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N-PEACE Regional Training of Trainers

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2012-01-27 00:38
2012-02-03
2012-02-10
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City & Province/State: 
Bangkok
Country: 
Thailand
Venue: 

Amari Watergate Hotel

Description: 

From the 3-10 February 2012, twenty-two women peace advocates from the N-Peace Network countries – Nepal, Timor-Leste, Sri Lanka and Indonesia – will participant in the first N-Peace Network Training of Trainers (ToT) Programme coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Asia Pacific Regional Centre (APRC), in partnership with the Institute for Inclusive Security and supported by the Australian Government’s Agency for International Development (AusAID).

The ToT is being carried out with the aim of increasing women’s knowledge, skills, and capacities to advocate for peace and security. To view the profiles of the first N-peace Network Trainers who will take part in the ToT click here.

The eight day workshop will provide a space to discuss and unpack gender and peace building issues and the Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agenda, while also building upon participants’ practical skills in the areas of training, advocacy and communications.

To view the workshop agenda click here.


Asia Pacific Feminist Forum

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2011-10-28 07:55
2011-12-12
2011-12-14
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City & Province/State: 
Chiang Mai
Country: 
Thailand
Venue: 

Furama Hotel

54 Huay Keaw Road, Muang Chiang Mai 50300
Tel: (66) 5341 5222 Fax: (66) 5341 5200
 

Description: 

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) will hold the first ever Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) on 12-14 December 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This event will bring together 100-150 activists- women lawyers, academics, advocates and youth leaders. It will be an occasion to celebrate our collective achievements, reflect on our challenges and political climates, deepen feminist knowledge and analysis, strengthen our sisterhood, solidarity and collaboration, and reaffirm our resolve to advance women’s rights.

 

Workshops:

Workshops will be divided into four categories:

1. Knowledge building: to share new scholarship, analysis, and understandings in key areas of challenges confronting the women’s movement in the region

2. Skills building: to share successful strategies and skills in advocacy for reform

3. Movement building: to share successful efforts at building our movement across nations or regions. Discussions on what has worked for the movement.

4. Our well-being: Massage, dance, songwriting workshops, and other creative workshops for our well-being

Find more information at this link.


Call for Applications: Asia Pacific Feminist Forum

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2011-10-28 07:35
2011-10-28
2011-11-04
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City & Province/State: 
Chiang Mai
Country: 
Thailand
Description: 

The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) will hold the first ever Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF) on 12-14 December 2011 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The APFF will bring together women activists, lawyers, academics, advocates and youth leaders to celebrate our collective achievements, reflect on our challenges and shifting political environments, deepen feminist knowledge and analysis, strengthen our sisterhood, solidarity and collaboration and reaffirm our resolve to advance women’s rights.

For more information visit the APWLD website. 

Workshops will focus on:

1.  Knowledge building: to share new scholarship, analysis, and understandings in key areas of challenges confronting the women’s movement in the region.

2. Skills building: to develop strategies and practical skills that can aid women’s rights advocacy.

3. Movement building: to strengthen collaboration across nations or regions and build new movements that reflect current challenges.

4. Our Well-being: Massage, dance, song writing workshops, and other creative workshops for our well being.


Promoting Women’s Political Representation in Southeast Asia - IKAT

Building Sustainable Partnerships to Promote Women's Political Representation in Southeast Asia

Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Gendered Impacts in Asia

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Amidst growing uncertainties in a globalised world, fundamentalist convictions have been gaining ground in many religions.

Reinforced by the threat from international terrorism, this renaissance of religious fundamentalisms has created ideological conditions for polarisation between ‘us’ and ‘them’, from community to transnational level. At national level, it has affected both politics and society, leading tosomething of a ‘retraditionalisation’ of gender roles. The understanding of fundamentalism is often one-dimensional, however, and dominatedby the fi gure of the male Muslim. In fact, fundamentalism is multifaceted and rooted in different religious and cultural contexts. However, among the vast diversity of religions, cultures and peoples in Asia, a number of common features can be discerned with regard to religious fundamentalisms and gender.

[The above is an excerpt from the preface of: Claudia Derichs & Andrea Fleschenberg, eds.,Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Gendered Impacts in Asia, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Berlin 2010.]

Gender Equality Laws: Global Good Practice and A Review of Five Southeast Asian Countries

The publication of Gender Equality Laws: Global Good Practice and A Review of Five Southeast Asian Countries, in part a response to the call from States parties for a resource establishing good practice guiding principles, is therefore a timely and important resource to assist actors, public and private, government and non government, in both the development of new gender equality laws as well as the implementation of existing gender equality laws. This publication examines and analyses gender equality laws from around the world, identifying those provisions that represent good practice from a CEDAW informed perpective - practices that are recognised for having worked in their respective contexts but are not intended however to be held as prescriptive measures for other countries. Rather, they serve as guiding principles for similar initiatives. This publication also provides a detailed analysis of five draft and enacted GEL in Southeast Asia, a region where governments and civil society are working together to ensure that a State party's ratification of CEDAW leads to actual reform of law and policy in all the areas of women's lives where discrimination is experienced.

Philippines: Greening program to promote the role of women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-03-16 01:26

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In line with the National Women’s Month celebration in March, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has underscored the National Greening Program (NGP) as an instrument in the promotion of the role of women.

“The objective of the EO is to pursue sustainable development for poverty reduction, food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Without discriminating the men, various studies indicate that women are mostly affected by disasters, food scarcity, and environmental degradation,” added Paje.

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For more information, please visit the Philippine Information Agency.


Benchmarking National Legislation for Gender Equality: Findings from Five Asian Countries

The publication reviews the legal systems of Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Viet nam and assesses the extent of their legislative compliance with articles of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination agaisnt Women (CEDAW). The convention is an important international reference point for gender equality. The State Parties to CEDAW are legally bound to apply and enforce its articles in their legal systems. In this legislative assessment study only de jure compliance to CEDAW is assessed for the countries. But even for this, the findings reveal a varying level of legislative compliance. Overall, no country has achieved full compliance with CEDAW's articles. The extent of compliance ranges between 45 to 73 per cent, within de jure laws, with Viet Nam coming closest to the CEDAW benchmarks.

Philippines: Appoint woman commissioner in Comelec, says Cayetano

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2011-02-08 00:51

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Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano called on President Aquino over the weekend to appoint a female commissioner at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in compliance with the Magna Carta for Women which bats for greater participation of women in government affairs.

“I’m urging the President to appoint a female commissioner now that there are two vacancies. We do not have a female commissioner right now. And if we will follow the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and the Magna Carta for women, greater participation of women is being encouraged and protected,” Cayetano said.

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For more information, please visit PhilStar.com.


Philippines: Women's group to hold election-themed fashion show

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-04-29 06:35

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A women’s rights group is set to take its election awareness campaign to a new level: by holding a fashion show. Through “Project RunAway: The Election Season Collection," Gabriela party-list group also seeks to remind the candidates and the public of the pressing issues that should be addressed in the campaign that it said has become “increasingly insults-based."

“The mudslinging of the candidates in the 2010 elections has taken a turn for the worse," said Lana Linaban, the group’s secretary general, in a statement.

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To read the complete news story please visit GMA News TV.