[PDFlist] Press Release: - Consultation with Local and National Women-Focused Organizations on Accelerating the Transformation to Risk-Informed Development Under the Sendai Framework 2015-2030

Wed Nov 27 18:45:26 MST 2019

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Press Release: Consultation with Local and National Women-Focused Organizations on Accelerating the Transformation to Risk-Informed Development Under the Sendai Framework 2015-2030,  25-26 November 2019 Novotel Bangkok Sukhumvit 20, Bangkok, Thailand.

Approximately 40 participants, including:

• Representatives of women-focused and women’s rights organizations working at local, national, and regional levels in Asia and the Pacific, with a focus on organizations also working on intersectional issues;

• Active current members of the Gender Stakeholder Group, including representatives from national governments, Christian Aid, JICA, JWNDRR, IPPF, ADPC, AIDMI, IFRC, UNFPA, and UN Women; together with the GSHG lead, Duryog Nivaran.

• Representatives of other APP- DRR Stakeholder Groups, with a focus on stakeholder groups also advocating for inclusion ended their 2 days meeting today in Bangkok this week for a Consultation with Local and National Women-Focused Organizations on Accelerating the Transformation to Risk-Informed Development Under the Sendai Framework 2015-2030 from 25-26 November 2019 at Novotel Bangkok Sukhumvit 20, Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2015, countries adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, a voluntary agreement aiming to achieve the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods, and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural, and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities, and countries. The Framework acknowledges the disproportionate vulnerability of women to disasters, and notes that governments should engage all relevant stakeholders, including women, in the design and implementation of DRR policies, plans, and standards. Sendai Priority 4 furthermore calls for “empowering women and persons with disabilities to lead and promote gender equitable and universally accessible response, recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.”

The Asia-Pacific is the region most vulnerable to disaster impacts in the world, and home to multiple complex emergencies and protracted humanitarian crises. While women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to disaster impacts due to structural barriers and pre-existing gender inequalities, they are also significant contributors to disaster preparedness, prevention, and risk reduction. In 2016, the Government of Viet Nam and UN Women, in collaboration with other partners and with the support of the Government of Japan, organized the Regional Asia-Pacific Conference on Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction to identify actions to ensure inclusive and gender-responsive implementation of the Sendai Framework in the region.

In 2020, AMCDRR will incorporate Pacific governments and stakeholders to become the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR). With Australia as the host government, APMCDRR 2020 is expected to have the overall theme of Accelerating the Transformation to Risk Informed Development. With inclusion and local action as a cross-cutting theme, the key pillars are expected to include:

• Investing in Prevention

• Making Systems and Infrastructure Resilient

• Sharing Innovations, Knowledge and Solutions

The regional consultation will build upon ongoing advocacy and capacity strengthening efforts by GSHG members for the gender-responsive achievement of the Sendai Framework. The consultation, held six months before APMCDRR2020 and five years into the Sendai Framework ended today which aim to:

• Provide a platform for women-focused and women’s rights organizations to discuss enablers and barriers for gender-responsive achievement of the Sendai Framework at local and national level;

• Enable exchange of good practices and lessons learnt from practice at regional, national, and local levels, with a focus on investments in prevention, gender-responsive resilient infrastructure, and women-led innovations and solutions;

·      Jointly identify methods of engagement in sub-regional and national level advocacy and accountability frameworks for gender-responsive implementation of the Sendai Framework.

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Subject: [PDFlist] Press Release: Human Rights Activists Gather in Bangkok Ahead of Global UN Meeting on Women’s Human Rights

Press Release: Human Rights Activists Gather in Bangkok Ahead of Global UN Meeting on Women’s Human Rights

24/11/2019

Over 230 civil society organisations, including human rights defenders and grassroots activists from Asia and the Pacific, representing large groups of women in their own countries are in Bangkok this week for a regional civil society forum on women’s human rights.

The Beijing+25 Regional CSO Forum is a space to celebrate achievements and identify regressions on women’s empowerment, as well as to facilitate intersectional and intergenerational dialogue and solidarity between the diverse constituencies represented. “This is an inclusive, feminist space where diverse voices of women from across Asia and the Pacific are heard, acknowledged, and validated,” said representatives from the  Beijing+25 Civil Society Steering Committee for Asia and the Pacific.

The Forum also serves to consolidate the civil society inputs to the regional and global review processes for women’s human rights<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2ffwrm.us11.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d59e5fd28a03ca32116437eb66%26id%3df249cf6c32%26e%3dd5b7bfe647&c=E,1,0kFa2jzQJBloNpponqI9oeGRvvnvgJ6ynThflHDTmUlDepTJDABPrUYm5s8o2R6SA_9gDvzYheLF04HjhuSBc7T2PohrdlCgXSsW1-vriz_syJQ,&typo=1> which will be followed up at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 64 at United Nations headquarters in New York in March 2020.

“We have seen some significant achievements particularly around normative standards on women’s human rights such as laws on violence against women or the recent ILO Convention to end Gender-Based Violence in the world of work.  These wins would have not been possible without an organised feminist, women’s movement,” said Nalini Singh from Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, Fiji.

However, lack of implementation and accountability were underlined as systemic barriers to the Beijing commitments, and patriarchal authoritarian governments’s increasing attacks on environmental, women human rights defenders.  “Neoliberal rules, mostly in the legally binding forms such as WTO rules (which preceded the Beijing commitments) or IMF’s structural adjustment programmes/loans (which preceded CEDAW), have been consolidated, and more recently brazen collusion between political and economic powers have been increasing.  It is fundamental that these structural barriers are named and concrete ways to remove such must be on the governments’ review agenda” said Misun Woo from Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD), Thailand.

Dolores Tajaran Balladares, originally from the Philippines and currently working in Hong Kong said, “As a migrant woman, I work without rights and dignity, for more than 12 hours every day. I have very low wages, and very little rest, sometimes none at all.  Migration is a symptom of ‘mal-development’ and results from neo-liberal policies, but we have no choice but to make a living to support ourselves and those that we love. Privatisation makes it even more difficult for us to access basic services where we live and work.”

Civil society delegates also shared the importance of regional partnerships and platforms such as this, for learning and exchange, in order to overcome the challenges faced at local and national levels. “This forum has given us the opportunity to share our experiences, express solidarity and strategise for our collective struggles. We know that when women stop, the world stops!” said Saku, Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD), Mongolia.

Youth feminist activist Gloria Konare from Solomon Islands ended the opening session by saying,” We are deepening our intersectional analysis, creating positive narratives, believing survivors, loving indiscriminately, learning from the lived realities of those around us, changing the ways we organise, listening to those that came before us, and paving the way to a feminist future”

“We are privileged to be here, and partner with civil society for our shared agenda for gender equality and the empowerment of women in the region,” added Mohammad Naciri, Regional Director, UN Women Office for Asia and Pacific. He was accompanied in the Opening Plenary by Srinivas Tata, Director, Social Development Division of the UN Regional Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) who emphasised the UN’s convening role in bringing civil society voices into intergovernmental forums.

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