JASS workshop held in Parapat, North Sumatra, Indonesia, June 9-14, 2008 (more)
Who’s new at JASS?
Azola Goqwana joins JASS Southern Africa as Program Associate. Azola started working on HIV/AIDS as a student volunteer in 2002. She went on to manage and implement the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s HIV/AIDS students peer education program, giving care and support to HIV positive students. Since then, Azola worked with several HIV/AIDS and gender organizations before joining JASS. (more)
Regional teams in Meso-America, Southern Africa, South-East Asia are implementing JASS’s bold four-year global initiative to build women’s collective power for a better world, through innovative women’s leadership, political analysis and education, advocacy and alliance-building.
Women are watching! Read the Petatera newsletters about the Observatorios de la Transgresión Feminista at the Nicaraguan elections and around the violence in Oaxaca. A third Observatorio focused on Costa Rica's CAFTA referendum – read what Alda Facio wrote about the demonstrations.
The Nobel Women's Initiative continues to lend the strength of their prestige to support the Observatorios de la Transgresión Feminista/ Feminist Transformation Watch. The NWI issued this strong statement(en español) in support of Nicaraguan feminist Dora María Tellez´ hunger strike to protest and halt steps by President Daniel Ortega to rescind the legal status of the political party she co-founded, the MRS Party (Movimiento Renovación Sandinista). Read their previous statement of solidarity with feminists mobilizing during the 2006 elections there.
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