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Press

Rebuilding Cambodia one woman at a time, by Karoline Kemp, from Rabble:
Cambodia: Another Kind of War

International Peace Bureau Newsletter
International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament

Cathy Hoang's Karen refugee article from In the Fray
"Choosing Uncertainty"

Emily Polk's Karen refugee article from Alternet
"Fighting for Change"

“Women are not just victims of human rights abuse but also actors who can define and defend human rights from the perspective of their own lives. Comprehensive definitions of women’s human rights can then be drawn from women’s perception of what is central to their basic integrity as human beings. From this starting point, women articulate and work for their human rights, not by asking existing human rights groups for the recognition or trying to twist women into existing human rights categories. Rather, we bring the insights and changes in consciousness experienced by women over the last 25 years into the lives of women. This aspect of human rights has been missing from the largely male-defined concepts of what is central to humanity. Adding this dimension will strengthen the concept of human rights by expanding it to take greater account of the lives of the other half of the human race.”

—Charlotte Bunch, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University