The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) convened the Asia Pacific Regional workshop
“Women Leading, Women Organising” in Chiang Mai on 18 - 21 December 2014. This participatory workshop focused on enhancing the capacity, leadership and voice of women in trade unions across the Asia- Pacific region.
For further information, please contact: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), 189/3 Changklan Road, Amphoe Muang, Chiang Mai 50100 Thailand; ph (66) 53 284527, 284856; fax (66) 53 280847; e-mail: apwld@apwld.org; www.apwld.org.
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) organized a regional workshop, “Our Stories, One Journey: Empowering Rural Women on Rights to Land, Food, Resources and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” on 15 November 2014, during the Parallel Sessions of the Asia Pacific Civil Society Forum on Beijing +20 (14-16 November 2014, Bangkok). The workshop was also co-sponsored by Asian Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW), AMIHAN (Federation of Peasant Women Philippines), Society for Rural Education (SRED India), and Seruni Indonesia.
For further information, please contact: PAN Asia Pacific, P.O. Box 1170, 10850 Penang, Malaysia; ph (604) 6570271 or (604) 6560381; fax (604) 6583960; e-mail: panap@panap.net; www.panap.net ; www.facebook.com/panasiapacific; www.twitter.com/panasiapac
The East Asia Institute (EAI) and Asia Democracy Network (ADN) organized the International Conference on
“Empowering Community of Democracies” on 24-25 November 2014 in Seoul. The conference discussed proposed agenda for the upcoming 8th Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial Conference and Civil Society Conference in El Salvador in 2015, and ways to reinforce the participation of Asian civil society in the CD process as well as increase CD’s presence in the Asian region. In addition, the conference had a special session dedicated to “Seeking a New Model for Democracy Assistance Foundation” to further support the democratic process abroad.
For further information, please contact: Asia Democracy Network Secretariat, Korea Human Rights Foundation; mobile (82 10) 8551 3192; ph (82 2) 363 0002; e-mail: adn2013seoul@gmail.com; www.asia21.asia; www.humanrights.or.kr; www.humanrightskorea.org.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) at the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law and the Open Society Foundations (OSF) convened on 2 October 2014 the High-Level Roundtable with the aim of advancing transgender people’s rights in Asia and the Pacific. The Rountable brought together key opinion and decision makers and explored some of the critical problems faced by individuals, who often identify as transgender and desire to live and be accepted in a gender other than the one that society has assigned to them.
For further information, please contact: Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Room 901, 9/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; ph (852) 3917 4238; fax (852) 2549 8495; www.law.hku.hk/ccpl/index.html.