On October 4, 2012, after a Syrian bombing kills five women and children in a Turkish border town, has CNN interviewing former Nation ‘Supreme’ Commander, Wesley Clark, as their media an expert. Clark states that the killing of Turkish mother’s and children, “It happens…..civilian casualties.” Citing it is a part of a broader conflict and […read more]
On October 4, 2012, after a Syrian bombing kills five women and children in a Turkish border town, has CNN interviewing former Nation ‘Supreme’ Commander, Wesley Clark, as their media an expert. Clark states that the killing of Turkish mother’s and children, “It happens…..civilian casualties.” Citing it is a part of a broader conflict and […read more]
The Duck Masked & Crowned Bird Goddess dressed in […read more]
Wahu Kaara and Danica Anderson, Female Solidarity
Wahu Kaara, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee/Winner 2005, board member of the Kolo: Women’s Cross Cultural Collaboration is a leading advocate for social justice in Kenya. She says: “African women are not dying for Africa anymore; they want to live for Africa.” She works for the Kenya Debt Relief Network […read more]
by Danica Anderson
If you had the exquisite pleasure to witness the Congo-Africa, I am sure you would witness what I have observed. The violence and conflicts are intergenerational practices in postlithic societies.
It is no small wonder that Post Traumatic stress is, also, intergenerational. In Paleolithic […read more]
Why Soldiers Rape
By Helen Benedict, In These Times
Printed September 13, 2008
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from “<http://www.helenbenedict.com/>The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq,” to be published by Beacon Press in April 2009.
An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at […read more]
In 2003, an Italian NGO and UNICEF contracted me to go to Anaradapura in Sri Lanka and teach on the subject of gender-based violence. As part of the assignment, I was ensconced in a small house on the grounds of a hotel resort run by a Sri Lankan and his Italian […read more]