We, the participants of the 3rd Peoples Forum of Peace for Life gathered at the April 3rd Peace Park on Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea from 23rd to 27th of October 2013. We held a women-led solidarity mission to Jeju and Gangjeong Village, sharing common experiences of the threats to life in our respective societies and throughout the world. Inspired by our faith traditions shared affirmations of life, we issue this call to solidarity and action.

This paper was presented by Prof. Pamela K Brubaker, Professor Emerita of Religion from the California Lutheran University, in time for 3rd People’s Forum on Peace for Life held last October 26-27, 2013 in Jeju Island, South Korea.

Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity carried out a protest at the Lahore Press Club, Punjab, Pakistan to register public resistance against the World Trade Organization (WTO) which is going hold its its 9th Ministerial Meeting December 3-6, 2013 in Bali, Indonesia.

Hold Pres. Aquino and Sec. Alcala accountable for the plunder of farmer’s money and food insecurity in the country.  Women from urban poor and rural communities in Manila and Rizal storm the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture to demand the roll back the price of rice to P25 per kilo.

Close to 80 women and their allies turned out to the International Women’s Alliance meeting in New York, October 5, 2013, hosted by local member groups including the Women’s Fightback Network and Gabriela USA.

This is a statement by the Alliance of  Yogyakarta Civil Society Against the Forest Investment Plan condemning the Indonesian government’s Forest Investment Program (FIP); specifically its negative impacts on the lives and livelihoods of Indonesian rural women and men. In line with this, the  Alliance also staged a protest action in front of the venue of the FIP Pilot Countries Meeting last September 24, 2013. 

This feature story of Shanthi Gangadaran (India) is based on the journal entries of one of eight women who wrote in the pages of the Asian rural women’s traveling journal. The journal traveled in eight countries in Asia for six months, becoming a rich repository of insights, experiences, and timely demands of rural women regarding food and agriculture.

IWA congratulates the women of the Middle East led by the Democratic Free Women Movement for the First Middle East Women’s Conference, and for taking a significant step to advance the peoples’ struggle for life and freedom.

Pesticide Action Network strongly supports the proposal by Burkina Faso and the Chemical Review Committee to list Gramoxone Super, corresponding to paraquat dichloride at or above 200g/L of paraquat ion as a Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulation in Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention.

GABRIELA National Alliance of Filipino Women sends their solidarity to the workers and the rest of the people of Bangladesh and all over the world and demand for justice for the victims and by making the capitalists who forced workers to work without regard for safety, accountable for this tragedy.

“The women united will never be defeated!” and “¡Sí, se puede!” were two of the popular chants during a spirited two-hour speakout at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial in Manhattan on March 9.

The Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers (ATKI-Indonesia) joined the People Struggle Front (FPR) with the other women mass organizations to express their aspirations and demands to the Govt Of Indonesia related issues of IMWs that are major of women’s on the theme “Indonesia Women Rise Against All Forms of Violence”.

On March 8th, International Working Women’s Day, GABRIELA USA will join with multi-ethnic women and from im/migrant and working class communities across the US to demand an end to the suffering and violence afflicting Filipina women and children amidst heightening contradictions of a global imperialist system.

Women’s groups led by the militant women’s alliance GABRIELA marched to Mendiola this afternoon protesting the unhampered plunder of resources and the ruin of Philippine patrimony resulting from the Aquino government’s unqualified surrender to US policy dictates.

The International Women’s Alliance (IWA) calls on women all over the globe to advance their ongoing struggles against imperialist globalization and the crisis of capitalism by mobilizing with militant actions on March 8th, 2013 to commemorate International Working Women’s Day.

The International Women’s Alliance (IWA) expresses its support to the One Billion Rising Campaign and solidarity with the women of the world in the fight to end violence against women.