Commit, Act, Demand

Meet Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking). Las Mujeres Hablan (The Women Speaking) is a network of local activists working in Northern New Mexico, USA, to protect their peoples and lands from the nuclear weapons industry.  The women work locally for global disarmament.  Since 1943, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has occupied the sacred ancestral homelands of the Pueblo Peoples and displaced Hispanic homesteaders with the establishment of the Manhattan Project on the Pajarito Plateau in the Jemez Mountains.

Meet Molly Malekar. Molly has been involved with Bat Shalom, Israeli Women's Venture for Peace since 1995.  She is part of the spokespersons' team for the Women's Coalition for Just Peace, and previously served as a project coordinator for the Sikkuy Association for the Advancement of Civil Society in Israel.

Molly also remains involved in the work of the Israeli Women's Network, the Jewish-Arab Elementary School in Jerusalem and the International Women's Commission for Just and Sustainable Peace.

Listen to Molly talk about her work.

Meet Safaa Elagib Adam. Safaa is a Sudanese peace and gender activist who has worked in rel ief o pe rations in both Darfur and Eastern Sudan .  Her involvement in Sudanese women's forum s since the 4th World Women Conference has been instrumental in voicing women's concerns .  Saafa's role as Gender Expert Team Leader in the 7th round of the Darfur-Sudan Peace talks in Abuja was vital in leading women civil society to the negotiation table .

Safaa and her colleagues are launching a number of activities for this year's 16 Days of Activism - including the opening of a women's center in Darfur, a march, and other awareness-raising activities.

Learn more about Safaa .