Recognizing the urgent need to address the political, structural and cultural barriers to mainstreaming Emergency Contraception in the region, the Pacific Institute organized the first ever Southeast Asian Workshop on Strategies to Promote Access to Emergency Contraception from October 24 to 26, 2002 in Bangkok, Thailand.
25,000 posters carrying the phrase: "WAR WILL NEVER WIN PEACE - SAY YES TO CEASEFIRE TO WIN PEACE" were printed and pasted in 16 districts through the National Peace Council network, including some of the areas controlled by the the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Batticaloa, Trincomalee, and Mannar districts.
A civil society vigil was held in honor of the 100 days of the ceasefire agreement. Also, a photo exhibition with a total of 260 photos was organized at the John de Silva Art Gallery in Colombo in commemoration of the 100 days of ceasefire. The reactions from the viewers encouraged the National Peace Council to take this exhibition around the country.
Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) jointly with the National Peace Council from Sri Lanka, organized a workshop that brought together Naga Peace activists and social scientists and their Sri Lankan counterparts, to encourage peace-making skills through a programme of dialogues. This was the first of the series of dialogues.
ilar Thein, a woman human rights defender and leading pro-democracy activist was arrested on 10 September 2008 and is currently being held at the Aung Tha Pyay Detention Centre in Rangoon, where she is at risk of torture and ill-treatment. WLB urgently appeals for her release and demands that the SPDC treat her humanely.
The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) is seeking applications from young and emerging women leaders from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Tonga to participate in a project entitled: the Bottom-Up Governance Leadership Program for Women in the Pacific (BGLP).
Forty-five young researchers, practitioners and students from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Tibet and India came together in New Delhi to participate in the Second WISCOMP Conflict Transformation Workshop titled Transcending Conflict organized from June 2nd to 9th 2003.
We, the representatives of women's organizations in Sri Lanka came together in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 7 June 2002 to make recommendations regarding women, conflict, and the peace process. In our deliberations we came to the following conclusions:
