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Despite many protests, United States Marine Corporal Daniel Smith was returned to US custody by an order that came from the Department of Interior and Local Government. Smith, a corporal participating in the military exercises under the Philippine-US Visiting Forces Agreement at Subic Bay, north of Manila, was found guilty of raping 23-year-old “Nicole” in November 2005. Found guilty by a local court—the Makati City Regional Trial Court—on December 4, 2006, Smith was admitted in the Makati City Jail until he was turned over to US custody on the night of December 29.

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Even as the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit was postponed, women’s and feminist organisations came together for a workshop on “Women Re-claiming the ASEAN Community as a Democratic Project” at the 2nd ASEAN Civil Society Conference in Cebu, Philippines on 10-12 December. The conference was supposed to be held parallel to the Summit—where the leaders of Southeast Asian countries were supposed to talk about issues confronting the region.

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Women's organisations around the world are being asked for country-level support to the  proposed women's agency in the United Nations (UN).

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“Transforming Democracy: Feminist Visions and Strategies” is the theme of the 3rd Feminist Dialogues which will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from January 17 to 19, 2007.

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Isis International-Manila is inviting media practitioners, researchers, and academics to send articles for the upcoming issue of Women in Action (WIA) Vol. 3. This WIA issue will look at how the media environments in the Asia-Pacific countries carry messages of development, particularly, how media facilitates and/or hinders participation of citizens in democracy for development in the region.

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“Celebrate 16 Years of 16 Days: Advance Human Rights <—> End Violence Against Women.” This is the theme of this year’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence” international campaign that runs from November 25 to December 10. For 16 days every year since 1991, individuals and groups around the world call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women, non-stop.