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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; color: rgb(33, 95, 154); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>ASEAN REGIONAL PLAN OF ACTION ON WOMEN. PEACE & SECURITY</b></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(33, 95, 154);"><b>ASEAN,</b>
</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers
of ASEAN: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN on 7 January 1984, followed by Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten
Member States of ASEAN.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Women’s voices and leadership are key to sustaining peace, stability and development in the region. ASEAN is committed to advancing women, peace and security (WPS) as a regional priority agenda. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The WPS agenda in ASEAN is guided by the commitments to implement the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and other related resolutions on women, peace and security. Other key reference instruments are the
Beijing Platform for Action, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and ASEAN policy statements and plans of action on the promotion of the women, peace and security agenda as well as the protection of women’s rights.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Since the adoption of the Joint Statement on Promoting Women, Peace, and Security in ASEAN by ASEAN Leaders at the 31st ASEAN Summit in 2017, ASEAN has set important milestones in implementing the WPS agenda through concerted
multi-sectoral efforts and partnerships:</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">The ASEAN Women for Peace Registry was established in 2018 as a creative initiative to mobilise resource and consolidate knowledge for capacity building and advocacy on a gendered approach to peace and conflict in the
region. </span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Aligning efforts of the ASEAN Committee on Women, the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children and the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation have been pivotal to ASEAN’s
collective action in mainstreaming women’s rights and gender equality in peace and security.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Furthermore, ASEAN women military and law enforcement officers have also made a positive impact globally through their active participation in UN peacekeeping operations.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">To further enhance women’s engagement for sustainable peace, ASEAN has embraced an all-encompassing approach to women, peace and security from the angle
of preventing and countering violent extremism, disaster management and climate change to women in peace processes and post-conflict rehabilitation. Recognizing the mutual reinforcement and interconnectivity of economics and peace , regional efforts are forged
to articulate women, peace and security in the context of economic integration. Women’s economic empowerment is also enforced as a form of conflict prevention, resolution and recovery. </span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u><a href="https://data.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/documents/Publications/ASEAN/ASEAN%20-leadership-factsheet.pdf" id="OWAa146baa6-c1e2-7ab2-cfcd-3d6aed9d0814" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin: 0px;">https://data.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/documents/Publications/ASEAN/ASEAN%20-leadership-factsheet.pdf</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> –
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