Julie Myers
Colombia
“…there was no doubt that we were in the presence of something greater than ourselves.”
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Just weeks after the celebration of International Women’s Day, on 22 March, the Popular Women’s Organization (OFP) asked us to visit the house of a friend and OFP colleague named Iluminada.  Her neighbor, a man who identifies himself as a paramilitary, attacked and threatened her in her home.  In a demonstration of solidarity, eleven women from the OFP showed up to her house that morning, plus four Christian Peacemaker Team members (CPTers).
As we formed a …

Terry Gibson
Canada
“As a woman and a leader, I love with ferocity. I hate and scream. I fight with words. I sit, watch, and listen. I am tender, sexual, and loving. I love my life and yours. I stand arm in arm with you from all continents of the globe.”
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When I think about women who are leaders, I cannot help but think of those who are famous and get lots of attention for their works. Since they do not need any focus, I like to remember the living and breathing women …

- By Mary Liepold, Editor in Chief
According to UNWomen’s first annual report, gender violence is legal in one-third of the world’s nations. Though women routinely suffer abuse in countries that criminalize it, impunity for abusers is all but certain where the culture accepts violence as normal. Fortunately for us all, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has made ending violence against women a hallmark of his tenure since he took office in 2007. He reinforced the seminal SC Resolution 1325, on Women, Peace, and Security, with resolutions 1820, 1888, and 1889, all …

- By Mary Liepold
Editor In Chief

The subject was sexual harassment and sexual assault. Both sides of the long conference table were filled with young men, most of them ignoring the pizza on their plates and waving their hands in the air in their eagerness to speak. Standing at the back of the room, where I was, and in chairs along the sides were a handful of women.
The facilitators, Kedrick Griffin, Senior Director of Programs for Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR), and Joe Vess, Director of Training, presented two scenarios, one …