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I speak on behalf of the women of the Asia Pacific region; a region comprising 60 percent of the world’s women and representing the greatest diversity of women.

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AP women call for GEAR at UN CSW

Asia Pacific women are lobbying governments to support the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) of the United Nations at the ongoing 52nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, USA from 25 February to 5 March 2008. These women are among the 5,000 women from various civil society groups around the world who have committed to monitor their government's participation in the two-week process and join the nearly 20 side sessions scheduled every day.

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The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be held at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 25 February to 7 March 2008. Taking advantage of this international meeting on women issues, a coalition of over 150 international non-governmental organizations will bring back the momentum on the advocacy for stronger gender equality architecture reform (GEA) in the UN.

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For feminists, the US elections is more than the usual spectacle, as it surfaces the social categories, locations, histories and movements which have been eschewed in many governance processes, especially economic, social and foreign affairs policies. After all, this is only the ninth occasion when a woman has sought the presidency. In a sense, this elections is about taking stock out of the more than two centuries preaching of democracy.


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Feminists in Mongolia, led by Jurmed Zanaa of Center for Citizens' Alliance (former CEDAW Watch Center), submitted an appeal to the Constitutional Court to contest the removal of an article in the election law that had set a 30 percent quota for women in the candidates in parliamentary elections. The appeal refers the legislative body to Mongolia's commitments to international treaties on gender discrimination, including the Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

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In an effort to intimidate feminist-activists, the Nicaraguan government and other right-wing groups charged 9 prominent women's rights leaders with criminal violations for their work in denouncing crimes of violence and sexual abuse. Nicaraguan feminists are now calling for solidarity and international support for these women’s rights advocates.