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Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Agriculture Citizenship and Governance Climate Change Coorporate Accountability Criminal Justice Culture De-mining Development Disabled Persons Energy Environment Extreme poverty Financing for Development Food Governance HIV/AIDS Human Rights Indigenous Peoples Information International Law Justice Labour Least Developed Countries Migration Minority Rights Peace and Security Population Private Sector Refugees Religion Social Development Statistics Sustainable Development Torture Trade and Development Violence Water Women Women/gender Equality Financing for Development: Addressing systemic issues Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Information and communication technologies Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Policy advice Research Violence against women Women and armed conflict Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the environment Women in power and decision-making Social Development: Conflict Disabled persons Employment Indigenous issues Poverty Social policy Sustainable Development: Agriculture Biodiversity Capacity-building Climate change Disaster management and vulnerability Energy Finance Gender equality Indicators Information for decision-making and participation International cooperation for an enabling environment International law Major Groups Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.) Mining Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Trade and environment
Geographic scope:	Regional Asia Oceania
Country of activity:	Cambodia Tonga Viet Nam Myanmar Papua New Guinea Vanuatu Samoa India Pakistan Japan China Timor-Leste Kyrgyzstan Malaysia Mongolia Lao People's Democratic Republic Singapore Tuvalu Solomon Islands Kazakhstan Indonesia Fiji Bangladesh Thailand Republic of Korea Philippines Nepal Sri Lanka
Millennium Development Goals:	Promote gender equality and empower women Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	APWLD is the region’s leading network of feminist organisations and women. Our 180 members represent groups of diverse women from 26 countries in the region. We have been active for nearly 25 years. APWLD has consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. APWLD uses research, training, advocacy and activism to claim and strengthen women’s human rights as enshrined in UN international human rights instruments. APWLD empowers women in the region to use law as an instrument of change for equality, justice, peace and development. We believe that justice, equality and the eradication of poverty cannot be achieved without a strong, vibrant women’s movement active in civil society. We believe that law can be transformative as well as repressive. We seek to dissect, engage with and transform laws, legal practices and the systems that shape and inform them. We believe that the fusion of patriarchy with militarisation, fundamentalisms and neo-liberal economic globalisation is responsible for gross violations of women’s rights. We believe that equality, development and the realisation of human rights can only happen when women, particularly marginalised women, are empowered to lead policy and legal debates and articulate solutions. We believe that a transformative form of democratic leadership can bring about the structural changes required to claim and advance women’s rights.
Year established:	1986
Year of registration:	1986
Organizational structure:	Our diverse membership provides the strength and expertise that both drives and executes our programme activities. APWLD is governed by a Programme and Management Committee comprised from a larger Regional Council of active members. Our Secretariat in Chiangmai carries out day to day operations and provides for programme implementation as well as financial and technical support.
Number and type of members:	We have 200 organisational and individual members across 26 countries in Asia-Pacific. Approximately 60% of our members are organisational and 40% individual. Member organisations represent a diverse segment of women across legal, activist and academic arenas. This includes, but is not limited to; LGBTI women, indigenous women, migrant women, rural women, refugee women, women with disabilities, domestic workers, young women, past, present and aspiring parliamentarians, and CEDAW Committee members. Affiliations: APWLD is affiliated with several international and regional NGO networks. We co-convene the Southeast Asia Women’s Caucus on ASEAN (Regional); sit on the executive of the Women Human Rights Defender’s Coalition (International); and co-facilitate the United for Foreign Domestic Workers Rights Coalition (Regional). We are on several steering bodies which include the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition and Asian Consortium. APWLD is a member of the Global Facilitation Group of Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness and a member of the Better Aid Coordinating Group. We have numerous other regional and international affiliations which include International Migrants Association, World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML), ISIS Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (ISIS-WICCE), Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), Front Line and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC).
Affiliation with NGO networks:	see above
Funding structure:	Foreign and international grants

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