As the training of the 2009/10 institute entered its second week, the 35 women leaders from 14 countries attending the institute were taken through the Human Rights Mechanisms module to enable them understand the appropriate fundamental instruments to apply in the process of documenting women’s human rights issues.
Participants to the 2009/10 Institute training institute who started the training at the Himalayan Horizon Hotel, in Dhurikel, a few kilometres from Kathmandu have continued to share their experiences and concerns about conflict and its consequences on women in conflict and post conflict countries. Some of the participants from 14 countries that include Democratic republic of Congo, Senegal, Cote d’voire, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda and Burundi presented brief narratives about the genesis of conflict in their countries and how it affected women. Nepal, the host country is represented by 18 participants who will during the Institute be trained on research and documentation to enable them document experiences of human rights defenders in the country.[+]
The Peace, Recovery and Development Plan for North and North Eastern Uganda (PRDP), whose full-scale implementation started in July 2009, establishes the guiding principles, the institutional framework and the strategic objectives for any future peace building, recovery and development interventions in the Greater Northern region of Uganda. [+]
“The impact of war on women is universal but their approaches to solutions are diverse” (Isis-WICCE, November, 2009)
The unique space Isis-WICCE Institute provides to women human rights activists from armed and post conflict countries has for two decades confirmed the fact that women of the world despite all the conventions and protocols by the international community and national mechanisms, women are still facing brutality, abuse, marginalisation and discrimination. [+]
Isis Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE) in partnership with Club de Madrid (CdM), Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) and Institute for Security Studies (ISS) held a high-level mission to Kampala, Uganda on Women’s Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of Africa from 3rd to 5th November 2009. [+]Women's Statement
Participants to the 2009/10 Institute training institute who started the training at the Himalayan Horizon Hotel, in Dhurikel, a few kilometres from Kathmandu have continued to share their experiences and concerns about conflict and its consequences on women in conflict and post conflict countries. Some of the participants from 14 countries that include Democratic republic of Congo, Senegal, Cote d’voire, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda and Burundi presented brief narratives about the genesis of conflict in their countries and how it affected women. Nepal, the host country is represented by 18 participants who will during the Institute be trained on research and documentation to enable them document experiences of human rights defenders in the country.
The Peace, Recovery and Development Plan for North and North Eastern Uganda (PRDP), whose full-scale implementation started in July 2009, establishes the guiding principles, the institutional framework and the strategic objectives for any future peace building, recovery and development interventions in the Greater Northern region of Uganda. 
Isis Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE) in partnership with Club de Madrid (CdM), Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) and Institute for Security Studies (ISS) held a high-level mission to Kampala, Uganda on Women’s Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of Africa from 3rd to 5th November 2009.