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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Naomi Navoce<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Soloveni Vitoso<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Press Release: - Consultation with Local and National Women-Focused Organizations on Accelerating the Transformation to Risk-Informed Development Under the Sendai Framework 2015-2030
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Press Release:
</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Approximately 40 participants, including:
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• 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; </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• 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. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Representatives of other APP- DRR Stakeholder Groups, with a focus on stakeholder groups also advocating for inclusion ended their 2 days meeting today in
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Bangkok this week for a
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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. </span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.”
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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:
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Investing in Prevention
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Making Systems and Infrastructure Resilient
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• Sharing Innovations, Knowledge and Solutions
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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:
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• 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; </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">• 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; </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:150%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jointly identify methods of engagement in sub-regional and national level advocacy and accountability frameworks for gender-responsive implementation of
the Sendai Framework. </span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> PDFlist [mailto:pdflist-bounces@lists.pacificdisability.org]
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<b>Subject:</b> [PDFlist] Press Release: Human Rights Activists Gather in Bangkok Ahead of Global UN Meeting on Women’s Human Rights</span></p>
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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
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">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. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">The Forum also serves to consolidate the civil society inputs to the </span><a href="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" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" tabindex="-1" disabled="true"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">regional
and global review processes for women’s human rights</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black"> 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.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">“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. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">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. </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">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.”</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">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.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">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” </span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">“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.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">The civil society forum will continue for three days in Bangkok after which the </span><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2ffwrm.us11.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d59e5fd28a03ca32116437eb66%26id%3db5a002e1dd%26e%3dd5b7bfe647&c=E,1,tkUSW9bJiSmfs0h-ELezwvz4mzrL_qJv8Gyoy54NmiSW-e0BJ2-KtsjJuZv0cn5m49eWgJwRL-dzh5v-4-XoHBMZPaXOCC3x-ZT6swZDKkKPBwzMPcxY-ij_8L9d&typo=1" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" tabindex="-1" disabled="true"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">governments
will meet</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black"> to review the Beijing Platform for Action’s regional process at United Nations ESCAP. The regional review is part of the global review of women’s human rights.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:#757575"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">About Beijing+25 Review ProcessThe Beijing+25 review process began in 2019 in all regions of the world and will culminate in a </span><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2ffwrm.us11.list-manage.com%2ftrack%2fclick%3fu%3d59e5fd28a03ca32116437eb66%26id%3d89514a5674%26e%3dd5b7bfe647&c=E,1,6bZ-amTQh4LQT_4VLVc0BU0JuGldsC6-ptfujLDUw4uDynR_0IvmlIx-VmNykNWOO6i7JWW9hzmJkJMExMrZ2Y5AmNYWZK-RO1D2oadgH5Xnhl9mdXtJCcTg6g,,&typo=1" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" tabindex="-1" disabled="true"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black">global
review at the 64th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif; color:black"> (CSW) in March 2020 at UN Headquarters in New York. The global review will highlight the achievements and barriers
to the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). It also marks the commemoration of 40 years of the Convention on All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which is the international bill for women’s human rights. The
structure of the Asia Pacific Beijing+25 CSO forum follows an ‘Anger, Hope, Action’ framework and emphasises the feminists' demand for systemic change to achieve women’s human rights.
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