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"The Strength of Mothers" - The Life and Work of Wahu Kaara of Kenya

- By Alison Morse

"Broken Can Heal" - The Life and Work of Manjula Pradeep of India

- By Amy S. Choi

Rubina Feroze Bhatti Given Human Rights Award in Pakistan

2009 Woman PeaceMaker Rubina Feroze Bhatti is one of four recipients of this year's award from the Human Rights Society of Pakistan. The selection of awardees was made for the role they played for the rights of the people in their respective fields and the struggle and sacrifices they made for the cause.

Bhatti was also a recent recipient of the National Women’s Political Caucus 2011 Women of Courage Award. The Women of Courage Awards are presented to women from diverse backgrounds who have demonstrated courage by taking a stand to further civil rights and equality, and who exemplify women's leadership.

Program Receives Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award

The United Nations Association of San Diego honored the Women PeaceMakers Program with its 2011 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award. On October 22, IPJ Deputy Director Dee Aker and Program Officer Jennifer Freeman accepted the award, established by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 1998

as a “tribute to advancing social justice, human rights and peace around the globe.”

Ugandan Peace Writer Receives Prestigious Fellowship

Jackee Batanda, 2006 peace writer, was recently named the 2011-12 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow, given by the International Women's Media Foundation. Batanda will study at MIT's Center for International Studies and other Boston-area universities, and will have access to the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

Read her blog while in the U.S.

Recent op-ed in the Boston Globe

Sri Lankan PeaceMaker Receives N-Peace Award

2004 Woman PeaceMaker Shreen Abdul Saroor was named the N-Peace Network’s inaugural N-Peace Award recipient for Sri Lanka, acknowledging her leadership in community peacebuilding, empowerment and violence prevention. Award winners were determined by public voting and will be featured in a documentary film for the network’s regional meeting in Bangkok in October. 2007 Woman PeaceMaker Latifah Anum Siregar of Indonesia was also a nominee for the award.

Saroor also recently won the 5th International Bremen Peace Award, given by the Threshold Foundation in Germany. In November she will receive 15,000 € for her "Public Engagement in Peace and Justice."

IPJ Helps Launch All-Women Peacekeeping Force in the Philippines

On May 20, IPJ Deputy Director Dee Aker and Program Officer Jennifer Freeman will be in Manila to assist in the international launch of the first All-Women Contingent in the International Monitoring Team, which monitors the cease-fire in Mindanao between the army and Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The women peacekeeping force is organized by the Mindanao Peoples Caucus, headed by IPJ Woman PeaceMaker Mary Ann Arnado.

Aker and Freeman will then travel to Mindanao with Arnado and Women PeaceMakers Bae Liza Llesis Saway, Milet Mendoza and Thavory Huot for the second meeting of the Asia Regional Network of Women PeaceMakers.

For the IPJ's previous work in the Philippines, click here.

(Photo courtesy of the Mindanao Peoples Caucus)