This 19-day course aims to provide the participants with context-specific and gender-sensitive knowledge on sexuality and sexual and reproductive health in Southeast Asia and China. The deadline for applications is 30 June 2008.

For more information:www.seaconsortium.net

Coinciding with the opening of the Beijing Olympics on August 8, 2008, this group of organizations will launch an international campaign to bring Burma's General Than Shwe and the military regime in Burma to justice.

Listing 526 Saharawi Disappeared, the International Bureau for the Respect of Human Rights in Western Sahara appeals the Moroccan government to free all the Saharawi Disappeared, to deliver justice to all those released in 1991, and to complete the list of the disappeared who have died in detention and return their remains and certificate of death to their families.

This is a letter regarding the conflict between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Philippine government following the temporary restraining order against the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain between both parties.

Alert's dedicated Training and Learning Team is comprised of experienced training professionals drawn from a wide range of backgrounds, including peacebuilding, mediation, development, humanitarian response and election observation.

Six political activists are at grave risk of torture and ill-treatment after they were detained by police in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province (NAD). At least five of them are human rights defenders, who are believed to have been arrested solely for their peaceful expression of their political beliefs, and their work in defense of human rights.

KWAT strongly condemns the impunity and this act of crime against humanity and lack of rule of law in Burma. We stand firmly and support the family's call for justice and we demand all Burmese military stations pull out from Kachin State. We also call upon the UN Security council look at its own Resolution 1820 by indicting Burma's generals at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the systematic use of rape by the Burmese army.

Political dialogue is the only means by which Burma's existing political conflicts can be effectively resolved. To that end, the military government- the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)- must immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners including, but not limited to, U Tin Oo, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Khun Htun Oo, Sai Nyunt Lwin, Ven.

The UN-INSTRAW/CAWTAR project "Strengthening Women's Leadership and Participation in politics and decision-making process in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia” is launching its new website. Using the latest communications knowledge, the site aims to diffuse information, engage key stakeholders and facilitate a participatory approach in its access and use.

The toolkit, which is a media initiative of femLINKPACIFIC, a Suva based women's media NGO that has served as the regional media focal point on behalf of The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) and its local Pacific partners, Pacific People Building Peace (PPBP) for the last 3 years.