Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
LYS ANZIA - WNN Features “The strategy used in women’s prisons now is one of humiliation rather than rehabilitation,” said Jane Evelyn Atwood in her 2007 Amnesty International video documentary, “Too Much Time.” For nine years, Atwood photographed and documented the conditions for women in 40 women’s prisons worldwide including the US, Europe and Eastern [...]
WNN editorial release – WNN Features Keynote speech by Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights At the Council of Europe Conference on “Support Services for Women Victims of Violence” Strasbourg, 6 December 2007 A week ago I visited a refuge in Cork, Ireland, for women who needed shelter against violence at home. [...]
Lys Anzia – WNN Features As award winning foreign correspondent, Dr. Ruth Gruber, reaches her 96th year this year, her new and 19th book is out. The book, “WITNESS – One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story,” crosses decades as it speaks of humanity, crisis and rescue. Just released by [...]
Lys Anzia – WNN Features – Malalai Joya at home in Farah, photo image Marie Dorigny – A group of women humanitarians is asking for help from the world on the one month anniversary of the parliamentary expulsion of Afghan parliamentarian, Malalai Joya. The Italian women’s organization, CISDA – Coordinamento Italiano Sostegno Donne Afghane, is [...]
Drea Knufken – WNN Features -Albanian family flees post war 1996 – photo Svetlana Bahchevanova- “Put simply, how women fare in a society is an indicator of the direction that society is taking.” – Zainab Salbi. What happens after a war is over? The glamour and glory, if there was ever any, is gone. The [...]
