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Eve Ensler Calls for a Billion Women to Strike Against Sexual Violence

Emine Saner, The Guardian. January 1, 2012.

The Vagina Monologues shot writer Eve Ensler to stardom. Now she is a global campaigner who plans to call a billion women out on strike against rape.

Obama Backs Military Aid to Countries that Use Child Soldiers

Jim Lobe, IPS News. October 6, 2011.

For the second year in a row, U.S. President Barack Obama has waived a Congressionally-mandated ban on military aid for four countries that use child soldiers.

The World's 5 Worst Places For Women -- And How U.S. Policy Helped Make Them That Way

Michelle Chen, AlterNet. June 30, 2011.

The plight of women in Afghanistan, Congo and other difficult places owes much to the machinations of Washington politicians.

Anthony Weiner's Uncensored Penis Picture Plus 10 Other Images That Are Even More Obscene (Warning: Graphic)

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 9, 2011.

Weiner's junk isn't the only perverse image rocketing around the Internet -- here are 10 other shocking pics.

Western Heart of Darkness: What the IMF Chief's Rape Charge Says About the Ravages of Capitalism

Lynn Parramore, New Deal 2.0. May 16, 2011.

The struggle against violent domination is not a struggle against one demented or corrupt individual, but the authority represented by that individual.

Eve Ensler: Bald, Brave and Beautiful

Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. September 2, 2010.

The author of 'The Vagina Monologues' recently sat down with me, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to discuss New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Reporting on the Horrors and the Hope of the Congo

Catherine Corpeny, AlterNet. April 10, 2010.

How small consistent acts of advocacy can create a movement that can change the lives of girls and women in the Democratic People's Republic of the Congo.

How the U.S. Can Make Partial Amends for Its Negligence During the Rwandan Genocide

Linda Milazzo, Georgianne Nienaber, AlterNet. February 18, 2009.

Congolese populist movement requests urgent meeting with Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. ambassador Rice.

The Atrocities Committed Against Women and Girls in the Congo Defy Imagination

Marianne Schnall, Women's Media Center. February 7, 2009.

Six-month-old babies are being raped; men with AIDs are intentionally infecting women. Eve Ensler has a campaign to help end the terror.

Let's Start This New Era of Hope by Preventing Genocide in the Congo

Eve Ensler, Huffington Post. November 3, 2008.

Eastern Congo is about to spin out of control and tumble into full-scale war. Let that be the place where this new era of hope starts.

Enough! The Campaign to End Genocide

Brave New Films, Brave New Films. August 18, 2008.

Ryan Gosling and John Prendergast discuss ways to end crimes against humanity.

Protecting the Women of the Congo

Stephen Lewis, The Nation. April 24, 2008.

Women in the Congo are suffering such horrific violence that "vaginal destruction" is now a local medical term. Where is the UN?

Ten Reasons to Suspect "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam

Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. November 29, 2007.

As the "Save Darfur" lobby grows in power, here are ten reasons to be more critical about the supposedly humanitarian mission.