ICTJ's Pivot Pictures, in partnership with Julie Bridgham (Butter Lamp Films) and our local Nepali partner Media for Development, is planning a two-year, high impact outreach campaign for The Sari Soldiers in Nepal.
View the film at at a one week exclusive screening at IFC in New York City.
WLB has put forth a tremendous idea for confronting the shameful participation of the SPDC (State Peace and Development Council, the government of Myanmar) at the ASEM meeting in Hanoi in October 2004 and in regional ASEAN meetings. They want to remind ASEAN of its shocking coming of age birthday party on the 8th of the 8th 1988.
Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia (WIPSA) visited Jammu and Kashmir from 24th June to 3rd July 2000. The purpose of the visit was to support the creation of women's intervention for peace in the region. At Jammu they were welcomed by the local organization Akhil Bharat Rachmnatmak Samaj which expressed their solidarity with the mission. Together they organized a rally for peace from the station to the center of the city.
The Karen Women's Organization is a community-based organization of Karen women working in development/relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with IDPs inside Burma. The objectives of the KWO are to empower Karen women, to increase women's participation in decision-making at all levels and to achieve equality with men.
Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace organized a roundtable in December 2000 to discuss the important role fo women in peacebuilding and reconciliation initiatives in Kashmir. A group of women and men from Jammu and Kashmir representing different ages, communities, backgrounds ans political orientations participated in the roundtable discussion.
ATHWAAS, which meaning is a warm greeting or shake of the hand, is a women initiative that look to build safe spaces for women in Kashmir. A group of women and men have been travel on a field trip to North and South Kashmir as well as to Purkho and Muthi camps of Jamunu, to listen to people experiences on both sides of the conflict.
Message to all our friends inside Burma and around the world
Friends,
June 19, 2007 is the 62nd birthday of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She has now been in detention for nearly 11 years and 8 months since 20 July 1989.
The Athwaas initiative, from the Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, organized a Kahsmiri Women's Writers Meeting in Srinagar. About 30 women, Muslim and Hindu, gathered to express in their literature their suffering as well as the Kashmir tragedy they share.
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Independence Day for Burma. However, the people of Burma have not had a chance to enjoy the fruits of independence. Instead, until today, most people in Burma have been suffering from the military dictatorship's oppression, unlawful acts, brutality and militarized slavery.
Senior General Than Shwe's denial of international humanitarian aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis should come as no surprise to the international community. This negligence and refusal of access is part and parcel of the criminal nature of the regime and reflects their fear that the entire world will see first hand the results of decades of systematic human rights violations, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
