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Regional Training on Equal Status and Human Rights of Women in Southeast Asia

Gender and Development for Cambodia (GAD/C) hosted a regional training entitled ‘Equal Status and Human Rights of Women in Southeast Asia’ on 10-21 November 2008 in Phnom Penh in partnership with Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), a Swedish institution. 22 participants from 8 Southeast Asian countries namely, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Lao PDR, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Timor-Leste attended the training. Organization of the training workshop was possible with generous support of SIDA.

The general objective of the training is to improve practical application of international and regional standards for the promotion and protection of gender equality and human rights of women in the Southeast Asia region.

With lasting for two weeks, this training focused on two basic components: main standards and mechanisms of international human rights law with women and gender as crosscutting issues; and human rights issue of women in the South East Asian.

The specific topics covered in the program included: development of international human rights standards, legal instruments, monitoring mechanisms, civil and political rights, economic, social and cultural rights, equal status of women and the principle of non-discrimination, in-depth study of the provisions in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its monitoring mechanism, traditional practices and religious customs versus human rights of women, the role of international conferences and political commitments, human trafficking, the rights of the child, violence against women, access to education for women, women and work and political participation of women.