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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
 

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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.


UN Women: UN co-ordinator wins award for help to women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-05-23 09:28

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UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam John Hendra has received the “For the Development of Vietnamese Women” insignia for his great contributions to fostering gender equality and the advancement of Vietnamese women.

President of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa presented the noble reward to the UN Coordinator in Hanoi on May 11. She expressed a wish that on his new position as Deputy to the Executive Director of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), he will continue to focus attention on gender equality and support for Vietnam in fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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Viet Nam: Proportion of women engaging in the politics is increasing

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-05-11 20:27

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The proportion of women engaging in the politics is increasing, showing the effectiveness of the State and Party’s policies that designed to enhance women’s role in society. According to the Female Parliament Members Group under the Vietnam National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs, between 1999 and now, Vietnam always has a female vice president and women accounted for 25.76 percent in the National Assembly during the 2007-2011 tenure, the highest rate among eight ASEAN countries that have a parliament.

 

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For more information, please visit: MCOT.NET


Viet Nam: Workshop Eyes Ways to Advance Women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Sun, 2011-05-01 20:15

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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan yesterday asked local authorities to better women's participation in politics while reviewing a 10-year programme on gender equality and women's advancement. At a conference on the topic held in the Mekong delta's Can Tho yesterday, Nhan called on the National Committee for the Advancement of Women and the Department for Gender Equality to start implementing projects to improve women's political skills to reach the 2020 targets on the proportion of women in politics.

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For more information, please visit: VietNamNews


Viet Nam: Raising the number of female National Assembly Deputies

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-04-13 19:07

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Many arguments by female National Assembly (NA) deputies have helped to resolve burning issues in recent times. The Party and State are aware of the need to increase the number of female NA deputies. They aim to raise the proportion of women NA deputies in the upcoming election to 30 percent. However, to achieve this target requires efforts from women and support from Party committees at grass root levels and local administrations as well as accurate view of women’s roles in socio-political activities.

 

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For more information, please visit: VietnameseDongNews


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.

UNDP: Call for Proposal - International Gender Consultant Parliamentary Development UNDP Viet Nam

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-03-24 19:03

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UNDP Viet Nam country office is looking for an International Gender Expert with the deadline submission for application on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 at 5 PM. In close collaboration with relevant National Assembly (NA) and Provincial People's Councils' (PPCs) Deputies and project staff, the expert is required to:

  • Provide technical specialized advice to establish sustainable institutional mechanisms for the mainstreaming of gender in the work of the NA committees and other relevant agencies, selected PPCs and the Vietnamese Female MPs Group.
  • Provide technical specialized advice to develop awareness raising and training strategy and materials on gender issues for MPs and staff.
  • Provide technical specialized advice to promote knowledge, research, data and information management for gender mainstreaming.
  • Provide relevant inputs on development of baselines and indicators for project M&E as well as on project annual strategic planning and reporting.
  • Conduct other related duties as required to achieve targets.

In addition, the Expert will consult/cooperate/coordinate with project team members to ensure the timely completion of the activities and reports. The Expert will also guide and supervise the national consultans supporting relevant activities.

The selection will be based on a competitive basis and will comply with UNDP procurement regulations. The following documents are attached.

  • Procurement Notice with enclosed Terms of Reference (TOR)
  • Detailed project-outline
  • LIst of Deliverables
  • MIssion Report

Interested candidates are invited to submit Technical and Financial proposals to:

Procurement Unit
UNDP Viet Nam
72 Ly Thuong Kiet, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Attention: Procurement Unit
Tel. (84-4) 3 9421495
Telefax number: (84-4) 3 9422267
Email: bidding.vn@undp.org

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Viet Nam: Ensuring equal rights for women

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-03-17 02:04

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The Government of Vietnam is resolved to complete laws and policies on gender equality and implement programmes and projects on promoting gender equality and women's progress, said a senior official.  Addressing a forum on gender equality held in Hanoi on March 9, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Nguyen Thanh Hoa, emphasised that the national strategy on gender equality in the 2011-2020 period aims to intensify measures to ensure gender equality and get women involved in narrowing the gender gap in politics, education and training, and science and technology sectors and other fields.

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For more information, please visit: VOVNews


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.