Dealing with conflict

Cambodian Women Land Rights Activists: “No one can silence us.”

“Khmer tradition dictates that women should just stay at home...My passion is to make women claim their rightful place in society even if it takes being behind these prison bars to prove this point,” said Kong Chantha, Cambodian land rights activist, while imprisoned, in December 2014.
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Dealing with conflict, Economic justice, Women’s human rights
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Filipino Women Push for Human Rights Defenders Law

Our JASS Southeast Asia team in the Philippines report that after more than a decade of persistent grassroots organizing and advocacy, legislation that would guarantee protection for human rights defenders (HRD) may finally come to fruition this year.
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Dealing with conflict, Violence, Women human rights defenders
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Mining ≠ Development: “We’re not going to eat minerals”

The reflections in this story offer a glimpse of the failed promise of mining as an economic development strategy for people, and underscore the need for local communities and justice activists to define and reclaim the meaning of “development.”
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Dealing with conflict, Economic justice, Violence
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#GlobalSisterhood: Building Solidarity Across the Americas

JASS and Move to End Violence organized a 10-day women-to-women cross-border exchange among 21 women of color activists leading grassroots women’s organizing in the U.S., with JASS Mesoamerica and our allies from Guatemala and Honduras. The exchange aimed to build cross-border connections and learning, and explore how to connect our strategies to combat violence, climate change, corruption, and the crises of governance in our countries.
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Alliance-building, Dealing with conflict, Economic justice
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Authoritarianism. Militarism. Fundamentalism. Extractivism. While contexts differ, the convergence of these four trends have become fertile ground for escalating violence against women and women activists around the world.
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Dealing with conflict, Economic justice, Feminist movement-building
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Zimbabwe - Can we count on your support?

Zimbabwe is in trouble. We are writing on behalf of our Zimbabwean staff and allies who are on the frontlines of this political and economic crisis to ask for your help.
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Dealing with conflict, Economic justice, Violence
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#HealingSolidarity Conference

This week, we’re asking tough questions about international development at Healing Solidarity, a free online conference on how to better our practices in international development. Check out our related resources for tools and how-to's!
Topic:
Dealing with conflict, Feminist popular education, Power analysis
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crossregional dialogue, discrimination, leadership, ngo-isation, self care

Experts Investigating Mexico's Ayotzinapa Case Face a 'Coordinated Defamation Campaign'

JASS joins other human rights organizations in condemning the coordinated campaign gaining greater coverage in the Mexican media against the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its acronym in Spanish) which is providing crucial technical assistance in the investigation of the 43 forcibly disappeared students from Ayotzinapa.
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Dealing with conflict, Violence, Women human rights defenders
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Hope as a survival strategy for Defensoras in Honduras

We're living in an undeclared war, staring into the eyes of death daily. People who don’t know the kind of insecurity women human rights defenders confront every day can’t imagine how hope helps us to survive. The women of Honduras want others to know that we are building a more peaceful and just world every day, and they can join us.
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Dealing with conflict, Violence, Women human rights defenders
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Guatemala: Hope Goes Viral

Guatemalan citizens did what many saw as, “the impossible.” Led by university students adept at social media, they mobilized a unified demand for justice that hadn’t been seen in the country in decades—bringing together all Guatemalan voices, including urban middle class, women and indigenous and rural peoples.
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Dealing with conflict, Media and communications (ICT), Power analysis
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