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Sixth
(6th) Asia Pacific Congress of
Women
in
Politics
December 14, 2005
Dear Friends,
The Center
for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP) would like to invite
women and
men interested in promoting women in leadership and decision
making to attend
the Sixth (6th) Asia Pacific Congress of Women in
Politics
to be held on February 10-12, 2006 at the
Asian Institute of Management
(AIM) Conference Center, in Makati City,
Philippines.
In 1995, at the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women,
one of the twelve
(12) areas of concern was women's participation in power
and decision
making. This agenda was pursued by women in government and
non-government
sectors. Yet current observations indicate that "despite
women's increased
participation in local governments, women are found in very
small numbers
and have little impact in governance at the national
level. Women's
representation in government is tokenistic which impedes
the real change and
progress that women can make even when they are in
power." (CAPWIP, Global
Congress of Women in Politics, The Purple Book, p.
49)
Along this line, in the last twelve years, the Center for Asia
Pacific Women
in Politics (CAPWIP) organized congresses every two years to
gather women
and men interested in promoting women's participation in power
and decision
making to discuss plans and strategies to promote women's
participation in
leadership and politics.
The objective of the
congress is to take stock of the women's situation and
progress in promoting
women's political participation, identify strategic
gaps and appropriate
courses of action for the next decade.
The Sixth (6th) Asia Pacific
Congress of Women in Politics will have the
following
objectives:
a. To review and examine the
Asia Pacific situation on women in
leadership, decision making and politics
in the current global context;
b. To
identify gaps and weaknesses in development actions to promote
women's
participation
c. To define future courses
of action to promote women's participation
in leadership and
politics
The Sixth (6th) Asia Pacific Congress of Women in Politics
seeks to address
these objectives and define a practical platform of action
that will be
presented to the Global Congress of Women in Politics that is
also being
organized by CAPWIP. This will be held on March 2, 2006 in
New York City,
and to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) annual
meeting on Feb
28-March 10, 2006 at the United Nations (UN).
As the
preparatory body for the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing,
the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was mandated by the
General
Assembly to play a central role in monitoring, within the UN system,
the
implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and advise the
Economic and
Social Council thereon.
From 1996, the main focus of work of the
Commission on the Status of Women
has been the follow-up to the Fourth World
Conference on Women and
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action. Following
the adoption by the General Assembly, at its
twenty-third special session in
June 2000, of the Political Declaration, and
Further actions and initiatives
to implement the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action (i.e. the
"outcome e document"), the Commission's work
now focuses on the
implementation of both.
In 2006, the theme for the CSW
annual meeting on Feb 28-March 10, 2006 at
the UN is as
follows:
" Enhanced participation of
women in development: an enabling
environment for achieving gender equality
and the advancement of women,
taking into account, inter alia, the fields of
education, health and work;
" Equal
participation of women and men in decision-making processes at
all
levels.
The Sixth (6th) Asia Pacific Congress of Women in Politics will be
held on
February 10-12, 2006 at the Asian Institute of Management Conference
Center,
in Makati City, Philippines (www.aim.edu.ph).
The registration fee is US$500
per participant. This
includes:
1. Conference materials and
handouts;
2. Hotel twin accommodation at the
Asian Institute of Management
Training Center (add US $100 for single room
accommodation);
3. Breakfast, buffet lunch and
two snacks for the three days (February
10-12, 2006). Dinner for the
three days is for the individual account of
the
participants;
4. Airport transfer in and
out
For reservations, please contact:
Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)4227-4229 Tomas
Claudio Street Baclaran, Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines,(632)
8522112, (632)8516934 Tele Fax:(6322) 8522112 mobile phone 632 0918
9403711;
Web:www.capwip.org; www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org
The Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
welcomes relevant
papers that you would like to present or share with the
other participants
during the congress. Sustainable development needs the
participation of
women at the decision making levels. We hope that you
will find time to
join the Sixth Asia Pacific Congress of Women in Politics
on February 10-12,
and contribute to the promotion of women in power and
decision making in the
Asia Pacific region and globally through the Global
Congress of Women in
Politics and the UN.
We hope that you can join us
in this important activity.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Jung Sook
Kim
President
Center for Asia Pacific Women in Politics
(CAPWIP