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Open Letter from Civil Society Organizations calling on the Council’s immediate action to ensure the protection of demonstrators
We are writing to express our deep concern over the safety of the peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar and urge you to take immediate action to ensure their protection and their fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly, expression and information.
About IID
Who we are
The Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) is a regional advocacy institution doing policy, campaigns and solidarity work to advocate for people-to-people solidarity through its peacebuilding and thematic work in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.
Statements and Press Releases
Rights groups slam extension of Suu Kyi’s detention, tell UN: WE TOLD YOU SO!
Rights groups based in the Philippines demanding for the return of democracy and justice in military ruled-Myanmar today assailed the recent move of the military junta in Burma to extend the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) for another year. The groups also slammed the United Nations for indicating that a recent trip there by one of its high officials had paved the way for the potential release of Syu Kyi and the opening up of the regime to talk about reforms.
Statement of the Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition on the current situation in Timor Leste
Together with most of its ardent supporters worldwide, the events in Timor Leste these last two days has raised deep concern and anxiety on the state of this fledgling nation that we have accompanied in its struggle for liberation.
Mindanao Peaceweavers’ Letter to the OIC on its visit in Mindanao
Knowing the tremendous effort that the OIC had exerted to broker the Peace Agreement with the MNLF in 1996, your visit in Mindanao today could be a moment to celebrate and a time to count the dividends of peace that you have helped broker 10 years ago. But sadly, we have not yet arrived at the situation which the government, MNLF and the OIC collectively envisioned in 1996. After your field visit, you will surely find a lot of problems and challenges that the Bangsamoro communities still face today despite the 1996 Peace Agreement.
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What we do
Programs
peace process
Highlights various civil society engagement and advocacy initiatives on both formal and community-based peace processes happening in the Philippines as well those in the region through peacebuilding and conflict-transformation and people -to- people dialogue frameworks.
Right to self-determination and solidarity
Assertions of the fundamental right to self-determination have become more intense and popular as peoples in the region become more assertive and involved in various fora that openly talk about self-governance, autonomy, human rights, human security, and self-determination struggles.
Knowledge Management
Focuses on communicating the issues and challenges of peacebuilding and conflict prevention, right to self determination, peace process engagement and human security work of IID.