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(3-5 August 2010), held at the Isis International House in Manila. Attended by twenty-eight grassroots women leaders from the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and Nepal, the three-day training served as a venue for interactive and dynamic exchange on climate change issues, its impact on women, as well as current responses and climate change discussions where women's voices are often not considered or heard. It culminated with People's Communications for Engendering Climate Justice: A Dialogue and Festival of Responses, a public forum and festival held on 6 August 2010, where participants learned about alternative media and communication tools and celebrated the knowledge gained.

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Women are most often reduced to the role of victims in conflicts and wars. As well as the significant suffering they face during conflicts and wars, being specifically targeted because of their gender thus experiencing rape as a weapon of war in addition to displacement harassment and economic hardship, women are also agents in conflict resolution, peace-making and peacebuilding. Despite being denied access to formal decision making structures as a result of patriarchal governance structures, women participate in many different ways in peacebuilding. Their peacebuilding roles begin at home and within the community level because of the patriarchal norms and rules that constrain their actions. However, women also act outside the home as activists, representatives of groups or organizers of rallies and workshops.

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Migrant workers are a silent group within a nation's population and have largely been overlooked. Yet, they continue to organize to demand for their rights and just working conditions. Oftentimes, internal migrants, those moving from rural areas to urban ones, are overlooked in favor of migrant workers who leave their countries for a job. Both face much exploitation and oppression due to the temporary nature of their job and lives and having to adjust to new environments and situations.