Send an email to help keep up the pressure to ensure the release of these courageous feminist activists. Tell Friends to take action to help the imprisoned Iranian women's rights activists - we need all the voices we can get! The nearly 20,000 thousand letters you sent asking the Iranian government to release Noushin Ebadi, sister of human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, and other human rights activists from prison have made an impact!
Some 200 European and Mediterranean women will jump on their bikes this November and cycle for peace from Lebanon to Jordan to draw attention to the plight of women and children in the region - particularly the West Bank And Gaza. The group, aged 18 and above, will pedal for one week, beginning Nov.
Every year on the 8th of March, women all over the world commemorate the International Women's Day
for the advancement of the lives of women and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and
oppression. However, in Burma we are not allowed to observe this day.
The Palestine Solidarity Movement at Rutgers University is organizing the Third North American Conference. Since Rutgers Administration is acting to cancel the conference, the Palestine Solidarity Movement calls individuals to sign a petition to demand Rutgers University to reinstate the Conference in campus.
Several hundred Palestinian women have held a silent protest in the West Bank town of Ram Allah, demanding legislation to protect women from so-called honour killings.
WLP partner, Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTD-A), has received individual donations and funders' pledges amounting to $53,000. Thank you for your generous support! Of this amount, $11,500 cash was available on Saturday. Relief kits and cleaning kits for $11,000 have been purchased and distributed as of today.
We made clear that no walls would stand between the people. Some two hundred Palestinians, 35 Israelis and a similar number of internationals gathered yesterday in the village of Zububa to mark the international day of solidarity against the wall, by tearing a portion of it down. Our day started much earlier though.
The International Community, including the High Contracting Parties of the Geneva Conventions and international governmental and non-governmental humanitarian organizations, are called on to prevent a further deterioration in the humanitarian conditions for civilians in the Gaza Strip.
