Voices from the Frontlines
Voices from the Frontlines are first-person reports on what is happening around the world, how it impacts women, and how women are building cultures of peace. We encourage submissions from everyone, including YOU!
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Minna Salami
United Kingdom
Editor’s Note: Minna Salami, who is based in London, wrote this in response to the riots that swept through her city last week. You can read the original post on her blog, MsAfropolitan.
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This is the picture the media is using to remember the man who unconsciously, post-mortem, instigated the UK riots.
Some see what is intended – a dangerous black man making gun gestures.
To others, this is a picture of another ‘cheap’ black life taken unjustly and irreplaceably.
Duggan’s family say, “We don’t want Mark portrayed as some kind …
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Gulara Azimzadeh
Azerbaijan
“My mind was poisoned with hatred because of my carelessness, and the single person who helped me was Lilit.”
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I was willingly preparing for my first visit to Georgia. I was traveling to the city of Bakuriani, Georgia, to take part in a workshop with young people from Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan. When we arrived, we settled into a hotel by the shore, and I noticed that the Georgians there were very funny, vigorous, and active despite my expectations. At …
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Elise Webb
Rwanda/United States
“Patricia was an average woman dressed in a vivid blue t-shirt and yellow skirt. To me, she was just another face in the chaotic crowd, but to them she was a liberator. She was a woman to be trusted, a leader from their own ranks. She stepped forward to calm the throng.”
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Shouts wafted uphill to where my Rwandan Search for Common Ground (SFCG) colleagues and I were chatting with a group of women outside the office of the Sector Executive Secretary. They were waiting to be paid …
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Deb Reich
Israel
“The Internet age has given us a kind of global nervous system for all humanity. We are certainly becoming one extended human family; one community. In that reality, everyone’s human rights are inherently interactive and interconnected – starting with the reciprocal right of all human beings on this planet to refuse to be enemies.”
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I see new reason for hope in all the places where peace has eluded us for so long – places like Palestine, and Israel, where I live. Here, the term “peace” has become almost emptied …
