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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#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!

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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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President Obama: Break Barriers to Post-Rape Care

During 16 Days of Activism on December 9, JASS Crossregional Program Director, Carrie Wilson spoke at a White House Rally on behalf of the International Campaign to Stop Rape and Gender Violence in Conflict—which JASS is a member of the advisory committee. This rally called on U.S.

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Dealing with conflict, Violence, Women’s human rights

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Solidarity with Our Sisters in Gaza

To our sisters in Gaza: We, the women of JASS in Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and the United States, extend our hearts and our solidarity to our Palestinian sisters in Gaza. We strongly condemn the attacks by the state of Israel on communities in Gaza under "Operation Protective Edge" launched on July 7 and the subsequent land invasion. These actions violate the ceasefire agreement, and destroy lives and the chance for a just and lasting peace.

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Dealing with conflict, Violence, Women human rights defenders

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Young Activists Push for Change in Cambodia

Even with the government's crackdown on activists' plans to organize on International Women's Day, the young women of JASS-inspired network CYWEN plan to make their voices heard, and help advance the momentum for change that is looming on the horizon in Cambodia.

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Dealing with conflict, Economic justice, Young Women

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145 Organizations Call on US & Mesoamerican Presidents to Reevaluate Regional Security Policies

As Heads of State from Mexico, Central America and the United States prepare to meet for the Summit of the Central American Integration System (SICA) in Costa Rica on May 4 and 5th, JASS (Just Associates), the America's Program, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission-USA and the Center for Economic and Policy Research collaborated, with others, to

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Dealing with conflict, Violence, Women human rights defenders

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civil society, democracy & elections, drug war, militarization, well-being