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 Zoe Latumbo of the Karenni National Women’s Organisation (KNWO) in the Kingdom of Thailand was one of the participants of the 2007/2008 institute that was held in Liberia. She undertook to carry out a project of bringing out the voices of Karenni refugee women with the seed grant she received from Isis-WICCE, so that responsive interventions could be initiated in due course to address their plight especially in improving their living standards given the complex situation of their refugee status in the host country. [+]  Poster
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 Isis-WICCE has just completed a short term medical intervention in the two counties of Maryland and Grand Kru in Liberia. Like in any post war situation, Liberia still has immense health problems that need holistic management to ensure impact on the health of the population, particularly that of women war survivors.
Dr Juliet Nakku, a Ugandan Consultant Psychiatrist was among the Isis-WICCE medical team that participated in the medical intervention. She, like most members of the intervention team, was overwhelmed by the prevailing conditions in the two counties as she puts it in her mirror-like submission… [+] |
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Since 2008, Isis-WICCE, with the mandate from the Uganda Women’s Coalition for Peace, decided to contribute to the engendering of the PRDP process by spearheading a women’s collective action to ensure the implementation has a positive impact on women’s empowerment and gender equality in the region. During this period, a number of activities have been undertaken. [+] |
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 The republic of Liberia was for 14 years the centre of the most brutal civil war from 1989-2003. The war was characterized by horrifying atrocities and human rights violations that were committed indiscriminately by various fighting forces on the population, but particularly on the women and girls. Grisly human rights violations and abuses targeted women’s sexuality through gang rape and with impurity, inserted objects in the survivor’s vaginas thus causing grievous injuries and damage to their reproductive health systems. [+]
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Isis-WICCE has continued the momentum of effectively profiling the issue of recovery among women survivors of the northern Uganda conflict in spite of the failure of the Government of Uganda and the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) to sign the peace agreement to end the 22 years-long conflict that had a devastating effect on the livelihoods of women in the affected regions. [+] |
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