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On Women’s Equality Day, Congress far from Equal
Written by Elizabeth Holland Today, August 26, is Women’s Equality Day. The date commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, granting women the right to vote, and has been proclaimed by the President and Congress each year since 1971. Surely women have made important and substantial gains in the [...]
WILPF White Paper on U.S. SCR1325 on Women, Peace and Security
WAND is pleased to announce the release of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s (WILPF) U.S. Section Statement on U.S. SCR 1325 National Action Plan Development. The paper calls for the application of a human security framework in the development of the proposed U.S. SCR 1325 National Action Plan. According the the summary, [...]
Edwards Co-Chair of Afghan Women’s Task Force
June 15th marked the official start of the Afghan Women’s Task Force, and we are excited that this new bipartisan task force is co-chaired by WAND/WiLL Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD)! As noted in our official statement on the war in Afghanistan, WAND advocates helping Afghan civilians, especially women and girls, to obtain safety, basic necessities, [...]
Listening to Afghan Women
On Friday, April 29th, WAND joined activists from across the country for a radio town hall meeting at American University. The town hall meeting used Skype to connect American women in Washington, DC with Afghan women in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Joined by War: Women’s Rights in Today’s Afghanistan broadcast focused on how Afghan women continue [...]
On International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day (IWD) women from across the globe share their vision and hope for women everywhere. This year we celebrated IWD on March 8th and the inboxes at WAND were filled with inspiring blog articles and emails in honor of this exciting day. According to the United Nations website dedicated to the history [...]
Out of Afghanistan Caucus: United States’ Fiscal and Security Needs Demand A Swift Withdrawal Beginning in July
For Immediate Release March 16, 2011 Washington, D.C.— Members of the Out of Afghanistan Caucus issued the following statement today following two days of congressional testimony by General David Petraeus on the war in Afghanistan. Representative John Conyers (D-MI), chair of the Out of Afghanistan Caucus, was joined by Reps. David Cicilline (D-RI), Keith Ellison [...]
Women Speak Up on New START!
Over the past few months, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the coverage of New START in the media. We’re excited that women’s voices have played such a prominent role in this national security conversation. From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New START’s chief negotiator Rose Gottemoeller to WAND and WiLL members all over [...]
New Report and WAND Summary: “Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan”
A new report from Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies reflects the voices of Afghan women leaders, including parliamentarians, activists, school principals, health workers, and members of the police force and army to insist that they must be part of the nation’s peace process. “Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan” draws [...]
Secretary Clinton and Women in Peace Building
On Tuesday, October 26th, Secretary of Sate Hillary Clinton joined UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and diplomats from many nations in saying that the time was now for actions- not words- to end sexual violence in war and include women in decisions on making, keeping, and building peace. The UN Secretary General warned that [...]
A Mother’s Day Tribute
You might not be able to tell now, but Mother’s Day did not begin with greeting cards and chocolate boxes: it began with a cry for peace. It was 1872, and Julia Ward Howe — wife, mother, poet, early abolitionist and suffragette — found herself appalled at the state of the world. The Civil War [...]
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