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Greetings from International
Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific!
We’re happy to announce that
IWRAW Asia Pacific will conduct a Regional
Training of Trainers for women’s rights leaders in the Asia Pacific region who
wish to promote equality and the human rights of women through engagement with
the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
(CEDAW).
The training will be held from 25-31 May 2008 in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Participants in the training
will gain an understanding of the social construction of gender and the
systemic nature of discrimination; the law and its potential to empower women;
the international human rights system; the theoretical framework, principles
and procedures of CEDAW; and how CEDAW can be applied in the local context
through a rights-based approach. At the end of the training, participants will
be able to lead trainings on CEDAW at the local and national levels and use the
knowledge gained to mobilise others to activism and powerfully advocate for the
advancement of women’s rights.
We’re
writing to ask your help in identifying potential participants who will be
strong trainers and advocates for women’s rights using the principles and
promise of CEDAW. Although
not all of you are in the Asia Pacific region, you can pass it on to your
colleagues and friends who have an Asia Pacific base.
Participants
will be selected based on the strength of their applications and the following
criteria:
- They
must have experience and a solid grounding in gender and human rights;
- They
must have some experience and skills conducting women’s rights trainings
(experience with trainings on CEDAW is not essential);
- They
must have an institutional base in the Asia Pacific region that works on
women’s rights and has a training agenda or plans to introduce a
training agenda on CEDAW AND/OR must be interested in
conducting trainings on CEDAW for IWRAW Asia Pacific and national level
organisations.
Full
funding is available on a limited basis. Due to the limited number of
spaces, not all applicants will be selected to participate in the
training.
To apply for the training,
please complete the attached APPLICATION
FORM and email or fax it to iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org or +603
2283 2552 along with the following documents by Friday, 22 February 2008:
- Current
CV (maximum 3 pages).
- Letter
of recommendation/support from the organisation you are affiliated with
(if applicable). This letter should include information on how your
participation in the training will benefit the organisation; in what way
the organisation works on CEDAW or plans to incorporate CEDAW into its
activities; and to what extent the organisation plans to organise or
support future CEDAW trainings in your country.
International
Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific) was founded in
1993 to work towards the realisation of the human rights of women through the
use of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against
Women (CEDAW) and other international human rights instruments. The
crosscutting premise justifying IWRAW Asia Pacific’s past, present and future
areas of work is the need for the mobilisation of women’s groups to draw
accountability from their governments on the domestic application of human
rights standards. It views CEDAW and other international treaties as tools for
bringing about change at all levels and in a wide range of contexts (e.g.,
violence against women, employment, marriage, citizenship, rural development).
IWRAW Asia Pacific currently works in 14 countries in South and Southeast
Asia and over 100 countries globally. For further information visit
our website, http://www.iwraw-ap.org.
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