To support the North Sumatra's Women Activists Coalition campaign – “Vote for Women” – JASS SEA is partnering in media production, including a television talk show and the Suara Perempuan newsletter.

Under the slogan of “Saharawi Women: A mobilization force for the National Idependence and Progress”, the IV Congress of the National Union of Sahara Women issued a declaration urging the application of the United Nations peace plan and Houston agreements in Western Sahara.

Sudanese Women living in refugee camps in eastern Chad are facing rape and other forms of violence. Outside the camps, they face a range of abuses from harassment and threats to physical attacks, committed by members of opposition armed groups, bandits and members of the Chadian security forces.

Recognizing the urgent need to address the political, structural and cultural barriers to mainstreaming Emergency Contraception in the region, the Pacific Institute organized the first ever Southeast Asian Workshop on Strategies to Promote Access to Emergency Contraception from October 24 to 26, 2002 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Regional Dialogues on Women Building Peace

'Strengthening Women Building Peace in South Asia', Kathmandu, June 25-28, 2001

25,000 posters carrying the phrase: "WAR WILL NEVER WIN PEACE - SAY YES TO CEASEFIRE TO WIN PEACE" were printed and pasted in 16 districts through the National Peace Council network, including some of the areas controlled by the the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Batticaloa, Trincomalee, and Mannar districts.

A civil society vigil was held in honor of the 100 days of the ceasefire agreement. Also, a photo exhibition with a total of 260 photos was organized at the John de Silva Art Gallery in Colombo in commemoration of the 100 days of ceasefire. The reactions from the viewers encouraged the National Peace Council to take this exhibition around the country.

Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) jointly with the National Peace Council from Sri Lanka, organized a workshop that brought together Naga Peace activists and social scientists and their Sri Lankan counterparts, to encourage peace-making skills through a programme of dialogues. This was the first of the series of dialogues.

ilar Thein, a woman human rights defender and leading pro-democracy activist was arrested on 10 September 2008 and is currently being held at the Aung Tha Pyay Detention Centre in Rangoon, where she is at risk of torture and ill-treatment. WLB urgently appeals for her release and demands that the SPDC treat her humanely.

Moved by the sufferings, human rights violantions and inhuman conditions reigning in their country, the National Union of Sahara Women urged individuals world-wide, humanitarian organizations and the international community, particularly the United Nations, to assume their responsibility in the protection of human rights in the occuppied territories of Western Sahara.