• 23 Sept 2008
  - Call for the immediate release of leading Burma Women Human Rights Defender, Nilar Thein
  - please contact apwld@apwld.org should you wish to endorse or sign the petition



• 25 August 2008, NEPAL: APPEAL FOR GENDER SENSITIVE RELIEF EFFORTS: FLOODS IN NEPAL



• Aug 4 2008, Indonesia - Joint Call: Free the Peasants of Kelompok Tani Masyarakat Ingin Makmur (KTMIM) and Investigate the violation of human rights in Banjaran village, Secanggang subdistrict, Langkat district



• 16 June 2008, NEPAL: AN APPEAL FOR SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT -  Women Human Rights Defender Murdered
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  Dear All, Please inform worec.whrd@gmail.com once you have endorsed this call for action. In Solidarity, Dr. Renu Rajbhandari Coordinator, NAWHRDs Jyotsna Maskay Executive Director Programme Coordinator for  Women Human Rights Defenders Campaign WOREC P. O. Box 13233 Balkumari, Lalitpur Nepal Phone: 977-1-5006373/74, Fax: 977-1-5006271 Email: worec.whrd@gmail.com Website: www.worecnepal.org

  
  
  
• 23 June 2008, Indonesia: Make Indonesia Safe! Stop Brutal Actions in the name of Religion!
  
  
  
  • Testimony
  • Sample letter
  
  
• June 2, 2008 Urgent: The lives of over 140,000 refugees from Burma at stake
  
  
• 30 May 2008, India - CALL FOR ACTION 2008, 28TH OF MAY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON WOMEN'S HEALTH
  
  
• Bougainville : Why was Magdalene Toroansi sacked from Cabinet this week?
  
  
• 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
  
  

"For a long time, others spoke on our behalf. Now we speak for ourselves."

Communique of the IMA Founding Assembly
IMA Constitution
IMA Basis of Unity
General Program of Action
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Fundamentalisms in Asia Pacific: Trends, Impact, Challenges and Strategies Asserting Women’s Rights. To develop its understanding of fundamentalisms, their impact on women and their relationship with contemporary political and economic developments, APWLD initiated the fundamentalisms paper which evolved through a two-year process of interactive dialogue and discussions within the programmes and governance bodies of APWLD. Now published in print, the book maps the manifestations of fundamentalisms in the region as country overviews, presents the impact of fundamentalisms on women as well as on democracy and politics in general and documents strategies adopted by women’s groups and progressive women’s movements to resist these developments. Written by Madhu Mehra, member of APWLD Women’s Human Rights Working Group, the Fundamentalisms book is a work in progress framework paper which now available in print.

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News about APWLD activities in
September2007 - May 2008
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The compiling of the Women and Food Sovereignty Kit has been a challenging and difficult piece of work, in more than one way. The need to include the experiences of women activists and to ensure that women’s voices are included in the kit, necessitated that the manual was not developed in isolation. Hence, the Kit reflects the work and commitment of a number of institutions, and individuals. The input by a number of individuals in the conceptualization of the manual, and inclusion of essential material, has been the basis of the final piece of work. The enthusiasm and energy shown at the beginning has been the reason that the project has seen completion.

The Women and Food Sovereignty Kit in part reflects the learnings of women activists engaged directly with peasant women in the Asian region, and is partly a response to the need reflected by organizations and activists working with grassroot women in the rural area. The dearth of a single compilation which could be used by grassroot activist engaged in the mobilization of peasant women to understand Globalization and its direct attack on their ability to safeguard not only food but livelihood for themselves and their families, and responses developed by peasant communities against the encroachment of corporate agriculture in their lives was the major thrust that resulted in the development of the Kit.

It is hoped that the Kit will be used widely and would be of help to activists in the Asian region and beyond. It is well understood that the Kit as it is used will need many changes to incorporate the needs of our sisters, their experiences, insights and learning. It is hope that feedback and criticisms will be sent back to us at APWLD, and we would find ways and means to incorporate new learning to help further the advocacy for food sovereignty.

This Kit will be adapted and translated in at least five languages for more appropriate use in local communities – Urdu (Pakistan), Ilokano (Cordillera Province of the Philippines), Malayalam (Kerala, India), Thai and Bahasa (Indonesia). We offer this as APWLD’s contribution to the organising and mobilising of women at the grassroots level, as they struggle against globalization and collectively assert women’s rights to land and food.

Towards food sovereignty,

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