Fwd: GREAT result Daphne, well done!: women major group statement - 1st draft

[Lorna Roxas]

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From: Lorna Roxas <ukpa...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: GREAT result Daphne, well done!: women major group statement - 1st draft
To: Sascha Gabizon <sascha....@wecf.eu>

Dear Sacha and all women on the road to Rio+20.

 

The 2nd day, 20th of October of Asia-Pacific Regional
Meeting for Rio+20  was indeed a great day

for women groups in terms of space for statements.

 

There was adequate  space for the women major group

statement during the plenary which text was prepared

by all asia-pacific organizations in the women's major group

especially, Tess ( APWLD) , Marjo (PANAP), Anita ( DAWN),
 and Yukiko ( Kitakyushu) and Meena ( WOCAN).
Meena  as woman major group  focal person  had the final say
 in reading the entire text during the plenary.

I think Meena  is the best source on what was the final version of
the Women's Major Group statement to post/ distribute  around.

 

Another victory was the space given by UNESCAP and UNEP

for me to read the Asian Women's Declaration on Gender Justice

and the Green Economy as Outcome of the Asian Women's Forum

in Bangkok, Thailand  together with  Chee Yoke Ling of Third World
Network  who read the Major Group Statement, the   Scientists Group and the
 Ibon Foundation. I am really so thankful to UNESCAP

and UNEP for the space given to me  to read the Declaration in the rostrum  and

on stage and elaborate more on the Asian women's concerns.

Will  give full report  next time because right now we , Meena, Anita, Marjo and

Tess  and others are about to have a korean soju drinking celebration and solidarity dinner.

Soju is on me ( Daphne)  Meena says.

 

Cheers!

 

Daphne Roxas, Executive Director,
Asian Women's Network on Gender and Development
and Co-convener, Helena Z. Benitez, Global Forum

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Sascha Gabizon <sascha....@wecf.eu> wrote:

On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Lorna Roxas wrote:

Thanks Tess (APWLD) and Marjo ( PANAP),.

 

I am very happy that it includes most

of our discussions in the last two days

and also the consensus Bangkok

Declaration. Do you have already the

final version.

 

Did you email it also to Anita?

 

Hope this will go in to the

final document of the major group's meeting

and the main meeting on

today and on the 20th.

 

It was really a victory for women

during the workshops of the major

groups, 2nd day. After the initial invisibility of women

and gender issues  in most of the discussions

of the first day of the major stakeholders,

I think  most  got a shock from the

expression of dismay from myself and

Anita  Nayer  for the absence of gender in the

summary report presented by the

secretariat for the first day as input

for the workshops. I am happy that

most of the workshops included now

gender dimension and women's rights.

 

Thanks Tess and Marjo for the initiative.

 

More power!

 

Daphne

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Tess Vistro <tessv...@yahoo.com> wrote:

hi all,

 

please find the 1st draft of our statement as WMG, based on our discussion this afternoon. please make the necessary edits, additions and comments.

 

tess and marjo

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