Asia & Pacific
The Asia Pacific region contains the majority of the world’s poor, most of whom are women. Economic, trade, and financial policies globally and in the region have further exposed Asia Pacific women to exploitative labor, labor migration, landlessness and trafficking. Some key issues in the region are poverty, decent work and living wage, land rights, climate change, migrant rights, peace and security, as well as voice and political participation.
Since 2014, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) was elected as the Women Constituency focal point and the Co-Chair of Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism (RCEM), a civil society platform of more than 450 organizations aimed to enable stronger cross constituency coordination and ensure that voices of all sub-regions of Asia Pacific are heard in intergovernmental processes in regional and global level.
The platform is initiated, owned and driven by the civil society organizations (CSO), and has been set up under the auspices of UN-ESCAP and seeks to engage with UN agencies and Member States on the Post-2015 as well as other development related issues/processes to advance its’ political unity of Development Justice.
This is the principal CSO platform that engages with the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) as the regional meeting for the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) organised by UN-ESCAP. Currently, there are more than 200 members listed in the Asia Pacific Women Major Group list-serve.
The WMG OP focal point for Asia and the Pacific is Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD). To join the regional listserv please contact leanne@apwld.org and rina@apwld.org
IISD 2019: Asia-Pacific Climate Week (APCW)
"APCW is part of Regional Climate Weeks that are held annually in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Asia-Pacific. Regional Climate Weeks are organized by the Nairobi Framework Partne [...]
HLPF 2019: Sarankhukhuu Sharavdorj’s Intervention on Mongolia VNR
"What are the VNR follow-up plans of the Government of Mongolia? When will the Government complete defining the targets and indicators to measure the implementation of SDGs? What is the plan of G [...]
HLPF 2019: Prameswari Puspa Dewi’s Intervention on Indonesia, Guatemala and Turkey VNR Report
"What is planned to eliminate this de facto context and ensure progress on all SDGs from a gender equality and human rights perspective? What concrete actions, with assigned resources, transparent [...]
HLPF 2019: Marcela Ballara’s Intervention on VNR for Azerbaijan, Chile, Philippines and Sierra Leone
Governments must guarantee the participation of civil society and other social actors in the elaboration of the national voluntary reviews and the 2030 monitoring process. There are some Sustainab [...]
HLPF 2019: Amasai Jeke’s Intervention on Perspectives of SIDS Including Main Findings from Mid-term Review of the SAMOA Pathway
"it is imperative that SIDS governments take a human rights-based approach with a clear justice-focused definition of prosperity that fully recognizes justice for ecological sustainability, climat [...]
APFSD 2019: Shaila Shahid’s Intervention at the Session on Progress in the implementation of SDG 17 on MOI
Without means that match the ends in ambition, the SDGs goals will be 'aspirational' not in the best sense -of something that will inspire all people to act to bring it about, but in the worst sen [...]
APFSD: Strengthening People’s Power for Development Justice in an Unequal and Divided World
Achieving development justice starts with having a common understanding of not only the symptoms of our failed development model, but also of root structural and systemic causes of development inj [...]
APFSD 2019: Sabrina Rose Rasu’s Intervention at the Opening Keynote Session
If you are creating a world for us that is both equal and inclusive then you cannot have it without us and without a living planet. Sabrina Rose Rasu (#Vanuatu Young Women for Change) delivered he [...]
Interregional Preparatory Meeting for the Mid Term Review of the SAMOA Pathway
The Interregional Preparatory Meeting will allow SIDS an opportunity to review the outcomes of the three regional preparatory meetings and agree on a set of common priorities to be further advanced [...]
Peoples’ Forum Statement for Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development 2018
"We are more than 200 CSOs representing various groups, constituencies and concerns bound together by the commitment to strengthen the inter-linkages among rights, development and sustainability and [...]