Opens August 4, The Senedd – National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff Bay in collaboration with Wales for Peace (Cymru dros Heddwch) Ifanwy Williams, aged 95, stands against the dramatic scenery of the Snowdonia National Park. For seventy years Ifanwy has been part of the peace movement in Wales. For ten years she has chaired the […]

Women's peace event in Beit-Jala on the outskirts of Bethlehem, co-ordinated by the Women’s Group of the Parents Circle Families Forum. The Forum brings together families of those killed in the ongoing conflict who believe that by speaking openly of their loss, reconciliation and a permanent peace is possible in order to end to the […]

Life from the Killing Fields

Mom Meth, survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide (April 1975 to January 1979), Phnom Penh, Cambodia © Lee Karen Stow

‘When war comes to the gate, even the women must fight’ is a saying as old as the hills in Vietnam. Since 40AD when the Trung sisters raised a revolt against the Chinese and repelled the invaders for three years, women have taken up arms to fight for independence. When the French came and colonised […]