7-8 November 2017Quezon City, Philippines
Activity
Regional Dialogue on Strengthening Women ™s Rights Work in ASEAN: Alternatives for Regional Integration, Governance and Justice was a two-day dialogue organized by the Women’s Legal Bureau (WLB) – a founding member of WEAVE.Weaving Women ™s Voices in ASEAN, or WEAVE , a regional group of women ™s organizations and advocates from six ASEAN countries.WEAVE is a regional network with members who are national networks from 6 countries – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand. The members are themselves national networks in their respective countries.
The dialogue facilitated cross-movements exchanges with representation of women activists from the different social, sectoral, and grassroots movements — working on trade and economic justice, information and communication technology (ICT), workers ™ movements, peasants, indigenous peoples, persons with disability, and lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, etc. The discussion looked into intersectionality of women ™s issues and marginalized sectors in relation to economic policies. See AgendaThe Regional Dialogue brought together women ™s human rights groups, academics and advocates in SEA to discuss the following issues:(1) Regional integration remains to be driven by pursuits for accelerated economic growth and not people-centred; (2) Need for women ™s space to discuss and proposed alternatives for economic justice governance; and(3) Develop economic justice as a regional agenda of women ™s advocates, feminists and academics.The findings of the research entitled, Women and the ASEAN 2025 Vision: Locating the Gender and Human Rights Dimension of the ASEAN Economic Community”, a SHAPE-SEA Regional Grant Recipient were presented.The Regional Dialogue was attended by 55 participants.The outputs of the activity will include a regional brief on the alternatives for Regional Economic Integration for strengthening women’s work rights in ASEAN.
