Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Hopelessness and Hopefulness of Women’s Equality Day
Today is Women’s Equality Day, and it somehow makes me sad. When I reflect on the past week’s news – how over 150 women were raped in Banangiri in Eastern Congo just last month by armed gunman, http://www.worldpress.org/africa/1561.cfm how only 40 … Continue reading
Women, Memory and Truth
For centuries, women have been a driving force for social justice and political change, but their stories have often gone undocumented and remain untold. In Women’s Hands aims to change this pattern and to put women’s stories and insights, both … Continue reading
From Anger to Action: The Women of Srebrenica Organize
One persistent theory I have after meeting with several women and mother’s group of Srebrenica is this: anger can be a mobilizing force. I’ve always felt that people have to be pissed-off enough about something to rise up and act. … Continue reading
From Human Being, to Missing Person, to a Number, to a Memory
There is smell I will never forget. It is that of the morgue holding hundreds of bags of decomposed body parts of persons missing after the fall of Srebrenica, lined up from floor to ceiling, wall to wall. This is … Continue reading
Srebrenica Mothers: Exist, Return, Resist
Hatidza Mehmedovic is angry, very angry — and rightly so. Our conversation today began with an outburst of accusations against the UN, local politicians, European diplomats, international negotiators, and the people of Bosnia themselves. Just three weeks ago, on the … Continue reading
Travel Mates
How lucky am I to be traveling with three amazing women from Bosnia and Herzegovina during visits to womens associations in Srebrenica and Tuzla! You have already been introduced to Amra Celebic in my previous blog. We will be accompanied by Ivona … Continue reading
