Virtual Exchange: Discussing Approaches to End Violence against Women To South Pacific (Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea) and Sri-Lanka

11 May 2021 – Despite current travel restrictions, AJAR and our partners continue to maintain strong networks to support each other virtually in the fight to end violence against women in the Asia-Pacific region. Together with our partners ACbit and FONGTIL, AJAR hosted a virtual exchange event to discuss approaches to end violence against women […]

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Training on Gender and Women Empowerment: Participatory Action Research methods & Reduce poverty

Dili, 14 April 2021 – Together with ACbit and FONGTIL, AJAR hosted a training workshop on gender and women empowerment with the use of participatory action research methods to reduce poverty.  This training was carried out with the aim of stimulating the efforts of women’s empowerment focused on economic and Social empowerment. This includes addressing […]

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[WEBINAR] Hutan dan Jati Diri Perempuan Papua: Forests and Papuan Women Identity

Jakarta, 29 Maret 2021 – There has been a widespread phenomenon of palm-turned-forests in Papua. Unfortunately, the impact it has caused is often missed by the media. On 29 March 2021 in AJAR Official Youtube platform, Mama Frida from Papuan Working Group (PWG), Elvira Rumkabu from Universitas Cendrawasih, and Andy Triani from Komnas Perempuan (National […]

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Assessment on the condition and business opportunity in Baucau municipality through Participatory Action Research Workshop

Baucau, 22 February 2021 – The Participatory Action Research (PAR) workshop was done during two days which was facilitated by Mr. Jose Luis de Oliveira and Ms. Joviana Guterres of AJAR Timor-Leste. Participants shared their personal experiences with gender-based violence and expressed their feelings. Participants also shared their vision and feelings for their future. With […]

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Enduring Impunity in the Time of Corona: Survey of the Human Rights Victims Condition Facing COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

From April to mid-May 2020, the Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) worked with AJAR together with KontraS Sulawesi, Fopperham Yogyakarta, PASKA Aceh, JPIC Synod GKI in Tanah Papua, IKOHI, LBH Bandung, KIPPER Yogyakarta, JPIT NTT, El-Addper Merauke, Jayapura Support Group, ELSHAM Papua, KATANE Support Group Merauke, and Labarik Lakon to conduct a joint survey to […]

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Indonesia: Global Initiatives for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Site-Visit Day

“The Aceh TRC has a mandate for exhumation, but in terms of budget and resources, they are even struggling to get other stuff done. So the mass graves are sort of put to the side,” Galuh Wandita, director of AJAR and commissioner of Aceh TRC, told participants during GIJTR’s site-visit day at AJAR’s Learning Centre […]

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Timor-Leste: Mobilising Youth for Change — AJAR’s Human Rights and Social Justice School for Young Changemakers

Ines Maia is a 27-year-old from Bobonaro District, Timor-Leste. Already an active member of a student group, Ines took a deeper dive into her passion by enrolling in AJAR Timor-Leste’s ‘Human Rights and Social Justice School for Young Changemakers’. “(This school) is an alternative mechanism to expose the Timorese society to a global perspective,” she […]

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Regional: Strengthening Survivors, Moving Towards Accountability in Asia

Southeast Asian cities have much in common: urban sprawl, the hustle and bustle of daily life, colourful street flair, impossibly crowded roads, and history of tenuous human rights protections and unresolved impunity for mass human rights violations. Like a typical traffic jam in a Southeast Asian metropolis, accountability has had some jolts forward and many […]

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Timor-Leste: International Educators’ Workshop on Strengthening the Capacity for Education on History and Violence Prevention

AJAR, Centro Nacional Chega! (CNC), and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) conducted an “International Educators’ Workshop on Strengthening the Capacity for Education on History and Violence Prevention” on 25-28 June 2018 in Dili, Timor-Leste. The workshop is a continuation of the workshop in Cambodia, January 2018 and is part of the joint […]

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