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Gloria Steinem on why she’s going to North Korea
May 1, 2015 by Anna Fifield
A group of women’s rights activists will head to North Korea later this month to hold a peace rally and then walk across the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the Korean peninsula for more than 60 years. They will then hold peace-related events in Seoul, South Korea.
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Continuing the Centennial Work of Women and Citizen Diplomacy in Korea
April 28, 2015 by Christine Ahn
A century ago, the suffragist Jane Addams boarded a ship with other American women peace activists to participate in a Congress of Women in The Hague.
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Dangerous, isolated and primed for war? North Korean clichés debunked
April 27, 2015 by Hazel Smith
Global media remain fascinated with North Korea’s supposed weirdness. Yet on the face of it, the North Korean government is neither uniquely authoritarian nor the population uniquely economically badly off.
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Criticizing human rights before DMZ march ‘bananas’ – Steinem
April 25, 2015 by Matthew Russell Lee
Gloria Steinem on Friday described demands that organizers of an upcoming DMZ crossing bring up North Korean human rights violations as “bananas.”
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Activists Say Both North Korea and South Korea Approve Women’s Peace Walk
April 24, 2015 by Rick Gladstone
Organizers of a women’s international peace walk across the Korean Peninsula’s heavily mined Demilitarized Zone next month said Friday that the governments of both North and South Korea had given their conditional approval for the event, which is meant to create new pressure for a formal end to the Korean War.
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