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Wartime Violence against Disabled Women Often Ignored

By Juhie Bhatia ● Uncategorized ● June 18, 2014

Disability rights activists called for a variety of remedies during a panel of a major London conference last week. “If you have reduced mobility, it makes it that much harder to run when everyone else is fleeing from the village, you may have less chance to run away,” said one speaker.

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Military Nurses in Philippines Engulfed in WWII

By Mary Cronk Farrell ● Uncategorized ● May 24, 2014

More than 100 U.S. military nurses were stationed at base hospitals in the Philippines on Dec. 7, 1941. As the U.S. entered the war, Frances Nash and Peggy Nash faced deluges of wounded, says Mary Cronk Farrell in this excerpt from “Pure Grit.”

Afghan Women: the Kill List We Don’t Talk About

By Sahana Dharmapuri ● Uncategorized ● May 21, 2014

In the world of pen vs. gun, we would all benefit from putting the Arab proverb “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” to good use. If women’s rights are a security threat to violent extremists, then women’s rights must be the asset we protect.

Refugee Women in South Sudan: ‘Stop the Killing’

By Masha Hamilton ● Uncategorized ● May 15, 2014

Just a few months ago both these women led very different lives. But now they live side by side in a refugee camp and provide a glimpse of the human toll of the bloody conflict in the world’s youngest country.

Syria War Shatters Maternal Care, Mothers’ Health

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● March 12, 2014

While 96 percent of mothers in Syria had medical assistance when giving birth before the conflict, medical services for women have become almost nonexistent, finds a recent report from Save the Children. C-sections are riskier than ever and more than twice as common now.

For Syrian Refugees, Early Marriages End Early

By Dominique Soguel ● Uncategorized ● February 19, 2014

Early marriages are subject to special pressures in the unstable conditions of refugee camp life in Jordan. The divorces that follow can be complicated by the questionable legal standing in which marriages are conducted.

Video: Syrian Woman Recalls Horror of Homs

By Hajer Naili ● Arts & Culture ● January 28, 2014

In this video, a Syrian woman who fled war-torn Homs describes her work washing the corpses of women. Negotiators in Geneva have just agreed to provide a relief corridor for women and children to leave districts that have been besieged since June 2012.

Video: Syrian Refugee Widow Recalls Living with War

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● January 16, 2014

Next week the international community holds peace talks for Syria and women from that country are pressing for their voices to be heard. In this video from late last year, a Syrian woman living as a refugee in Jordan shares how she lost her husband and helped the Free Syrian Army.

Video: FSA Syrian Nurse Helps Both Sides of the War

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● January 11, 2014

Syrian refugee Hoda recalls helping an Alawite girl. Shurook, who didn’t want to appear on camera, also helped the opposition. The first of three videos featuring the stories of female refugees in the Free Syrian Army.

Syrian Women in Jordan Face Economics of Survival

By Dominique Soguel ● Arts & Culture ● December 29, 2013

Prepared by their culture to stay home with the children, single female heads of household are ill-equipped for refugee life in the cities of Jordan. Survival sex, domestic violence and early marriage are all part of the coping effort.