• 4 July 2008, Mongolia: Civil Society Organisations issue two statements, as Mongolia is put under a State of Emergency to quell election-related riots
  • Regret English
  • Human Rights NGOs



• 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
For more information about IMA, please visit: http://ima-2008.blogspot.com

Action Alerts

• June 2, 2008 Urgent: The lives of over 140,000 refugees from Burma at stake



• 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



• Women around the world launch campaign to free women human rights defenders in Burma



• Appeal to all governments - HRC special session on Burma

Statements

• 19 June 2008 - WLB renews call for immediate release of Daw AungSan Suu Kyi



• 17 June 2008 - World Bank & ADB cautioned against increasing engagement with Burma's military regime following post-Nargis assessment- ECDF



• 6 June 2008, Geneva- Joint Oral Statement delivered by Ms. Yuyun Wahyuningrum: Follow-up to the special session on the situation of human rights in Myanmar  



• Referendum Must Be Called Off & International Aid Allowed In 



• WLB statement on the 60th anniversary of Burma's Independence Day

More on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi – link to http://www.dassk.com/
More on Burma updates including Cyclone Nargis link to: http://www.apppb.blogspot.com/
Burmese Movement – link to http://www.womenofburma.org/

• 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
  

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