This 19-day course aims to provide the participants with context-specific and gender-sensitive knowledge on sexuality and sexual and reproductive health in Southeast Asia and China. The deadline for applications is 30 June 2008.
Coinciding with the opening of the Beijing Olympics on August 8, 2008, this group of organizations will launch an international campaign to bring Burma's General Than Shwe and the military regime in Burma to justice.
A cross-cultural radio seminar for women broadcasters on community radio and peace building, climate change and disaster management in conjunction with the 2nd AMARC Asia Pacific Community Radio Conference in Bangalore.
The objective of the campaign is to involve as many people as possible in the campaign for nationwide and global peace by giving minutes spent in thoughts of peace through silence, prayer, or meditation and sharing minutes of peace by doing acts of peace. It allows people to take a break from their daily routines to think peaceful thoughts and do peaceful acts , thereby achieving inner peace and contributing to peace in our world.
This is a letter regarding the conflict between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Philippine government following the temporary restraining order against the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between both parties.
Six political activists are at grave risk of torture and ill-treatment after they were detained by police in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province (NAD). At least five of them are human rights defenders, who are believed to have been arrested solely for their peaceful expression of their political beliefs, and their work in defense of human rights.
KWAT strongly condemns the impunity and this act of crime against humanity and lack of rule of law in Burma. We stand firmly and support the family's call for justice and we demand all Burmese military stations pull out from Kachin State. We also call upon the UN Security council look at its own Resolution 1820 by indicting Burma's generals at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the systematic use of rape by the Burmese army.
Political dialogue is the only means by which Burma's existing political conflicts can be effectively resolved. To that end, the military government- the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)- must immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners including, but not limited to, U Tin Oo, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Khun Htun Oo, Sai Nyunt Lwin, Ven.
The toolkit, which is a media initiative of femLINKPACIFIC, a Suva based women's media NGO that has served as the regional media focal point on behalf of The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) and its local Pacific partners, Pacific People Building Peace (PPBP) for the last 3 years.
To support the North Sumatra's Women Activists Coalition campaign – “Vote for Women” – JASS SEA is partnering in media production, including a television talk show and the Suara Perempuan newsletter.
