Victims continue to seek justice for the February 2002 attacks against the Muslim minority in Gujarat, India. Violence against women and girls was a key feature of the attacks and authorities have failed to convict perpetrators and bring victims legal redress.
WOMEN GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD CALL ON THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TO PROSECUTE SENIOR GENERAL THAN SHWE AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: IT'S TIME FOR THE UNITED NATIONS TO TAKE STRONG ACTION ON BURMA
June 25, 2009 - Letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Members of the UN Security Council
Public meetings and rallies will be organiZed in the source areas and local NGOs are participating in this movement. Donors are invited to come forward to support our movement.
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Women Making Peace and National Council for Peace on the Korean Peninsula (South Korea) is making an international appeal to oppose war provocation in Korea and to resolve the North Korean issue by peaceful means.
Nobel Women's Initiative: The UN Security Council must take strong action on Burma and issue an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Burmese military regime. This was the message sent by 14 Nobel Laureates—including The Dalai Lama, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Dae-jung and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in an open letter to the Security Council.
Since 1996, Zenska Infoteka–Women's Information and Documentation Center, is organizing annual seminar from the series "Women and Politics", which brings together women from Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Union Republics and Middle East.
The International Gender Policy Network (IGPN) is a membership based, non-governmental organization and has been established in autumn 2005 in order to strengthen and foster the policy work impact of the woman's movement and to ensure the sustainability of women's movements in the Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia.
The Swedish Government lately announced an initiative to host an international conference in support of security and peace in Iraq, scheduled to be held by the end of May, 2008. This initiative comes in compliance with Iraqi government pursue to spread rule of law, and mobilize reconstruction and development programmes,
Kvinna till Kvinna welcomes Your and Sweden's initiative to host an international conference about Iraq, with the purpose of discussing the non-military support of the International Community to Iraq. The conference will give an opportunity to Sweden and the International Community to consider new possibilities on how peace and security can be built in Iraq with civil methods.
The conference, which is planned for the end of May, aims to clarify the support of the international community for Iraq's development, and for the central role assigned to the United Nations by Security Council Resolution 1770. The detailed plan for the conference will be discussed with Iraq, the United Nations and other partners.
