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Stephanie K=FCng, MADRE (212) 627-0444, skung@madre.org;

Annie Gell, BAI Port-au-Prince, Haiti +509-3610-2882, annie@ijdh.org

New Report on Sexual Violence in Haiti One Year After the Earthquake

January 10, 2011-New York, NY- Today, MADRE, the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) and the IWHR Clinic of CUNY School of Law released a report on sexual violence in Haiti one year after the earthquake, entitled Our Bodies Are Still Trembling: Haitian Women Continue to Fight Against Rape.

PRESS RELEASE

Kabul, 17 October 2010

Supported by the French Agency for Development (AFD), MADERA fosters the development of rural development activities in Wardak province (Central Afghanistan). The 33 month AFD-funded programme will reach over 10,000 beneficiaries in both Behsud I and Behsud II districts.

Focusing on the improvement and diversification of farming production, livestock management and practices and support in community rangeland regeneration, the programme gives continuity to former actions implemented by MADERA in the region. Previous actions include a

Kabul, 1 September 2010

The non-governmental organization Mission d'Aide au Développement des Economies Rurales - Afghanistan (MADERA) has launched a new three-year European Union-funded project to improve food security in vulnerable areas of Wardak province in Afghanistan.

The project aims to recover the livestock sector and to increase food production and sources of income in two districts of Wardak province. Under the project, activities will be implemented to recover and stabilize key livelihood assets (livestock and land) of the

The French NGOs who actively assist the Afghan population, and have done so in some cases for 30 years, are extremely concerned by the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, despite the progress which has been made.

The situation has deteriorated on a regular basis, from conference to conference, since the Bonn conference in November 2001. We are afraid that the London conference on January 28th will be the umpteenth conference without any tangible results. Today, everyone agrees that there can be no military solution. We urge the Afghan government

Between October and December 2008, the non-governmental organization Mission d'Aide au Développement des Economies Rurales - Afghanistan (MADERA) assisted around 60,000 people in remote rural areas of Ghor and Wardak provinces of Afghanistan, with the support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO).

MADERA implemented an employment creation project in the two provinces which enabled the beneficiaries to earn an income and secure sufficient food supplies for the winter period. Workers from over 7,000 households were employed in road repair and reconstruction

MADRE, an international women's human rights organization, expresses grave concern for the safety of Palestinian, Israeli, and Lebanese civilians as a "two-front war" looms in the Middle East.
On Wednesday morning, fighters from the Lebanese-based Hezbollah organization captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid into northern Israel and fired rockets and mortar bombs at Israeli towns. At least four Israeli civilians were wounded. Residents in the north have been ordered into bomb shelters. If, in fact, the soldiers