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19-20 October 2011 (Seoul, South Korea)

We, the Women’s Major Group representatives at the Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for Rio+20 call on governments to reaffirm their commitments to Agenda 21 and the Beijing Platform for Action, and fulfill their obligations to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. We also call on governments to respect recent international agreements including the 2009 UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development where the causes and effects of the global economic, food and ecological crises were discussed and urgent measures adopted to achieve a less volatile macroeconomic environment for sustainable development, including making economic policies compatible with human rights obligations.

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August 17, 2011
Bangkok, Thailand

We, 52 women and men from 18 countries - Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China and Hongkong SAR, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Timor Leste, USA, and Vietnam - and representing peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, workers, women, youth and students, refugees and stateless persons, academia, environmental and support NGOs and networks met for the ‘Promoting a Transformative Agenda for Sustainable Development: A Strategy Workshop on Rio+20’ on August 15-17, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.

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25 October 2011

WLUML is deeply concerned that the first public act of the Libya's National Transition Committee has been to proclaim on October 23rd, 2011, that henceforth, a number of laws will be considered annulled and that 'sharia law' is to replace them. Libya’s National Transition Committee is an interim government – what it has responsibility for – and what its first action should have concerned, is to put into place a mechanism for elections for the new government after the fall of the Gaddafi regime.

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New York, October 24, 2011

Members of FemLINKPACIFIC’s regional media and policy network on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 are teaming up with Peacewomen from the Philippines to Serbia, the Caucuses, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Canada as part of the gender focal point network of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict to challenge the media status quo when it comes to the reporting of women, peace and security:

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For more information contact Marte Hellema +31641218172

New York
Monday 24 October 2011

International women peace activists from Fiji, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Philippines gathered in New York on the heels of the Occupy Wall Street Movement are determined to monitor and intervene in the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security this Friday. On the eve of the UN debate, a roundtable discussion will reaffirm their claim that it is time to invest in non violence not militarization:

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New York, 24 October 2011.

Eleven peacebuilding analysts from the Fiji Islands, Canada, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Phillippines and Serbia are gathering in New York this week as members of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) to advise the UN on ensuring a gender component in Libya's reconstruction process.