August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime target in conflict, yet when it comes to
by Shelagh Daley August 24, 2011 You can’t build peace leaving half of the people out. Women are a prime target in conflict, yet when
by Cora Weiss In my years of peace and gender activism, I developed a stock of one-liners about the role of women. Often I was
By Judith Avory Faucette August 17, 2011 The international legal system treats rape in wartime as a serious crime, especially when it is used in
by Debra Sweet Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies of the United States, the
By Gabrielle Korn August 11, 2011 On September 20, 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — the law barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in
The war in Afghanistan is not the first U.S. war in which the ill-treatment of women was used to stoke the fire for war support
by Merle Hoffman All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, the intimacy is profound. In
By Helen Benedict August 3, 2011 In 2006, when I discovered that more women were serving and fighting in the Iraq War than in all
By Autumn Sandeen July 28, 2011 The Veterans Administration released a new directive on transgender veterans in June 2011, “Providing Health Care For Transgender And
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