With peace talks beginning between Israeli and Palestinian leaders this week, the world is looking for signs of hope in the Middle East. From a ship in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Mairead Maguire stresses the role for nonviolent activism.
In my country Kenya, we had general elections in 2007. The Presidential results were rigged (by both sides, I believe) and so violence broke out in the early months of 2008.
My brother would have been among the dead had he was out of town that day! He is a rugby fan and Kyadondo Rugby Grounds one of the sites of the twin bomb blasts in Kampala is his usual outing place.
I met Beatrice in 2004. As she lay in this bed deathly ill, her 10 year old son Vincent was digging outside the hut in which his mother lay dying. Beatrice was so ill she could hardly speak.
When Dulce Marlene Contreras started her organization with seven of her friends, she had just one thing on her mind: helping the women in her rural corner of Honduras protect themselves from domestic violence.
WHAT WILL YOU SAY ABOUT THAT? A REPORT Only 19 out of 192 member states have developed national action plans to implement 1325, noted Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury of Bangladesh.
