Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) invites applications from South Asian professionals and scholars under the age of 45 for its Scholar of Peace Fellowships awarded for academic research, media and special projects. WISCOMP is a South Asian research and training initiative that seeks to promote an inclusive, gender sensitive discourse on issues related to peace and security in South Asia.
The National Council for Peace in Sri Lanka launched the Campaign "From one year to Ceasefire to Permanent Peace" to celebrate the first anniversary of the ceasefire and support the peace process in Sri Lanka.
Part 2 of the "Akkini Paravaikal" (Volcanic Birds) of Nitharsanam Women Unit of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was released in Trincomalee Friday evening. Trincomalee district political head of the LTTE Mr.S.Elilan handed over the first copy of the CD to the mother of a LTTE martyr at the event held in Trincomalee Town Hall.
The six-year, six-country, South Asian Campaign to End All Violence against Women - or the 'WE CAN" campaign - aims to deal with violence women endure daily, both within their homes and in the larger society in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
October 3, 2004 – (TamilNet) A "Confluence" of Tamil Eelam Women Associations, Sangamam, was held in Kilinochchi Cultural Hall Thursday where more than 650 women activists from all regions of Kilinochchi took part, sources in Vanni said. Kilinochchi district LTTE Head of Women's Political Wing, Poovili presided the event.
Journal for Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan invites submissions for its 2009 Special Issue (vol. 16, no. 1, June 2009) on the theme of “Women Working Beyond Borders.”
Nearly 200 activists from approximately 70 countries worldwide gathered yesterday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to begin an historic global gathering of women human rights defenders. The consultation meeting, attended by the First Lady of Sri Lanka, Shiranthi Rajapakse, is addressing experiences of women who defend a range of human rights issues, as well as women and men around the globe who defend the human rights of women.
WOREC Nepal and NAWHRDs is appalled and deeply shocked on hearing the cruel brutality of the Police against Women Human Rights Defenders of Chimdi Village Development Committee (VDC) of Sunsari district. Around 14 WHRDs have been severely beaten and injured by Police who charged them with batons and rear of the gun. Please take urgent action.
The Women's Network for Peace and Freedom is dismayed by the deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka, and by the failure of the parties to the conflict to respect and abide by the 2002 ceasefire agreement. Particularly of concern are the deaths - and, in some cases, targeting - of innocent civilians and the displacement of people, and the failure of the international community to take effective action to bring an end to this conflict.
The Womens Network takes this opportunity to condemn the assassination of Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj on Saturday the 10th of November.
