T10:22:26.338-05:00City of Joy in Bukavu Celebrates First Graduating Class
On the 28th of January, V-day and the Foundation Panzi celebrated the first graduating class of Jity of Joy in Bukav, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Last year City of Joy opened its doors to the pilot class of 42 women, who for six months took part in a gender-violence survivors programme.
As part of the program in Bukavu, gender violence survivors took part in activities such as group Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-51352378879059451082012-02-02T07:05:00.004-05:002012-02-02T07:09:01.771-05:00Women, Peace, and Security in the News:
Louise Arbour: "Tamils await their peace dividend"
"For Tamils, the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war has brought no peace dividend; for Tamil women, peace has brought with it a continuation – and in some cases an intensification – of violence and insecurity. In the country’s predominantly Tamil-speaking north and east – a region half the size of Nova Scotia – tens of thousands of “war widows” have Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-30077909709522271912012-01-29T11:59:00.001-05:002012-01-29T12:00:24.197-05:00VIDEO: Harvard University Seminar on Why Women Won the Nobel Peace Prize
"With the recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to three women leaders, policymakers are beginning to acknowledge that women are essential to peace and security. Six women leaders from Israel, Palestine, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan--describe how they mobilize for an end to violent conflict. Hear firsthand how women are waging peace within their communities and across Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-12942894622152708202012-01-29T11:33:00.001-05:002012-01-29T11:34:14.619-05:00Connect to Women's Causes and Advocacy Pages with the New Women Connect App!
Facebook have launched the Women Connect app to raise awareness and empower women: facebook.com/womenconnect. On the page it says:
" Facebook is proud to play a part in helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by raising awareness around issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment. By building technology that allows people to easily connect and share, we are helping women’s Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-2640627725533800182012-01-24T10:52:00.003-05:002012-01-24T11:45:29.391-05:00The Swedish Armed Forces Opens the First Centre for Gender in Military Operations of its Kind
In recent years, Sweden have increased its efforts in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security as well as related resolutions when it comes to military operations. The Centre for Gender in Military Operations will work to enhance implementation and capacity building through training and education. The content will mainly be derived from lessons Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-71520602655223285912012-01-22T13:42:00.001-05:002012-01-22T13:43:16.780-05:00Women News Network: "CONGO: Discussion groups help male youth work to prevent violence against women"
"(WNN) KINSHASA, DRC: As paramilitary violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues with the absence of much of the western world’s media coverage, United Nations Children’s Fund – UNICEF is helping to bring ‘child-friendly’ spaces to adolescents who have been displaced. Many Congolese youth have experienced, seen or have had loved ones directly affected by violence. Working Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-46763687195770521832012-01-22T12:07:00.007-05:002012-01-23T06:41:37.749-05:00The Invisible War - Sexual Violence in the U.S Army Exposed
When we think of sexual violence in war, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Liberia, or Colombia etc often comes to mind, seldom do we consider it a "western" problem. Research in recent years and the the documentary film the Invisible War forces us to rethink sexual violence in conflict. It is not "just" a problem affecting civilians, it is rampant among the U.S. military forces as well.Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-89901856112864744282012-01-22T09:07:00.000-05:002012-01-22T09:07:40.059-05:00Don't Miss the Human Rights Watch 2012 World ReportThis 22nd annual Human Rights Watch World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. This report is a great resource on women's human rights and gender issues. The report can be downloaded or purchased here: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/01/22/world-report-2012 Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-11035631980835455772012-01-18T14:16:00.001-05:002012-01-18T14:18:01.237-05:00Join the " Join Me on the Bridge" Movement; Organize your own Event for International Women's Day on March the 8th 2012!
Last year, hundreds of people decided to host their own Join me on the Bridge campaign; from two to 200, to 2000 people strong, they organized powerful, fun and inspiring events to honour women in conflict areas. Hundreds of events took place around the globe from New York to Kigali last year. Let's make this year even bigger! Support women in war by organizing your own event for International Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-37518373036586474992012-01-15T12:00:00.001-05:002012-01-15T12:01:34.796-05:00Join the Association for Women's Rights in Development in Istanbul on April 19-22, 2012 at the 12th AWID International Forum
"The AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development is both a conference and a call to action. The largest recurring event of its kind, the AWID Forum brings together women’s rights leaders and activists from around the world every three to four years to strategize, network, celebrate, and learn in a highly charged atmosphere that fosters deep discussions and sustained personal and Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-63323066706203792502012-01-15T11:51:00.001-05:002012-01-15T11:51:43.021-05:00Video with Kinda Mohamadieh on "Women in the MENA Region Post-Arab Spring"
Kinda Mohamadieh talks about the issues facing women in the MENA region after the Arab Spring. The video is part of a series of short interviews produced by AWID in the lead up to the 12th AWID International Forum, in Istanbul, Turkey. Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-77290639932772074002012-01-15T11:17:00.001-05:002012-01-15T11:18:56.752-05:00Margot Wallström: "When Protectors Turn Predators. Army Reforms Needed to Counter Sexual Violence in the Congo"
“A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman.” Those were the words of one distraught young woman whom I met in Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2010. As the world was once again outraged at the reports of mass rapes in early June 2011 in the DRC’s South Kivu, her words came back to me. Those attacks marked the fourth incident in a series of mass rapes which took Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-49914894366935182272012-01-15T09:57:00.003-05:002012-01-15T10:06:51.169-05:00Sahar Gul and Nujood Ali - The Faces of Child Marriage
Earlier this month Sahar Gul, a 15-year-old Afghan girl spoke out for the first time since her rescue, saying she hopes her husband and his family will be jailed for tortureing her for months. Sahar Gul became the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan after she was rescued from an arranged marriage in December when an uncle contacted the police.
Sahar Gul's story of an Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-40674821995686533232012-01-15T07:50:00.002-05:002012-01-15T07:54:38.480-05:00CBS Video: "Women Hold the Key to Peace after War"
"In 1993, Iraqi-American Zainab Salbi founded Women for Women International, an organization that trains female survivors of war how to earn a living and how to fight for their rights. Russ Mitchell speaks with Salbi, who explains how women are the key to establishing peace in war zones."(CBS)Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-49287918417996770492012-01-11T12:42:00.000-05:002012-01-11T12:42:21.931-05:00Support the Women of Libya, Sign the Women4Libya Petition Now!
The petition is a initiative by the LCSO (Libyan Civil Society Organisation) that focuses on giving Libyan women a voice and ensuring their participation in the reconciliation process and within the political, social and economical sectors of Libyan society. Leaving women out of the public domain remains one of the most challenging aspects facing the future of a new Libya. To exclude women in Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-83066602105743021422012-01-08T14:03:00.000-05:002012-01-08T14:03:24.323-05:00International Crisis Group Report on the Insecurity for Women in Sri Lanka's Predominantly Tamil-Speaking North and East
"Women in Sri Lanka’s predominantly Tamil-speaking north and east are facing a desperate lack of security in the aftermath of the long civil war. Today many still live in fear of violence from various sources. Those who fall victim to it have little means of redress. Women’s economic security is precarious, and their physical mobility is limited. The heavily militarised and centralised controlEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-4950610454482061022012-01-08T06:21:00.003-05:002012-01-08T06:24:54.577-05:00Women, Peace, and Security in the News: Reuters: "Afghan girls throw punches, aim for Olympic gold" "Teenage Afghan sisters Shabnam and Sadaf Rahimi are taking the fight for women's rights more literally than most of their peers, throwing punches in a ring as members of their country's first team of female boxers." Read the article here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/02/us-afghanistan-boxing-idUSTRE80104320120102
Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-31311276608161589902012-01-08T05:55:00.000-05:002012-01-08T05:55:45.873-05:00Video on the Erosion of the Rights of Women in Iraq - the Glue that Holds Society Together
Watch Voice of America's Interview with Women for Women International program participants in Iraq on the situation for women and the erosion of their rights here.Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-432702051743210372012-01-06T05:54:00.001-05:002012-01-06T05:55:52.261-05:00Words of wisdom from Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a remarkable woman, having dedicated her life to the struggle for peace, democracy, and human rights in Burma. She is a testament to what women can achieve and the power of conviction. In 1991 she recieved the Nobel Peace Price for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. Here are some of her words of wisdom:
“In societies where men are truly confident of Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-71332776060212526192012-01-06T05:21:00.000-05:002012-01-06T05:21:52.042-05:00Interview with Eve Ensler on her struggle to end violence against women
"Who could have predicted what an effect a group of women talking about vaginas would have. Fifteen years ago, Eve Ensler, then a moderately successful New York playwright, opened the play she had been writing for two years, The Vagina Monologues. Drawing on interviews she had done with more than 200 women, the resulting monologues - delivered, over the years, by actors including Meryl Streep, Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-48170605441082095602011-12-31T05:47:00.006-05:002011-12-31T05:57:56.114-05:002011 - A Year of Progress and Hope
Dear readers,
At the Nobel Peace Concert earlier this month Liberian singer Miatta Fahnbulleh sang these words:“The road will be muddy and rough, but we will get there, it will be hard, but we will get there, we know we will.”
I think these words sums up 2011, yes the road is still muddy and rough, but this year we saw people across the globe rising up and speaking out in a way that would Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-42288141685867770532011-12-26T17:02:00.007-05:002011-12-28T00:15:41.928-05:00This week in the news
Center for American Progress: "Rape and the Arab Spring"
"The Middle East is undergoing a profound and dramatic political transformation. But the analysis of the scope, pace, and quality of this change has focused largely on the quality and results of initial elections in countries such as Tunisia and Egypt. Unfortunately, this sort of analysis overlooks how these transitions are affecting Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-77430070961908958102011-12-26T05:47:00.002-05:002011-12-26T05:50:03.226-05:00Don't miss V-Day's V-Men Column, where men speak out about violence against women and girls"Last summer, when Eve Ensler asked me to write something about violence against women -- from a male perspective -- I went to my desk feeling skeptical, and not at all sure that I had anything significant to say on the subject. Although I had grown up in a house where female molestations of various kinds happened on a regular basis, and had spent a good deal of my adult life (and therapist's Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-75601077014553721482011-12-26T05:31:00.000-05:002011-12-26T05:31:06.166-05:00Million Women Rise needs volunteers for its 2012 march to protest violence against women globally
On the March 3rd 2012, Million Women Rise will organize a march in London to protest violence against women globally. Million Women Rise needs volunteers to help organise and publicise the march. In particular, they are looking for women to help as:
Stewards
Team leaders
Fundraisers
Flyer distributors
If you would like to get involved, email: mwrstewards@hotmail.co.uk or phone 07553 373 105Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-32854579976544272132011-12-26T05:15:00.002-05:002011-12-26T17:03:45.001-05:00Why should men care? Matt Damon, narrator of the PBS series Women, War, and Peace on why women's situation in war should matter to men too
In recent years the lived reality of women in war have received unprecedented media attention and more and more people are getting involved in the fight against sexual violence in conflict and to support women as changemakers actively taking part in peace processes and peace operations. Nevertheless, the vast majority of those getting involved are women. In the summer I attended a conference Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-40094377319502652902011-12-19T14:55:00.000-05:002011-12-19T14:55:48.686-05:00Video: One Woman's Story; Changeing the World One Woman at a Time...
"Suddenly soldiers were forcing the door down. There were eight of them, two of them raped me in front of my children. I was kept there fro seven months, seven months of sex slavery. [...] When I got home my husband rejected me." Nbintu, programme participant in the Congo." (Women for Women International) Watch Women for Women International's video "One Woman's Story" and support their work!
Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-37053737131057300312011-12-18T16:10:00.002-05:002011-12-18T16:14:42.671-05:00This Week in the News
The Express Tribune: "Horrors of sexual abuse in conflict-stricken FATA"
"Kashmala Bibi says her cousin’s breasts were cut into pieces when five militants walked into their house and saw the woman breastfeeding her child. One of the insurgents then asked the other women around to eat the pieces. This is one of the many tales of horror recorded in a report titled “Impact of crisis on women andEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-91155803551093039972011-12-18T15:45:00.001-05:002011-12-18T16:16:40.854-05:00Quote of the Week: Romeo Dallaire, former UNAMIR Force Commander, on sexual violence during the Rwandan genocide"I don’t know when I began to clearly see the evidence of another crime besides murder among the bodies in the ditches and the mass graves. I know that for a long time I sealed away from my mind all the signs of this crime, instructing myself not to recognize what was there in front of me. The crime was rape, on a scale that deeply affected me… For a long time I completely wiped the death masks Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-81450012830533532332011-12-14T17:07:00.007-05:002011-12-14T17:33:15.123-05:00The Girl Effect - "I Dare You"
"Little research has been done to understand how investments in girls impact economic growth and the health and well-being of communities. This lack of data reveals how pervasively girls have been overlooked. For millions of girls across the developing world, there are no systems to record their birth, their citizenship, or even their identity. However, the existing research suggests their Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-38294355707907302512011-12-12T15:45:00.004-05:002011-12-12T15:56:26.974-05:00Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Winning the Nobel Peace Price and Alfred Nobel’s Legacy to Women
Today the New York Times published an article by Africas first female president and recent Nobel Peace Price winner, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Sirleaf Johnson who held a passionate speach at the Nobel cermony in Oslo on Saturday writes:
“Although international tribunals have correctly declared that rape, used as a weapon of war, is a crime against humanity, rapes in times of lawlessness continue Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-11356648046272584672011-12-11T07:18:00.001-05:002011-12-11T07:20:32.670-05:00In the Land of Blood and Honey Opens on the 23rd of December!
“In the Land of Blood and Honey,” which opens on Dec. 23 and is Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut, tells the stories of Ajla, a Bosnian Muslim woman, and Danijel, a Serbian police officer, who meet in Sarajevo just before the war starts. Through them it examines the broader conflict, which killed more than 100,000 people, displaced 2 million more and introduced the term “ethnic cleansing” to Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-37488264030705403562011-12-11T07:00:00.001-05:002011-12-11T07:00:43.515-05:00Women, War, and Peace Podcast: "Sheryl WuDunn on The Greatest Moral Challenge of the Century."
"Journalists are trained to keep their personal opinions out of their stories, to be impartial observers of events. Sheryl WuDunn was one of those journalists. She won the Pulitzer Prize with her husband, Nicholas Kristof, for their coverage of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, while working for The New York Times. Since that time, the couple have become outspoken critics of the human rights Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-84764462253085055952011-12-10T05:53:00.001-05:002011-12-10T05:55:35.388-05:00Today Tawakkol Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Leymah Gbowee will recieve the Nobel Peace Price in Oslo, Norway.
Today the 10th of December, Tawakkol Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Leymah Gbowee will receive the Nobel Peace Price in Oslo, Norway "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building." Karman, Sirleaf, and Gbowee have shown the world that women facing conflict and oppression can rise above the stereotype of women as victimsEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-33125319961637080322011-12-10T05:17:00.001-05:002011-12-10T05:54:22.580-05:00The Women, Peace, and Security Blog can now also be found as a news feed on the Nato Multimedia Library website!
The blog is now up as a news feed on the Nato Multimedia Library website in the LibGuide section on Women, Peace, and Security. The LibGuide is a great research tool with documents, publications, reports, books, articles, links, videos, and blogs on Women, Peace, and Security. To visit the LibGuide on Women, Peace, and Security click here: http://natolibguides.info/womenEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-80549742971872064182011-12-07T17:48:00.003-05:002011-12-07T17:52:35.084-05:00V-day have released its 2011 Annual Report Viva Vevolution!
V-day's 2011 Annual Report Viva Vevolution is now available. The report documents the inspired efforts of activists around the globe who fight to end violence against women and girls. Click here to get to the report: http://www.vday.org/annual-report11/
Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-69185531335473771242011-12-07T16:52:00.002-05:002011-12-07T16:54:57.860-05:00Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns": "Listen to women in a new Afghanistan"
"As a writer, one of my most important responsibilities is listening. I try to do so with an open mind, so I can hear the voices of the characters whose stories I will tell. When I wrote about Afghan women in my second novel, I thought about the brave women I had met in Kabul and about their stories. Their voices came to me in hushed whispers. At times they woke me in the night with the urgency Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-22818326803082338942011-12-07T14:19:00.002-05:002011-12-07T14:58:19.774-05:00Sweeta Noori Talks About the Violence that Hinders Afghan Women
Sweeta Noori, country director for Women for Women International in Afghanistan speaks about some of the problems she says Afghan women face at a recent talk in London. Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-65299686127748584062011-12-07T14:00:00.002-05:002011-12-07T14:06:29.829-05:00Do Not Miss the Central Festival To Combat Violence Against Women in the Gaza Strip!
The 2nd Central Festival To Combat Violence Against Women in the Gaza Strip will take place on Thursday, 8 December 2011, in Gaza City.
Building on the success of last year’s great experience which brought together an audience of more than 1,500 people, the 2nd Festival will propose a wide range of performances and activities to raise the audience awareness of violence against women as a publicEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-86209801455640613962011-12-03T13:52:00.002-05:002011-12-03T13:55:57.522-05:00Weapon of War - Documentary Making at its Best
"…if you want a woman then you can’t control yourself any longer and you go and look for one immediately."
Ilse and Femke Van Velzen's documentary Weapon of War is their second film about sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While their first film focused on the survivors, Weapon of War gives the viewer insights into the systematic and strategic use of sexual violence as a weaponEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-64563979817411780762011-12-01T13:37:00.000-05:002011-12-01T13:37:03.221-05:00"We Can"' (Nous Pouvons) Campaign in DR CongoEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-8794889881603704482011-12-01T13:28:00.001-05:002011-12-01T13:46:12.516-05:00BBC: "Sexual violence in eastern DR Congo - signs of change?"
"During a fairly frenetic trip to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week I spent a couple of hours at the Heal Africa centre in Goma, one of several institutions in the region where victims of sexual violence are treated. The compound was crowded. There was a lot of building work going on and the existing wards looked full. I didn't manage to gather enough information to write a coherentEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-19634765145419229332011-12-01T13:21:00.000-05:002011-12-01T13:21:58.439-05:00UN News Centre: "Syrian forces have committed crimes against humanity – UN rights panel"
Syrian women protesting in May 2011 (UN News Centre)
"Syria’s military and security forces have committed crimes against humanity during their crackdown on protesters, a United Nations-appointed probe said today, urging the Government to immediately end “gross” human rights violations and bring perpetrators to justice. In August the UN Human Rights Council established the Independent Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-85519694315683939752011-11-24T04:55:00.002-05:002011-11-24T05:03:52.816-05:00Today the 25th of November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women!
"In her first message for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, since UN Women became operational earlier this year, Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet outlines a comprehensive policy agenda to end violence against women globally. Focusing on the three critical pillars of prevention, protection and provision of services, Ms. Bachelet’s call for Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-22940660997372853362011-11-21T07:59:00.003-05:002011-11-21T08:13:15.284-05:00Join Say NO - UNiTE for 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women Now!
For the 16 Days of Activism, 2011, Say NO – UNiTE will present 16 actions that you can take, online or offline. You can participate at the events highlighted, or organize your own and post it on www.saynotoviolence.org You can pick as many actions as you like, or take the action of the day!
The facts
Up to 70 percent of women and girls will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abusedEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-48813370271676765162011-11-21T04:34:00.001-05:002011-11-21T04:35:29.358-05:00Colombia Reports:"Horrors of paramilitary sexual violence revealed"
"Hundreds of women were raped and abused by paramilitaries in the AUC's northern bloc between 1997 and 2005, reveals a new report documenting sexual violence in Colombia's Caribbean region. "Women and War: Victims and Resistors in the Colombian Conflict," by Colombia's National Reparation Commission, describes the shocking and systematic sexual violence carried out in the region by paramilitary Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-86950462885029501782011-11-21T04:25:00.000-05:002011-11-21T04:25:52.123-05:00AllAfrica.com : "Sudan: Serial Rape Crimes in West Darfur""Mornei — A series of rape crimes were committed in West Darfur's Mornei region this week, witnesses told Radio Dabanga on Thursday. Two refugee women were raped in Mornei region's Kabiri Valley on Tuesday, one in Aro Valley on the same day and two others in Mornei refugee camp on Monday. In all cases, armed shepherds were accused of the rapes. Radio Dabanga cannot confirm whether all crimes wereEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-5037794383171711692011-11-21T04:19:00.001-05:002011-11-21T04:20:19.434-05:00Quotes of the Week:"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man." ~Margaret Mead
"I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves." ~Mary Wollstonecraft
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~Margaret Mead
Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-47928964845752445162011-11-21T03:54:00.000-05:002011-11-21T03:54:11.225-05:00Women for Women International Supporter Chris Jackson wins Cosmopolitan’s Ultimate Man Award
"Chris Jackson ran 12 marathons in 12 months and took part in the longest kayak race in the world to help women survivors of rape and war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is Chris' speech at the award ceremony:
Thank you very much for this award. I never thought I’d win this, especially when I read that only 3% of cosmo readers said they liked a man with a moustache….
In all Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-56700169269034738912011-11-21T03:45:00.000-05:002011-11-21T03:45:39.007-05:00Upcoming Events!25 November - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Vigil - Organized by Million Woman Rise7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Outside National Gallery, Trafalgar Square - LondonThis is a peaceful candlelit vigil in remembrance of women who have been murdered and affected by male violence in the UK and around the world. It is a sign of resistance to the day to day, hour by hour, minute byEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-27077313480586931212011-11-14T15:24:00.000-05:002011-11-14T15:24:02.170-05:00The Guardian: "DRC's presidential candidates promise to bring peace and improve security"
"Voters treat pre-election pledges by candidates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a degree of scepticism.
The 11 candidates contesting presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo all pledge to improve peace and security in the country – promises received with varying degrees of scepticism by Congolese voters. "Our ambition is to provide our country with 150,000 Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-47086382954132840502011-11-14T15:13:00.000-05:002011-11-14T15:13:37.423-05:00Join the Girl Effect Today!
The most powerful force of change on the planet is a girl. Learn more at http://www.girleffect.org/ and join the movement at www.facebook.com/girleffect.Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-84771500177823112172011-11-13T10:39:00.005-05:002011-11-13T10:50:44.797-05:00"Fighting the Silence" A Story that Needed to be Told
"When you rape a woman, you rape your mother. When you rape a girl, you rape your daughter or sister."
Fighting the Silence is a documentary film by Ilse and Femke van Velzen, which shines light on the widespread and frequent occurrence of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and explores the norms and values that is manifested in rape, and the social consequences the survivorsEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-76885769699929310642011-11-12T12:40:00.002-05:002011-11-12T12:41:34.173-05:00The People's Daily Online:"UN envoys brief Security Council on DRC elections, sexual violence"
Margot Wallström
"UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- UN Chief Ban Ki-moon's special representatives on Tuesday briefed the UN Security Council on the latest developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC), in particular election preparation, security, and violence against women.
Roger Meece, Ban's special representative for the DRC, spoke to reporters outside the Security Council Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-63474089170847152292011-11-12T12:29:00.000-05:002011-11-12T12:29:31.180-05:00The Washington Post: "War crimes court send Bosnian Serb to jail for 18 years for murder and rape"
"SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia’s war crimes court has sentenced a Bosnian Serb to 18 years in jail for the murder and rape of Muslims in a Sarajevo suburb occupied by Serb forces during the 1992-95 war.
The court said Thursday that Sasa Baricanin has participated in the murder of three members of a family and has repeatedly raped a woman he kept locked in an apartment.
The U.N. SpecialEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-61256784242919780522011-11-12T06:39:00.001-05:002011-11-12T06:40:12.238-05:00The Best Text I Ever Read: " Over It" By the Brilliant Eve Ensler:
Eve Ensler founder of V-day
"I am over rape.
I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on Facebook.
I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages with their real names without shame.I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and calling it freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.
I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am over Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-28616806732934711672011-11-07T14:55:00.002-05:002011-11-07T14:57:08.992-05:00The Guardian:"Human trafficking on the rise amid Horn of Africa's drought and famine"
Somali girls in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. According to reports, Somali women and children are being trafficked into Kenya and sold into prostitution. Photograph: Sipa Press/ Rex Features
"Women and children, most fleeing drought and conflict in Somalia, are being trafficked into Kenya and sold into prostitution or forced labour
Amina Shakir (not her real name) fled the drought and famine inEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-88643103486069317662011-11-06T15:46:00.000-05:002011-11-06T15:46:15.837-05:00AlertNet: "Elections won't solve Congo's humanitarian woes - report".
War amputee Jean Claude Benda, 31, stands outside his home with a prosthetic leg at Kiwanja in eastern Congo, August 25, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reillyaption
"LONDON (AlertNet) - This month's elections in Democratic Republic of Congo are unlikely to resolve years of conflict, weak state institutions and a lack of capacity to address people's basic needs, a report from humanitarian researchEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-55698074033243439282011-11-06T15:33:00.002-05:002011-11-06T15:34:39.204-05:00Don't Miss "War Redifined" on PBS, airing on the 8th of November!"The capstone of Women, War & Peace, War Redefined challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain through incisive interviews with leading thinkers, Secretaries of State and seasoned survivors of war and peace-making. Their experiences reveal how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-41282155185461502922011-11-06T15:28:00.000-05:002011-11-06T15:28:44.375-05:00SABC:"Rapes Committed During Libya's Turmoil: ICC"
"The International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor says hundreds of rapes were committed during Libya's recent internal conflict and that his office is investigating.In presenting his report on the ICC’s investigations into crimes against humanity, Luis Moreno-Ocampo also indicated he is examining allegations that crimes were committed on both sides of the conflict, including by NorthEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-74879867261074662212011-11-02T14:09:00.000-04:002011-11-02T14:09:03.980-04:00Watch "The War we are Living" on PBS.org
"If you ask Colombia’s city dwellers and governing political class, they’ll tell you the country’s 40-year-old civil war is over. But The War We Are Living reveals the “other” Colombia, in rural areas far away from the capital, where the war is all too real – and now the battle is over gold. In Cauca, a mountainous region in Colombia’s Pacific southwest, two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-76003303989130422162011-11-02T13:58:00.002-04:002011-11-02T14:09:48.995-04:00Bembatrial.org : "Congolese Soldiers Gang-Raped Women on Central African Ferry."
"Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba’s troops gang-raped women on the ferry that transported them to the Central African Republic (CAR), according to testimony heard today.Cyprien-Francis Ossibouyen, the technician who operated the state-owned ferry that plied the Oubangui river, told the trial that he witnessed a second gang-rape incident at a naval base. He narrated how 22 armed Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-29069824912207886342011-11-02T13:50:00.000-04:002011-11-02T13:50:19.155-04:00Quote of the Day:"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." ~Roseanne BarrEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-4490668485662044562011-11-02T13:42:00.000-04:002011-11-02T13:42:12.408-04:00Sign Womankind's Petition for Afghan Women!
On the 5th of December 2011, representatives from 90 countries are meeting in Bonn, Germany for a conference that will shape Afghanistan’s future.
As the future of Afghanistan is being decided, Afghan women’s organizations are asking the international community to demand that women have an effective voice in the peace process and that women's human rights are upheld in upcoming talks, includingEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-8952122231729972262011-10-30T12:43:00.002-04:002011-10-30T12:47:28.198-04:00UN Women: "UN Security Council Members Debate Progress and Challenges to Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding."
"UN Women calls for robust measures to ensure women’s role in peace processes
United Nations, New York — On the anniversary of the Security Council Resolution 1325, on Women, Peace and Security, the UN Security Council is holding an Open Debate today on the theme of “Women’s Participation and Role in Conflict Resolution and Mediation.” The theme is particularly apt in light of the award this Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-14110927914746519962011-10-30T12:37:00.001-04:002011-10-30T12:38:12.104-04:00Times Live: "African Male Rape Victims Speak, Fight Shame of War Horror."
"Job is a big and tall man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, strong and healthy looking.
Once he begins to speak, however, the facade falls and the 50-year-old shows himself to be in tatters, suffering deep physical and mental wounds from a secret weapon of war being employed in central Africa.
So secret, many deny it exists. But more people like Job are coming forward to shed Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-50877677261042589602011-10-30T12:30:00.002-04:002011-10-30T12:31:57.699-04:00Quote of the Day:"If we have awareness, we should get action. Because it is not only to know, but to act" (Dr Dennis Mukwege of Panzi Hospital, the Democratic Republic of Congo, in an interview with Huffington Post) Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-26339360078520007302011-10-27T13:47:00.001-04:002011-10-27T13:49:27.287-04:00Journalists for Human Rights 16 Hour Marathon Event to Support Rape Survivors in the Congo
On November 4th, stand with Journalists for Human Rights Concordia University, in Montreal for the 1.6 million women victims of rape in the Congo. Raise awareness in your community and support these victims by standing for 16 hours. JhrConU Holler day is filled with events in partnership with Unicef Concordia, CSU, and many other student associations and clubs.
Check out our event plan for Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-28399009753988702832011-10-26T15:28:00.001-04:002011-10-26T15:29:00.063-04:00New Report Released: " African Women's Decade: One Year On"
Make Every Woman Count has just released a new report about women's rights in Africa.
"This report summarises the progress made by African countries regarding women's rights and gender equality on the continent during the first year of the African Women's Decade. This is done by presenting each country on the continent with a background and a presentation of progress and developments made withinEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-18404474892947866822011-10-25T16:46:00.002-04:002011-10-25T16:51:47.881-04:00The Guardian:"Conflict and abuse continue to plague eastern Congo ahead of elections"
"The humanitarian situation in Congo's eastern provinces is unlikely to bolster regional support for President Joseph Kabila.
The army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has had a rough ride since May 2009. That was when President Joseph Kabila started to integrate into the force about half of the estimated 330,000 militia who waged an eight-year civil war. Around 5 million people were Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-81410861987716685832011-10-25T16:30:00.001-04:002011-10-25T16:32:33.950-04:00UNITE: "Men Saying No to Violence Against Women" Campaign, Lebanon
"ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality, in partnership with Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights and the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs and in collaboration with the Forum for Development Culture & Dialogue, launched a nationwide media campaign entitled “Be a Man. Real Men Take a Stand Against Violence”. This media campaign begins the revolutionary journey towards using Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-43547964355097672002011-10-25T16:17:00.000-04:002011-10-25T16:17:42.990-04:00Quote of the Day:"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking, they don't have any"
Alice WalkerEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-40129584590408660052011-10-23T14:35:00.000-04:002011-10-23T14:35:03.212-04:00Womankind: "Women still struggling to secure peace in Liberia"
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee
"Hearing the news that three women – including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee (both from Liberia) together with Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman – have been awarded the Nobel Peace prize was even more exciting because we were in Liberia when we heard. Reineira (our Head of Programmes) and I have been here for five days Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-84105057704149202952011-10-23T14:12:00.001-04:002011-10-23T14:13:58.106-04:00Amnesty: Central African Republic: "A black hole for human rights"-New Amnesty report details decades of killings, rape and torture"Local and foreign armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) are still killing, abducting, torturing and raping civilians, as well as burning houses and looting property, Amnesty International said in a report released on the 20th of october.
The report ‘Central African Republic - Action needed to end decades of abuse’ describes how people in the CAR have been terrorised for decades by Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-11767199590621363542011-10-20T06:46:00.000-04:002011-10-20T06:46:46.499-04:00Watch "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" on PBS
"Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003. As the rebel noose tightened around the capital city of Monrovia, thousands of women – ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters, both Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-91447227906231176992011-10-20T06:36:00.001-04:002011-10-20T06:37:40.512-04:00Quote of the Day“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President.Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-57829017377640226792011-10-20T06:32:00.001-04:002011-10-20T06:39:27.188-04:00IPS: "No End to Mass Rapes: "It’s a Miserable Life"
"The village of rape survivor Angeline Mwarusena continues to be threatened by militia." (IPS)
"BUKAVU, DR Congo, Oct 17, 2011 (IPS) - Angeline Mwarusena, 61, sits on a small wooden bench in front of her hut, head bent, shoulders slumped. Her voice is barely audible. Four years ago, three soldiers from the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) entered her home, hit her and rapedEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-10923720026847417972011-10-16T05:10:00.000-04:002011-10-16T05:10:09.090-04:00The Dare Foundation: "Rape Sanctioned by Community Tradition"
Picture taken by the Dare Foundation
Emma Redfern of the Dare Foundation is passionate about ending rape sanctioned by community tradition among the Samburu in Kenya. In a recent article she explains the concept of "beading" in Samburu culture.
"In Samburu culture a warrior can ‘bead’ a girl who is not yet circumcised in order to have sex with her. The girl has no choice in the matter. So Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-28830499169366657332011-10-16T05:04:00.001-04:002011-10-16T05:05:16.386-04:00Join V-Day's "One Billion Rising" Campaign!"1 out of every 3 women on the planet will experience violence during their lifetime. Do the math - that's one billion women. Imagine what would happen if one billion women rose up to demand an end to violence AND DANCED until the violence stops? And what would happen if a billion men joined us? THE EARTH WOULD LITERALLY MOVE." (V-Day)
Join V-Day and activists around the world to demand an end Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-3804928432829499492011-10-16T04:47:00.002-04:002011-10-16T04:49:48.585-04:00IRIN: "HEALTH: Rape as a “Weapon of War” Against Men""CAPE TOWN, 13 October 2011 (IRIN) - Sexual violence against men, including rape, is under-reported, poorly addressed and has a severe impact on both men and their families, according to a presentation at the annual Sexual Violence and Research Initiative (SVRI), held in Cape Town, South Africa.
A study by Mervyn Christian, of the US-based Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, using community focus Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-90092753560956091142011-10-16T04:42:00.000-04:002011-10-16T04:42:00.450-04:00Kate Spade New York and Women for Women International is Expanding their Partnership
Women for Women International and kate spade new york are expanding the Hand in Hand partnership into Afghanistan. This next phase will leverage private investment by kate spade new york to provide critical, sustainable employment opportunities for Afghan women, whose economic participation is vital to the growth and stability of their country and economy.
Starting in 2012, kate spade new york Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-80252156042352284272011-10-16T04:26:00.000-04:002011-10-16T04:26:15.343-04:00Women, War & Peace TrailerEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-75719831124258720472011-10-16T04:17:00.000-04:002011-10-16T04:17:25.705-04:00Watch Women, War & Peace: "I Came to Testify" on PBS
"When the Balkans exploded into war in the 1990s, reports that tens of thousands of women were being systematically raped as a tactic of ethnic cleansing captured the international spotlight. I Came to Testify is the moving story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca broke history’s great silence – and stepped forward to take the Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-211984231119956282011-10-10T12:01:00.003-04:002011-10-10T12:12:24.199-04:00Podcast: Gloria Steinem on the Use of Rape as a Weapon
"Gloria Steinem is one of America’s leading feminists — she gained national prominence in the 1960s and 70s, at the height of the women’s liberation movement, and since then, has continued to work as a social activist and writer.
Steinem recently moderated a panel discussion in New York to commemorate the launch of a new book, called Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust.Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-59689724725117048592011-10-10T11:51:00.002-04:002011-10-10T12:00:52.971-04:00Don't Miss Women, War, and Peace on PBS!
Women, War & Peace, a new five-part series produced by PBS, will take an in-depth look at the role of women in some of the most war-torn countries on earth.
Women, War & Peace will begin on Tuesday, October 11th with the segment, “I Came to Testify,” about the courageous women victims of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina who stood up to testify in a court decision, leading to new international Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-54869367708493908292011-10-10T11:42:00.001-04:002011-10-10T11:57:44.472-04:00Women Hold up Half the Sky Museum Exhibit
Picture taken by Nicholas Kristof
A new art exhibit opens in October based on the successful book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, which features Women for Women International.
Scheduled to open October 27th at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, the exhibit will be called “Women Hold up Half the Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-9695998953730826272011-10-08T19:32:00.001-04:002011-10-08T19:33:11.959-04:00Congratulations Sirleaf, Gbowee, and Karman!The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 is to be divided in three equal parts between:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
Leymah Gbowee and
Tawakkul Karman for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-78759350069354205212011-09-25T07:33:00.003-04:002011-09-25T07:35:28.670-04:00UN News Centre: "Countries must treat sexual violence as serious security threat – top UN officials""22 September 2011 – Sexual violence in conflict represents a threat to peace and security and is not just a health or human rights issue, top United Nations officials told Member States today at a mini-summit on preventing and responding to sexual violence in conflict. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the mini-summit, held on the sidelines of the annual General Assembly in New York, thatEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-39895206614173519532011-09-09T08:23:00.000-04:002011-09-09T08:23:42.833-04:00Afrique en ligne: "United Nations official commends Sudan's presidential pardon for journalists""New York, US - Ms. Margot Wallstrom, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, on Saturday welcomed a presidential pardon granted by the Sudanese authorities last week to local journalists prosecuted for reporting on cases of alleged rape. 'It is an important signal of respect for freedom of expression by the Sudanese Government,” Wallstrom said inEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-73624803691888668722011-08-23T00:44:00.002-04:002011-08-23T00:46:13.842-04:00The Huffington Post: "Engaging Men in the Effort to End Violence Against Women""As more women in developing nations are empowered to promote their own advancement and security, NGOs can't forget those who have the power to instantly change the treatment of women -- men.
In Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin's recent Huffington Post article recapping his experience at the World YWCA's fourth International Women's Summit in Zurich in July, the UN World Population Fund executive Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-24096465421126045062011-08-16T01:41:00.000-04:002011-08-16T01:41:44.044-04:00Million Women Rise Film Night in LondonOn Thursday 25th of August Million Woman Rise is organizing a film night in London. The film being shown is "Pray the Devil Back to Hell."
7.30-9 pm 166a Stockwell Rd, The Lambeth Women's Project, London To confirm your attendance: millionwomenrise@gmail.com or Sharon 07905 248 884
For further information about the film night and future events please check the MWR website: Emmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-10928855858584626402011-08-16T01:22:00.003-04:002011-08-16T01:26:25.195-04:00Voice of America: "New Opportunities Give Sub-Saharan Women Room for Change"http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/New-Opportunities-Give-Sub-Saharan-Women-Change-126270318.htmlEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278840168417932491.post-19121399899790715152011-08-12T12:44:00.001-04:002011-08-12T12:44:52.397-04:00Run for Congo Women! Upcoming Events:
San Francisco, CA – August 27, 2011 (5K).
London, UK – September 11, 2011 (10K)
New York, NY – September 24th, 2011 (5K).
Los Angeles, CA - October 2, 2011 (5K and 10K)
Boston, MA – October 10, 2011 (10K
Help raise awareness and funds for Women for Women Internationals Congo program. Register Now!http://www.runforcongowomen.org/participate.htmlEmmicki Rooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806039423138649860noreply@blogger.com0