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The Women's Stream of the Asia-Pacific Research Network held a planning workshop in Bangkok, Thailand last July 20-21, 2007. The workshop was the venue of the medium-term planning of the stream which discussed specific proposals for the next four years. Among those who attended the planning workshop were the following: Asia Monitor Resource Center (AMRC), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law & Development (APWLD), Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM), Balochistan Rural Development Society (BRDRS), Center for Women's Resources, INDIES, Institute for Reproductive & Family Health, Roots for Equity, Thai NGO-COD, TIE-Asia, Sustainable Development Foundation, PAN-AP, VOICE, and APWLD members Innabuyog and Migrante International.
The planning workshop focused on six different topics: rural women, urban women, migration, services, war and trafficking.
There will be three (3) coordinated researches in 2008 which will tackle issues of rural women. The first will be a documentation of women's struggles and resistance, and assertion of food sovereignty. The second will be about internal migration and forced external migration which will look at the socio-economic, political and cultural impacts on the struggle for land, peasants' rights, integration programs, etc. This research will start this September 2007 and the final sharing of results will be during the International Migrants Assembly (IMA) in May 2008. The last research will be about barriers to women's access and control over land, territories and productive resources. This research will start in March 2008 as a workshop in the Asian Rural Women's conference.
A research on enterprise-based contractual labor, flexible labor with formal contract will be made and this will be published in August 2008. The concept paper on the research will be done by Azra Talat Sayeed. A coalition on contract labor will be created and will hold one regional meeting. Ramon Bultron will bring up the subject of forming the coalition with the Jobs & Justice Network.
There will be two major researches done under the topic of migration. The first will be about the different levels of resistance initiated by women and male migrants and their families, in both receiving and sending countries. The policy paper will be written by APMM. The second will be a migration policy paper on bilaterals and import/export policy. The concept paper will be drafted by Migrante and APWLD. This coordinated research will be started in 2009.
The Center for Women's Resources will prepare the concept paper for the conduct of a country level gender based study which will commence by April 2008. There are also plans to have a regional campaign video through YouTube against privatization. There will also be training and sharing of best practices of women's struggles on public service issues in a capacity building seminar in the last quarter of 2009.
There will be a coordinated study on the impact of the 'war on terror' on women to include analysis of laws/policies. This will be a coordinated collection of primary data on women who are directly impacted by the WOT in Pakistan, Philippines, Bangladesh and Malaysia. Country specific papers will be submitted and will be used to produce a synthesis paper at the Third International Assembly (TIA) of the International League of Peoples Struggle. This may later be developed into a book that may be launched in the 2009 APRN conference.
There will be a gender based baseline survey of each country in 2007-2008. The Center for Women's Resources will come out with guide questions and will collate all the surveys to be presented in the IMA. For the next two years, there will be interventions simultaneously through education and information campaigns.
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