News
05. August 2010
Rwanda’s ambivalent path to the future: trapped between human and women’s rights issues
Guest commentary by Edit Schlaffer, photos Carla Goldstein, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck (Die Presse, 31.07.2010)
Rwanda is a country full of contradictions. Preparations for the upcoming elections on August 9 are well underway. Whilst political opponents and inquisitive journalists are disappearing, voter registration ...
30. July 2010
Living Together – But How?
Guest commentary by Edit Schlaffer (Die Presee, 30.7.2010)
Debates on migration policies are not new in Austria, but they have recently taken a more serious turn. Practical constraints rather than the stakeholders’ humanitarian considerations form the basis ...
26. July 2010
India: Peace Starts at Home! – Men Included
The Film
Violence against women is a taboo topic in India; there are almost no facilities in which women can openly speak out against domestic violence. Gender-based violence is not the victims’ private ...
07. July 2010
7/7: Never Again!
A Statement by Edit Schlaffer
Today is the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, and our thoughts and wishes go out to all those affected by the bombings - victims, survivors, friends, and family members. We also think of the family members ...
21. June 2010
Documentary: Women Know How! SAVE Sisters and their Vision for SAVE
A short documentary by Silja Strasser
In May 2010, activists, scholars, and decision makers from Pakistan, India, Yemen, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Somalia, Israel, Palestine, and Bosnia came together to develop an implementation strategy ...
17. June 2010
Shirin Ebadi in Vienna
Nobel Peace Prize laureate shares thoughts on human rights in Iran
On June 16, Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke in Vienna on the status of human rights in Iran. Dr. Ebadi was in Vienna to receive the Felix Ermacora Prize for Human Rights in the ...
16. June 2010
The Way Out! Women Know How
Mothers for Change! Train the Trainers Workshops Report
From May 24-30, 14 women from Pakistan, India, Yemen, Indonesia, Palestine, Israel, Somalia, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland came together in Carinthia, Austria for a week of workshops to learn how to implement ...
16. June 2010
Unfiltered Voices from SAVE Chapters Worldwide
The SAVE Blog!
The SAVE Blog was started last November, and in recent months, it has been developing as an active and dynamic forum for SAVE Sisters and allies worldwide. Here you can find updates on chapter activities ...
15. June 2010
Yemen - “Education instead of Beards”
An interview with Nadia Al-Sakkaf
Nadia al Sakkaf, leading journalist in Yemen, publisher/editor in chief of the Yemen Times was invited to a conference in Vienna by Women without Borders and the Austrian Foundation for World Population. ...
14. June 2010
India- Peace Starts at Home - Men Included!
Project and Film Presentation
On June 1, 2010, Women without Borders presented the campaign against gender-based violence with Federal Minister Rudolf Hundstorder and Archana Kapoor, our Indian partner, in the press center of the ...
14. June 2010
“Is Domestic Violence a Cultural Tradition?...and Other Questions About Gender and Migration”
A presentation by Oliva Espin
On June 10, 2010, Women without Borders and the US Embassy in Austria co-hosted a talk by Dr. Oliva Espin at the Amerika Haus. Dr. Espin is the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Gender Studies at Alpen-Adria ...
07. June 2010
21 Leaders for the 21st Century
Award Ceremony in New York
On May 6th 2010 Edit Schlaffer received the “21 Leaders for the 21st Century! award in New York. The leading US news service for women, Women´s eNews honoured Edit Schlaffer as a Transformer ...
07. June 2010
SAVE India: Mothers for Change! Project Report
"Our Stories, Our Future" and "Swimming to the Future" workshops in Mumbai
From April 26-30, 2010, SAVE India launched a Mothers for Change! pilot project to test how to reach out to families affected by the 26/11 attacks. These families can serve as important testimonials for ...
03. June 2010
Women without Borders / SAVE Commentary
Reactions to Violence near Gaza
SAVE joins the international condemnation of this violent act at sea near Gaza. We are deeply concerned by the Israeli use of force on the Peace Boats delivering humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. ...
31. May 2010
Against Gender-Based Violence
Men Making Peace
Peace starts at home, and not on the world stage: project and film presentation. Violence against women is a taboo topic in India; there are almost no facilities in which women can openly speak out ...
29. May 2010
The Way Out: Women Know How!
SAVE Workshops Conclusions
In our last update on the first SAVE Global Training Workshops, we talked about the 15 amazing women from Pakistan, Yemen, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Israel, Bosnia, Indonesia, India, and Somalia who ...
26. May 2010
SAVE Workshops Update
The Way Out: Women Know How!
On May 24, 15 women from Pakistan, Yemen, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Israel, Bosnia, Indonesia, India, and Somalia came together to start a week of intensive workshops to launch SAVE’s first global ...
07. May 2010
Terrorists are Raised, Not Born
Interview with Edit Schlaffer, published in Die Furche
“When we see that mothers in Palestine give future martyrs their blessings, then something has gone wrong.” On May 6, the US news service Women’s eNews will honor Edit Schlaffer as ...
04. May 2010
Burning Injustice: The Face of Violent Extremism
Acid attacks are on the rise in Pakistan
Last week, three Pakistani sisters, age 20, 16, and 14, had their lives irrevocably changed. As they walked from Kalat city to Pandarani village in the Baluchistan province, two motorcyclists threw acid ...
16. April 2010
Bollywood and Terror
A Round Table Discussion in Mumbia, India
Women without Borders / SAVE – Sisters Against Violent Extremism, organizes a round table discussion on Bollywood and Terror on May 1st, 2010, at the Taj Bandra Hotel in Mumbai. The purpose ...
12. April 2010
SAVE Pakistan Meeting
Islamabad, 9 April 2010
On April 9, the members of SAVE Pakistan met together to create an implementation plan for the SAVE Mothers for Change! global campaign and to make a statement against violent extremism. Their hard ...
09. April 2010
Control Over Life and Death?
Guest Commentary by Edit Schlaffer, Die Presse, 9 April 2010
A Plea for a Policy of Emotional Breakthroughs The attacks on the Moscow metro were troubling in a double sense: the images did not show attacks on a gathering of believers in front of a mosque in ...
02. April 2010
Security in Safe Hands: Women Make the Difference
Second SAVE Global Conference Report
Our SAVE sisters who participated in the second global SAVE conference “Security in Safe Hands: Women make the Difference!” at the end of February 2010 continue to impress and inspire as they ...
02. April 2010
When Disaster Strikes
Overcoming Breakdowns, Preparing for Breakthroughs
The recent bombings in Russia by female suicide bombers should give us all reason to pause: how is it possible that women—people we count on to hold together civil society, to be the voice of reason ...
30. March 2010
SAVE Women Speak Out
Excerpts from the second Global SAVE Conference, 2010
In February 2010, women from all over the world came together for the second Global SAVE Conference in Vienna, Austria. Below are some excerpts from the conference participants about who they are, how ...
10. March 2010
“We don’t want to lose our country”. Pakistan in Crisis: Female Voices from the Ground
Arshi Saleem Hashmi about the current change and crisis in Pakistan
The expert on Religion and Politics of Violent Conflicts with special reference to South Asia was invited by Women without Borders / SAVE and the US Embassy in Vienna to give a talk about the Pakistani ...
08. March 2010
Women as Early Warning Systems
Comments on International Women’s Day in the Context of Terror Prevention: A Global Mothers’ Movement Against Violent Extremism is Fighting for a New Architecture of Peace. A commentary by Edit Schlaffer
Nearly one hundred years ago, Mother’s Day saw new competition: International Women’s Day, which is celebrated globally on the 8th of March. Since the beginning, the focus has been highly ...
04. March 2010
The SAVE Global Campaign
Mothers for Change!
SAVE will empower mothers as agents of change in the global environment of violent extremism. Our campaign will be initiated in Yemen, Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Palestine, Israel, the UK and Ireland. ...
24. February 2010
The New Partnership Paradigm: From the Personal to the Political
Edit Schlaffer interviewed in Die Presse am Sonntag
The following article was published as a full-page spread in Die Presse am Sonntag, the Sunday edition of Die Presse. The sociologist and feminist Edit Schlaffer describes her views on an ideal partnership ...
24. February 2010
SAVE in the News!
"Edit Schlaffer: Great Accomplishments in Small Steps" published in Die Standard
In the past week, Edit and SAVE have been the subject of several major interviews and features in Austrian newspapers, including the following piece, which was published in Die Standard. Die Standard ...
01. February 2010
Bridging the Gap! Young Voices from the Saudi Kingdom
Executive Summary
Between 2006 and 2008, Edit Schlaffer, together with an international research team surveyed a total of 4,400 male and female students across the country, as it can be assumed that the educated ...
14. January 2010
Edit Schlaffer: One of the 21 leaders for the 21st Century!
On January 1st 2010 Women's eNews announced the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century 2010, “a remarkable array of talent and determination that renews our optimism about what will be accomplished this ...
29. September 2009
This is Us! Young Muslim Men and Women in Vienna
Within the framework of a "Listening Project" supported by the city of Vienna (Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, MA 7), Women without Borders held conversations with Viennese pupils ...
