After played an active role in the 18-month “Year of Truth” campaign, under the Coalition for Justice and Truth (KKPK) in 2013-2014 –which is effectively create a new space for victims to voicing their experiences and highlighting the link between impunity and the denial of ongoing issues in Indonesia, AJAR continuing its role in analysis […]
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AJAR and its partners held a national gathering of all women victims involved in the research project. This event was held in September 2014 in Northern Burma/Myanmar and was attended by 41 participants – 26 women victims from three areas, 6 Burma/Myanmar local researchers, 3 AJAR staff, and 6 external facilitators. AJAR and its partners […]
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AJAR supported 10 women NGO workers from Burma/Myanmar, involved in our participatory research to learn new strategies to strengthen peace and justice. As part of a capacity-building strategy, AJAR invited staff from Women’s Organization Network (WON), Karen Women Empowerment Group (KWEG) and Kachin Women Association Thailand (KWAT) to do an exchange trip to Timor-Leste to […]
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This is part of AJAR research project on gender justice in three countries, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Myanmar. After conducting documentation in Indonesia and Timor-Leste during 2013 about women victims’ violation and strategy for survival, the field researchers and facilitators gathered in January 2014 in a workshop analysis to discuss the findings, evaluate the process in […]
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In May 2014, AJAR conducted a workshop and panel discussion in Yangon on ‘Working with Torture Survivors: Sharing Experiences from Indonesia and Timor-Leste’. The event aimed at training local civil society groups on transitional justice, prevention of torture and strategies to empower survivors. AJAR staff talked about challenges for transitional justice in Asia, introducing the […]
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AJAR is conducting a two-year action research project, with support from IDRC, to understand how women victims in conflict/ post-conflict settings experience impunity, develop strategies for survival, and find ways to empower themselves AJAR aims to uphold the rights of women victims by empowering survivors to articulate their issues through participatory action research, and develop […]
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AJAR is providing technical assistance to the Pyoe Pin project in Myanmar, writing a script for a high quality popular TV drama, with underlying rule of law and human rights themes. The goal of the series is to reach a broad range of the population who are unlikely to access written materials or other sources […]
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“I was 30 years old when this happened. I prayed to God to give me strength so that one day I can testify for the truth to be known…” These were the words of “MM” from Kupang, in West Timor. Identified under her pseudonym, MM spoke of the horrific events of 1965 – of her imprisonment, of […]
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AJAR, KontraS (Indonesia) and National Peace Council (Sri Lanka) held a workshop to learn about strategies to strengthen survivors of torture and ill-treatment, as part of a longer-term effort to prevent recurrence and pursue accountability. Thirty practitioners from civil society groups and torture survivors gathered together from Indonesia, Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar/Burma to […]