Mark Leon Goldberg chats with Dana Goldstein of The Daily Beast about her article on US - Congo policy. They also chat about Sri Lanka and the creation of UN WOMEN.
Today, governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations around the world are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by organizing awareness-raising activities in their communities.
Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit's speech made on International Women's Day in StrasbourgThank you for inviting me to this today. It is always an honour and a pleasure to be here, among you (at the European Parliament).
On the one-year anniversary of nationwide nonviolent protests dubbed the Saffron Revolution in Burma, the women Laureates of the Nobel Women's Initiative honor the courage and determination of the men and women of Burma. We call for the immediate release of all Burma's political prisoners, including sister laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and Nilar Thein—a woman rights defender and leading pro-democracy activist arrested just last week.
Statement by Dr. Nurgul Djanaeva, Forum of women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, at the Informal Interactive Hearings of the General Assembly with Nongovernmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector at the United Nations Headquarters.
In the aftermath of the deadly violence that rocked Kyrgyzstan earlier this month, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has issued a call for US$670,000 to provide urgently needed services. Specifically, UNIFEM seeks to provide psychological and rehabilitation to women survivors of sexual violence affected by the conflict.
Hanin Zoabi was aboard the Mavi Marmara, the lead ship in the flotilla where all nine activists were killed, and she witnessed some of them bleed to death. When she returned to Israel to speak in the Knesset, she was verbally assaulted by parliament members for her participation in the flotilla.
Kup Women for Peace from Papua New Guinea are now in Fiji raising awareness about and asking their government to take action to stop the gun violence currently affecting their communities. As a result of armed confrontations between neighbouring communities, which started nine months ago, schools and hospitals have been closed, development work has halted and foreign workers have withdrawn to safety.
