General Women, Peace and Security

Dear Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt,

The Swedish Government lately announced an initiative to host an international conference in support of security and peace in Iraq, scheduled to be held by the end of May, 2008. This initiative comes in compliance with Iraqi government pursue to spread rule of law, and mobilize reconstruction and development programmes,

Dear Fredrik Reinfeldt,

Kvinna till Kvinna welcomes Your and Sweden's initiative to host an international conference about Iraq, with the purpose of discussing the non-military support of the International Community to Iraq. The conference will give an opportunity to Sweden and the International Community to consider new possibilities on how peace and security can be built in Iraq with civil methods.

This article focuses on women's involvement and participation in peace and security issues on the regional level in June 2008. In the beginning of the month, femLINKPACIFIC participated in the Forum Regional Security Committee (FRSC) and they worked to further advance women, peace, and security issues in official spaces. The following is an excerpt from the article:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.