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FOCUS September 2016 Volume 85

Human Rights Events in the Asia-Pacific

Migrant Forum in Asia, the Migration Working Group, Malaysia and ASEAN Services Employees Trade Union Council (ASETUC) organized the workshop entitled “Promoting people-centered and workers-centered ASEAN:  A Call for a region-wide advocacy to support workers’ rights in the region,” on 4 August 2016 during the ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) /ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (APF) 2016 held in Dili. This workshop discussed the status of the ASEAN Framework Instrument for the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers as well as the initiatives in the region that are being pushed by civil society and trade unions to ensure the promotion and protection of the rights of all workers including migrant workers in the ASEAN region as they relate to the ASEAN Economic Integration.

For further information contact: Migrant Forum in Asia, 5 Matiyaga Street, Central District, Diliman, Quezon City 1100, Philippines; ph/fax (632) 4333508, 2779484; mobile number 639215405063; e-mail: mfa@mfasia.org; www.mfasia.org; www.facebook.com/migrantforumasia.

IWRAW Asia Pacific hosted the inaugural Global South Women's Forum on Sustainable Development on 27 – 30 September 2016 in Phnom Penh. Women representing the different regions of the world discussed priority issues in relation to developing accountability and the form that the Global South Women's Forum on Sustainable Development would take in the next few years.

For further information, please contact:  International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific, 10-2, Jalan Bangsar Utama 9, 59000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; ph  (603) 2282 2255; fax (603) 2283 2552; e-mail: iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org / iwraw_ap@yahoo.com; www.iwraw-ap.org.

The Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS) and the Group of Civilian Volunteers (GVC) in collaboration with Working Women Association/Rusaifa, with support from the European Union organized a workshop on good governance, the role of media and civil society institutions in the rule of good governance, the definition of advocacy, mobilization, and lobbying and the elements of their success, and stages, methods, and management of mobilization and awareness-raising campaigns. The workshop was held on 30-31 July and 1 August 2016. Twenty participants from ten civil society associations at Zarqa Governorate joined the workshop.

Amman Center for Human Rights Studies, Al Abdali, Al Sharaf Building 4th Floor, P.O. Box 212524, Amman 11121, Jordan; ph (962 6) 46 55 043; fax (962 6) 46 55 043; e-mail: maysoon@achrs.org and ir@achrs.org; www.achrs.org.