• Hongkong - On Intl Womens Day, HK FDWs march for pay hike As women and as migrants, we have the right for substantive and commensurate wage increase
  
  
• Chiang Mai, Thailand Walking for Working Women

• Activists held HAROLD KOI Friday, April 11, 2008
  
  
• Feb 26 2008 - Shamima stands her ground
  
  
• 14 February 2008 FWCC condemns bullying tactics
  
  
• 12 February 2008 FWRM APPEARS IN COURT OVER MEDIA STATEMENT
  
  
• Feb 11 2008 - illegal appointments compromise judiciary- fwrm
  
  
• To read the Fiji Sun article Unlawful Appointments, click here
  

• Philippines - STOP POLITICAL PERSECUTION AGAINST CONGRESSWOMAN LIZA MAZA, Gabriela Women's Party Representative
  
  
• Media Alert: Relief Assistance to Cyclone Affected People Must Be Burma's Top Priority
  
  
• Immediate action required in response to the death by suffocation of 54 Burmese migrants and the manner of treatment afforded to the survivors of the incident by the Thai authorities
  
  
• Call to join the open questionnaire on the gang-rape by US soldiers happened last October 2007 in Hiroshima, Japan - "Military Bases and Women" Network
  
  
• Chiang Mai, Thailand protest action: Stop the Killings and arrests in Tibet! Stop supporting Burma's dictators!
  
  
  
• By February 18! Call for your signature : Okinawa rape case by a US Marine
  
  
• Women's human rights activists urge Parliament of Mongolia to cancel no quota law for women parliamentarian candidates
  
  
• APWLD condemns Benazir Bhutto Assassination
  
  
• Press Release December 18 2007 Letter
  
  
• International Migrants Day 18 December 2007
  Celebrations
  
  
• FREE ANGIE IPONG
  
  
• Women around the world launch campaign to free women human rights defenders in Burma
  
  
• Bangladesh
  
  

  The cyclone SIDR has caused horrific devastation and loss of life in the south-western coastal districts of Bangladesh. The death toll continues to rise as more and more bodies are found. Distraught people are recounting how one child slipped away while they were trying to save another, or how they watched their mother or father being swept away. Entire villages have been raised to the ground, not a tree, not a house standing. The Naripokkho-WHRAP project’s working area took the major brunt of the cyclone. Our two field researchers have lost their homes and 14 out of 18 partner organisations’ offices and staffs are directly affected. These are located in Pathorghata, Barguna Sadar, Bamna, Amtali, Betagi, Mirzaganj, Kalapara, Bauphal, Dashmina, Bakerganj, Bhandaria, Jhalakathi, Rajapur, and Mathbaria Upazilas.   Naripokkho is contributing in a very small way to the emergency relief efforts of our partner organisations through contribution in cash and kind (clothing, blankets, shawls). The Naripokkho Network Project is mobilising support for the 81 member organisations in the affected area and the Naripokkho VAW Monitoring Project is extending support to two partner organisations in Satkhira and Bhola. We are appealing to all friends and partners to contribute in whatever way they can to the effort. Bangladesh Women’s Health Coalition has already informed us that they are sending over clothing contributed by BWHC staff. Sincerely, Shireen Huq Coordinator Naripokkho-WHRAP E-mail: naripok@aitbd.net Website: www.naripokkho.com   Naripokkho account details for receiving financial contributions: Naripokkho Account Number 1145 Uttara Bank Limited Satmasjid Road Branch Dhanmandi R.A. Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh

  
  
• Asma Jangir, 1995 MARTIN ENNALS AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS Laureate, and APWLD member put on house arrest
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• Justice for Lakshmi! An Urgent Appeal from Tamil Nadu Women's Movement
  
  
• Appeal to all governments - HRC special session on Burma
  
  

  APWLD joins peaceful assembly for Burma, September 28, 2007, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  
  
• Badi Women Human Rights Defenders Attacked and Detaine
  
  
  
  
• Letter of Solidarity and Appeal for UN Special Rapporteur Sigma Huda
  
  
• Manila, February 21 2007. Statement of Phillip Alston, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
  
  

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