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Sep 22, 1997 · While only nine women have won the Peace Prize, the role of women has been important in the lives of many of the Laureates, the mothers who reared them and the wives who supported them in their peace crusades.
Oct 21, 2011 · Florence Nightingale was not the only woman in the Crimea – a misnomer in itself as she spent most of the war at the British hospital at Scutari, 300 miles away from the Crimea. Here, Helen...
- “Women Are Leading Efforts…In Syria.”
- “Young Women's Inclusion in Peacebuilding Will Create Sustainable peace.”
- “I Gave Everything to Get Justice.”
- “Impunity Is Not acceptable.”
Rajaa Altalli leads a life she never dreamed of as a girl. When she was 12 years old, her father was arrested by the Syrian government for being part of a political party. She thought she would never have a political career because, “It was too costly for one family to have more than one person arrested.” However, today she is an advocate for women...
Susan Sebit, 32, is an accomplished lawyer and advocate for women’s participation in governance and leadership. For decades, her home country of South Sudan has been overwhelmed by conflict. Because of the tireless advocacy of leaders like Sebit, South Sudan’s peace process engaged a coalition of 40 women’s organizations in peace talks, leading to ...
In the Polochic Valley of north-easten Guatemala, amidst cornfields and homes made of brick and tin, lives a group of women who changed history. The abuelas(grandmothers) of Sepur Zarco, as they are respectfully referred to, are survivors of untold horror and loss during the 36-year-long Guatemalan civil war. The Guatemalan military set up a rest o...
To date, no one has been successfully charged with conflict-related sexual violence in Kosovo*. Drita Haidari is working to change that. Haidari is a prosecutor for the Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo. She investigates and prosecutes war crimes. “Among other war crimes, sexual assault is one of the most serious and traumatic crimes a human bei...
Oct 27, 2014 · So how were these heroines remembered after the war? Women who had taken on men's roles during the war were subject to suspicion and sometimes to ridicule in peacetime.
"Women, War and Peace" provides examples of women in embattled regions who have been able to overcome the odds and contribute to the safety and well-being of their communities. Personal stories are shared of women involved in peace efforts.
Six days after the war ended, the new government publicly declared that any woman raped in the war was a birangona or ‘war heroine’. There exists a public memory of wartime rape through various literary, visual and testimonial forms, ensuring that the raped woman endures as an iconic figure.
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staggering numbers of women in war who survived the brutality of rape, sexual exploitation, mutilation, torture and displacement. The unconscionable acts of depravity. And the wholesale exclusion of women from peace processes. We prepared for each visit by researching the background of the conflict and
