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
Report on Asia Pacific CSO Forum on Sustainable Development 2017: Prosperity for Whom? Asserting Development Justice in a Changing Asia and Pacific
"From 26-28 March 2017, The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (AP-RCEM) organised and [...]
APFSD 2017: Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing Asia-Pacific
"Pursuant to ESCAP resolution 72/6 Committing to the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific, Governments and other stakeholders will convene [...]
ESCAP SDG Week: Understand key challenges for effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is promoting a week discussion to understand the key challenges for effective implementation of the Sustainable D [...]
Save the Date: CSW60 Side Event CIS countries Session “Means of Implementation for reaching gender equality in SDG”
Forum of women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan Invites to the parallel session. Tuesday, 15 March 2016, from 16:30 PM – 18:00 PM Room 2, Thai Cultural Center (TCC) located at the 310 of 44th Street. Suite #L [...]
The second Open-Ended Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-2)
Members of the Women’s Major Group presented their key issues on COP21 Paris Agreement at UNEP OECPR 2 meeting in Nairobi. Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition and WMG Organizing Partner) presente [...]
Voices of Women and How Climate Change is Affecting them: Cop 21, Paris 2015
The ones from small submerged islands continue to return [to them]. They want to sink with the islands they say, and die in dignity. Why relocate? We have not contributed to what is happening. Hel [...]
Women’s Stories From the Climate Frontlines
The Asian‐Pacific Resource and Research Centre (ARROW) will launch a series of postcards featuring women’s stories from climate change affected communities in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Maldives [...]
Population and Sustainable Development Alliance at COP21
Joint event with the Population & Sustainable Development Alliance (PSDA) on 1 Dec at the Climate Generations area and the WGC space - on 4 Dec from 1-3 pm. Women's Stories from the Climate Fron [...]
APWLD’s Asia Pacific CSO declaration on Sustainable Development
The new development framework must reaffirm and build upon the Rio principles and other international agreements in the area of development and human rights, including the International Conference [...]
High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2014: Noelene Nabulivou’s Intervention
This is the time for clear leadership and common vision on how to include those left behind, with gender equality and women’s human rights and an ecosphere approach, as core to sustainable develop [...]