This publication contains the Seminar Outcome and discussion papers prepared by experts of the Regional Seminar on Strengthening the Capacity of National Machineries for Gender Equality to Shape Migration Policies and Protect Migrant Women, held from 22-24 November 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand. It addresses the diverse experiences of female migrants in the ESCAP region, including the situations of migrant domestic workers, female international marriage migrants, migrants working in the garment industry and in disguised sex work.
This is a report of a regional stakeholders' consultation and planning workshop involving participants from the Governments and civil society of Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, as well as Pacific regional organizations, academic institutions and United Nations organizations. They came together to review findings from situation analysis research on commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and child sexual abuse (CSA) and share experiences, develop or strengthen key elements of a national plan of action and involve other Pacific stakeholders in addressing this problem. A key objective was to raise the awareness of participants of the gender-based risk factors documented in the situation analyses and the need to incorporate a gender approach for effective responses to CSEC and CSA, as well as consider the economic and social root causes of such exploitation and abuse.
This publication contains the Seminar Outcome and discussion papers prepared by experts of the Regional Seminar on Strengthening the Capacity of National Machineries for Gender Equality to Shape Migration Policies and Protect Migrant Women, held from 22-24 November 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand.It addresses the diverse experiences of female migrants in the ESCAP region, including the situations of migrant domestic workers, female international marriage migrants, migrants working in the garment industry and in disguised sex work.
Toolkit for implementing and monitoring the East Asia and Pacific Regional Commitment and Action Plan against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)
ESCAP has compiled a toolkit on CSEC in the region. The toolkit is composed of three chapters:
1. Tools for Developing National Plans of Action against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children;
2. Situational Analysis Research on CSEC: Basic approaches and tools;
3. Piloting CSEC Info: Experiences from East Asia. By sharing experiences, good practices and practical tools in the areas or research, development of national plan of action and the piloting of CSEC Info, the toolkit can serve as a user-friendly and functional reference for key actors seeking to learn from past practice and adapt such lessons to fit local and national contexts.
Asia and
the Pacific Beijing+10: Selected Issues, 2005
This publication contains the papers prepared by the
experts for their presentations at the High-Level Intergovernmental
Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing
Platform for Action and its Regional and Global Outcomes
which was convened at Bangkok, Thailand, from 7-10 September
2004. It is hoped that this publication would add value
to any efforts and initiatives that are being taken by concerned
entities to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment,
and provide useful perspectives and suggestions for the
formulation of relevant policies and designing of measures
to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the
General Assembly.
Concept
Note on the Use of Gender Sensitive Qualitative Indicators
for Monitoring Implementation of the Beijing Platform for
Action, 2004
The
Beijijg Platform for Action emphasized the development of
gender sensitive indicators in order to systematize the
monitoring and evaluation of progress made in implementating
its recommendations. The paper focuses more specifically
on the development and the use of such indicators for three
important regional: women's economic migration, women's
participation in the informal sector, and the persistence
of violence against women. It highlights the necessity of
combining both quantitative and qualitative indicators for
monitoring the situation of women in the three studied areas.
While sex-disaggregrated statistics with baselines are able
to convey the extent of a problem rate of progress through
numbers, the use of qualitative indicators can indeed also
help to derive contextual information on women's experiences
of situations.
Combating
Human Trafficking in Asia: A Resource Guide to International
and Regional Legal Instruments, Political Commitments and
Recommended Practices, 2003
The
publication provides a comprehensive framework for using
legal and other instruments to combat trafficking in persons,
especially women and children. The Resource Guide calls
for a multifaceted response to trafficking utilizing the
complete range of legal and other instruments relevant to
all dimensions of trafficking involving human rights, slavery
and slavery-like practices, trafficking, migration, labour,
gender and children.
Gender
Indicators for monitoring the implementation of the Beijing
Platform for Action on women in the ESCAP region, 2003
This
publication represents one of UNESCAP's efforts at developing
a set of indicators with which to assess the degree of implementation
of the Beijing Platform for Action. The set of indicators
is also developed on the basis of the Millennirm Development
Goals (MDGs) as well as the Jakarta Declaration and Plan
of Action for the Advancement of Women in Asian and the
Pacific. The ever-growing need to develop systems of gender
statistics and indicators has underscored the importance
in selecting indicators that are appropriate for the intended
purpose as well as technically sound. In developing these
indicators, the criteria of selection depended on their
usefulness to the countries in Asia Pacific region and the
current availability of information and official statistics.
The publication is also mindful that the countries will
actually decide the priorities on the basis of their own
follow-up and assessment needs.
This
publication examines gender manistreaming as a strategy
and an effective and established tool used to ensure that
gender-awareness is incorporated at every step of the policy
process in order to achieve gender equality. The publication
is the result of a symposium on gender mainstreaming organized
by the Office of the Special Adviser on Women and Gender
Issues and the Division for the Advancement of Women with
the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
in December of 2001. The symposium and publication cover
key issues on gender mainstreaming insluding institutional
change, responsibilities and accountabilities, and strategies
from various sectors and countries.
This
e-publication offers an analysis of the issues facing women
in Asia and the Pacific region, particularly in the context
of globalization and social development. It also suggests
some policy options that could be pursued in order to address
the challenges women face. The structure of this publication
reflects, first, the core goals of social development and,
second, the social risks and global opportunities that challenge
the realization of these goals. Related themes addressed
include poverty and gender inequality, the feminization
of employment and unemployment, social integration and social
mobilization, social protection, social security and social
safety nets and women and ICT.
Table
of contents
Table
of Contents
Chap
1: Introduction
Chap
2: Poverty and Social Equity
Chap
3: Employment Expansion and Globalization
Chap
4: Social Integration and Social Mobilization
Chap
5: Social Pretection, Social Security, Social Safety Nets
Studies
on Gender in Development 4: Social Safety Nets for Women,
2003 (Award
Winner)
This
publication examines the social protection systems in a
selected number of Asian countries, particularly social
safety nets put in place temporarily to mitigate the effects
of the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, and the
reform of the social protection systems. The publication
would be useful for policy makers, planners, administrators,
academics and others in formulating and implementing effective
gender-respontive and sustainable social protection systems
and social safety nets.
Issues,
Policies and Outcomes: Are ICT Policies addressing Gender
Equality?, 2002
This
publication reviews the national, regional and global initiatives
for equal ICT access from a gender perspective, and to assess
how these initiatives had been translated into gender-sensitive
policies in the Asia and the Pacific region. It also includes
the meeting report of the Expert Group Meeting to Review
ICT Policy from a Gender Perspective in order to provide
an overall picture of the ICT policy initiatives and legislation
environment in the region. It is addressed to policy makers
with a view to promote establishment of gender-sensitive
ICT policies and strategies in the national context. Women’s
ICT organizations and advocates in the field of ICTs, gender
equality, and women’s empowerment will also find this
publication useful.
Women's
Organizatiions and their Use of Information and Communication
Technologies in the Caucasus and Central Asia Region: An
Exploratory Assessment, 2001
To
promote women’s and women’s groups’ full
participation in a rapidly changing global information society,
there is a need to identify the current situation of women’s
groups with respect to ICT use in order for them to be able
to take advantage of these new technologies to promote their
causes and missions. This publication explores the needs
and opportunities for women’s groups of ICTs for utilization
as a development tool. The results of this research, including
preliminary conclusions and recommendations, can be used
as an awareness-raising tool for policy makers, NGOs and
donors on the linkage between ICTs and women’s empowerment,
as well as for suggestions for technical assistance.
This
is the official report of the Asian Women in a Culture of
Peace Conference, held in Hanoi, Viet Nam in 2000. The Conference,
timely due to the closing of the International Year for
a Culture of Peace, was a collaboration between UNESCO and
UNESCAP. It provided a forum for Asian women to share their
visions, experiences, and strategies on peace-building and
non-violence in Asia, and to coordinate their actions for
the promotion of a culture of peace and sustainable and
environmentally sound development in the region. The publication
includes the Hanoi Declaration, a background paper on a
culture of peace from a gender perspective, a background
paper on the role of women in building peace in Asia and
the Pacific, as well as issue papers on education, training,
socialization, research, the mass media and communication,
and the economic empowerment of women as tools for the promotion
of women as effective and influential partners in peace-initiatives.
Using
CEDAW at the Grass Roots: Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in the Pacific,
2000
The
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW), the international bill of rights
for women, was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly
in December 1979. This publication is based on a project
which was implemented in the Pacific region in 1998-1999
to support the networking efforts of NGOs in promoting CEDAW.
Focal point NGOs identified their primary concerns regarding
CEDAW, and conducted public awareness campaigns and other
intitatives to foster women’s empowerment in the Pacific
Islands. The publication provides an analysis of NGOs’
valuable roles in facilitating the promotion of CEDAW, advocating
for women’s basic rights, and raising public awareness
of the importance of gender equality and sustainable development.
This
publication, which is a compilation of reports and country
perspectives, provides a sub-regional overview of violence
against women in South Asia. The focus is on domestic violence
and other violence in the community and workplaces such
as wife-beating, incest, dowry murder, foeticide, infanticide,
rape, sexual harassment, prostitution and trafficking in
women and children. Violence against women has been increasing
in the South Asian region in recent years. The publication
includes country reports on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka, as well as chapters on impacts of major interventions,
suggestions on action plans for the future and possible
areas of cooperation, and reviews of successful methods
of prevention and effective approaches to legislative and
policy intervention on violence against women.
Studies
on Women in Development 3: Improving the Status of Women
in Poverty, A Comparative status in poverty in Bangladesh,
India, Malaysia and the Philippines, 2000
This
publication is the final product of a project on “Improving
the Status of Women in Poverty”, and includes country
studies and analysis of the difficulties in designing, implementing
and evaluating poverty reduction strategies. The publication
reveals a need for qualitative indicators and genderized
macroeconomic policies, especially amidst structural adjustment
and the effects of globalization. Conceptual and methodological
issues related to poor female-headed and female-maintained
households in rural and urban areas are examined in the
context of country studies in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia
and the Philippines. Researchers, policy makers, NGOs and
advocacy groups working for poverty reduction will benefit
from this publication.
Bringing
the Beijing Platform for Action to the Grass Roots: Promoting
NGO-Government collaboration in the implementation of the
Jakarta Declaration for the advancement of women in Asia
and the Pacific and the Global Platform for Action, 1999
This
publication is based on a project to support women NGOs
in South Asia to link the international level of the women's
movement to the grass roots by assisting NGOs to communicate
the recommendations made during the Fourth World Conference
on Women and Forum '95. The project implementation process
of NGOs in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and
Sri Lanka) are introduced with samples of materials women
at the grass roots produced for bringing the Beijing Platform
for Action into their communities.
Studies
on Women in Development 2: Promoting Women's Rights as Human
Rights, 1999
The second publication in the “Studies on Women
in Development”, this study on “Human rights
and the Legal Status of Women in the Asian and the Pacific
Region” includes a report and the recommendations
of the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on the topic, recommendations
of the Expert Group Meeting, as well as background country
papers presented by the Meeting’s participants. The
EGM brought together experts from the UNESCAP region to
critically review the progress made towards women’s
equality with men in the field of human rights. The publication
is suitable and valuable for any researcher, practitioner,
policy makers and those working in international organizations
who works to strengthen the legal status of women in the
field of human rights, or in civil and private life.
Handbook
on Strengthening the Women's Information Network for Asia
and the Pacific through Computer Networking, 1999
This handbook is a result of a workshop on the same
title which was held in October 1997. In addition to introducing
the components of computer networking, its history and technical
requirements, the handbook describes the experiences of
national, regional and global efforts in promoting computer
networking to foster women’s empowerment and includes
a survey of several countries
Studies
on Women in Development 1: Human Rights and Legal Status
of Women in the Asian and Pacific Region, 1997
This first publication in the Studies on Women and
Development Series is a regional study prepared under the
UNESCAP project “Promotion of women’s rights
as human rights”. It is geared toward policy makers,
researchers, and NGOs to encourage them to promote women’s
rights as human rights and to promote cooperation in eliminating
all forms of discrimination against women. The current challenge
is to translate legal status into legal reality, and this
publication intends to shed light on the promotion of the
legal status of women and legal literacy as important issues
for women in this region.
Pacific Perspectives
