The Asian Women's Human Rights Council launched the Mindanao Women's Peace Caravan's Campaign, with the purpose of involving women leaders and grassroots in Mindanao for dialogue, consultations, and peace agenda setting to promote the status of women in Mindanao among the LUMAD, Muslims and other sectors in the context of the conflict situation raging in some parts of Mindanao.
The Mindanao Peoples Caucus (MPC), and its secretariat, the Initiatives for International Dialogue, presented a statement calling both the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to stop the new war in Pikit. As official armed forces and tanks arrived in Pikit, the residents of up to 11 Pikit barangays started an exodus to safer areas. Now in Pikit, there are an estimated 4,000 evacuee families or 20,000 individuals.
The “Mindanao Peaceweavers" supports the holding of exploratory talks between the Philippine government (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 19-20, and hopes that the meeting if successful will lead to the resumption of formal talks.
The meeting will focus on the work of the Commission to promote multiculturalism as a basis for peace in Mindanao rather than the source of conflict in Mindanao. Organized for the first time in 2000, this is the second such meeting to be held for peace and development in Mindanao. This meeting will take place on August 31-September 1 at the Loleng's Mountain Resort.
Women are at the center of conflicts and wars, both overt and silent. They bear the brunt of violence in different forms, whether in their personal lives or from armed conflicts within their own communities or among nations of the world.
On the 23rd November 2009, there was an election-related massacre that happened in Maguindanao, Philippines.More than 40 people were killed, many of them women. Some of the women were raped before they were shot dead.There are no clear reports as to how many women were killed, though today, reports suggest that there were 57 victims, MOSTLY women.
The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development mourn the loss of two brave women, human rights defenders. Concepcion ‘Connie' Brizuela and Cynthia Oquendo were among the 57 people murdered on November 23 in Maguindanao, Philippines.
The workshop is intended for gender and media activists, peace activists, journalists, creative non-fiction writers, creative communicators and young academics.
The Young Women of the YWCA of PNG have denounced news reports of girls being traded in exchange for firearms in the Western Highlands Province.The Young women's Desk Coordinator, Okera Amini, said trading young girls for guns is a total violation of girls and women's rights, their dignity and devalues a girls life.
A women's media update from femLINKPACIFIC & Vois Blong Mere Solomons - a collaboration supported by UNIFEM Pacific
A daily media scan is assisting UNIFEM in the Solomon Islands collate information on monitoring the recurrence of conflict. This is all part of a global series of pilot projects which are monitoring peace and conflict using Gendered Early Warning Indicators, as Dr Annalise Moser explained to femLINKPACIFIC:
