UNIFEM links:
Economic Governance site UNIFEM New York
Trafficking kit
Available for downloading is the joint UNIFEM/UNIAP kit, Trafficking in Persons: A Gender Rights Perspective. Check back soon for more downloads on our Gender resources page.
Women Building their Future
Gender Breakthroughs in Post-Tsunami Aceh
The collective world memory of a tragedy the scale of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami is one of the brutality of nature, the struggle to recover and human strength over adversity. Women Building Their Future reflects that memory and tells the story of life in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami in the devastated province of Aceh. But it also reminds us of what happened next. [more...2.7MB-pdf]
Change Now - Say NO to Violence Against Women
BANGKOK, 2009 ‐ UNIFEM, the Ministry of Justice and Thai Airways International Public Company Limited, jointly launched a fundraising initiative called Change NOW! Say NO to Violence Against Women at a press conference on 15 December 2009. UNIFEM aired a video Public Service Announcement (PSA) featuring Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador for Thailand. In January 2010, THAI will air the PSA onboard all domestic and international flights – a total of 250 flights a day ‐ and will help collect passenger donations of unused currency in an onboard coin‐drive. The funds collected will support UNIFEM’s programming around gender‐based violence. [more...1MB-pdf]
Royal Princess of Thailand receives award for her outstanding engagement on ending violence against women and girls from UNIFEM
New York, 24 November: On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today honoured HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand for her exceptional contribution to ending violence against women. In an awards ceremony held at UN headquarters in New York and attended by high-level Thai officials and UNIFEM staff, Deputy Executive Director Joanne Sandler, congratulated the princess on her exemplary engagement on the issue and for being the public face of UNIFEM’s advocacy initiative Say NO to Violence against Women in Thailand. [more]
UNIFEM Launches Publication on Best Practices in Domestic Violence Legislation
BANGKOK, 2009 - UNIFEM launched its publication DV Legislation and its Implementation: An Analysis for ASEAN Countries based on International Standards and Good Practices at a side event of the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and its Regional and Global Outcomes, at the UN Convention Centre in Bangkok on 17 November 2009. The launch was followed by a panel discussion focusing on the implementation and monitoring of anti-domestic violence legislation, using good practices from the ESCAP region. [more]
Crafting a blueprint for change in Timor Leste
The Timorese government has been issued with the challenge to guarantee genuine equality between women and men. This sums the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the CEDAW Convention, the international bill of rights for women.
Ms. Pramila Patten, a member of the Committee that reviewed Timor-Leste’s first report on the rights of women in the country was in Dili in early November 2009 to present the Committee’s Concluding Observations. From all over Dili and the districts, NGO representatives, government officials and civil society members gathered to hear how Timorese women were faring in the quest to achieve their rights and equality both in the country’s laws and in day to day life. [more]
UNAIDS, ASEAN join hands to support work on gender and HIV
Studies in Asia indicate that most women in the region acquire HIV because of their partners who engage in unsafe behaviours. It is estimated that more than 90% of women living with HIV acquired the virus from their husbands or boyfriends while in long-term relationships. An effective AIDS response must address intimate partner relationships to prevent HIV infections in the female partners of men with high-risk behaviours. [more]
Magna Carta of Women – a victory for women’s human rights advocates
An Act Providing for the Magna Carta of Women of the Philippines’ was formally signed into law as Republic Act No. 9710 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on August 14, 2009 at the Malacañan Palace, Manila. The Magna Carta of Women (MCW) is a landmark legislation that serves as the Philippines’ gender equality law. The MCW is significantly linked to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in explicitly defining gender discrimination, state obligation, substantive equality, and temporary special measures and outlining provisions to implement these principles. [more]
UNIFEM Viet Nam: spotlight on gender-based violence initiatives in Lao Cai
Lao Cai is a rural region bordering China that has a high prevalence of social problems including human trafficking, gender-based violence, drug use, HIV transmission and poverty. These problems stem from the loss of livelihood with the depletion of natural resources, family dispersal through labour migration and an increase in corruption and drug trade since the opening of the border in 1991. Women and female children are routinely trafficked into sex work, to be wives or beget children for adoption and otherwise exploited for labour and sex. [more]
Charting Women's History in Timor-Leste
Ahead of the presentation of Timor-Leste’s first State Report to the Committee for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a preparatory Mock Session was organised by the CEDAW Southeast Asia Programme (CEDAW SEAP) of UNIFEM, the United Nations Development Fund for Women on 23 - 24 June 2009 in Dili. [more]
UNIFEM is part of the UN Joint Programme for Gender Equality in Vietnam.
UNIFEM is among 12 UN agencies committed to an innovative Joint Programme to promote gender equality in Viet Nam. The Joint Programme on gender equality between the Government of Viet Nam and the United Nations was signed at an official ceremony on 19th March 2009. [more]
We don’t have to be tough all the time
UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia organizes progressive trainings for male student leaders on gender and sexuality to address demand for trafficked persons in Thailand.
Bangkok 10 May 2009 Twenty-six eager young men arrived at a quiet resort in Nonthaburi early Saturday morning May 9 for what was going to become a memorable weekend. The university students were hand-picked to attend a two-day training workshop on gender sensitivity for young men organized by UNIFEM and facilitated by CATW-AP (the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific). The workshop training was the first of its kind in Thailand, shifting the focus from the supply side of the trafficking process to the issue of demand and its implications on trafficking and exploitation, educating young male leaders to spread awareness and create change. [more]
Recruitment
CEDAW in Action in Southeast Asia website now launched!
Visit: http://cedaw-seasia.org
Evaluation Report of the UNIFEM Programme Facilitating CEDAW Implementation in Southeast Asia
(CEDAW SEAP)
Baseline Study on Feminization of Poverty in Timor-Leste
Cambodian Women Migrant Workers: Findings from a Migration Mapping Study
EVAW kit available for download on gender resources page.
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