Yifat Susskind is the Executive Director of MADRE, an international women's human rights organization that partners with community-based women's groups worldwide facing war and disaster. Yifat’s writing and critical analysis on U.S. foreign policy and women's human rights has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy in Focus, The Guardian and The Huffington Post. She has been featured as a commentator on CNN, National Public Radio and BBC Radio.
Unless you are part of the narrow demographic of rich, white men deemed to have rights in 1776, this new Trump administration commission won’t protect you.
There seems to be no crisis, no simmering conflict, no active war or threat of violence that Trump isn’t set on making worse. Thankfully, women around the world are countering his macho blathering with a real peace agenda.