| Plenary 1: Feminisms Through Generations – Part I |
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani 
Secretary General, Third World Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya, 1985
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Nighat Said Khan
ASR Resource Centre (Pakistan)
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Mitchiko Nakamura (On video) 
Japan Women’s Watch (Japan)
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Sumalee Chartikavanij (On video)
Thai Women Watch (Thailand)
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Kamla Bhasin (On video)
South AsianNetwork of Gender Activists and Trainers (India
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Claire Slatter (On video)
DAWN (Fiji)
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Yayori Matsui
In Memoriam |
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Cai Yiping
Isis International (China)
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| Plenary 2: Feminisms Through Generations – Part II |
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Shuchi Karim
Women and Gender Studies Department, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh)
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Emee Lei Albano
United Nations Population Fund (Philippines)
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Eriko Tanno
Japan Women’s Watch (Japan)
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Satsuki Murase
University of Sacred Heart (Japan)
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Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki
Women and Children's Crisis Center (Tonga) |
| October 23 - Plenary 3: An Agency for Women in the UN, At Last! |
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Charlotte Bunch
Centre for Women’s Global Leadership (USA)
The difficult and tiresome efforts of the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) campaign to get a women's agency for women in the UN. What have we gained and achieved? What is still needed? What are our (Women's movements) criteria for this agency?
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Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
femLINKPACIFIC - Media Initiatives for Women (Fiji)
An Agency for the Women in the UN at Last?
On the importance of just and sustainable peace in the Pacific. What kind of actions are needed by the UN to go beyond the ratification of resolutions such as 1325 and 1820 but to implement these resolutions. And what the Women's organisations have been doing in this regard.
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Tahira Abdullah
Human Rights Activist (Pakistan)
The awareness about the GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) in Pakistan is very minimal at government level but also among civil society. This one of the findings of a study done in Pakistan. Findings and concrete recommendations to the UN and conclusions.
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Gigi Francisco
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (Philippines)
South East Asia GEAR Campaign in particular country level presence and financing. The gender equality architecture that will be built at the global level needs to be linked to the gender equality architecture at the national level.
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| Plenary 4: Gender in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Jean D’ Cunha
Regional Programme Director, UNIFEM East & Southeast Asia Regional Office (Thailand)
How women face many more difficulties in disasters than men because of the sex segregated cultures which limit women's movements, access to information and abilities to safe themselves.
How to use the international conventions to support women in disaster situation. What is concretely needed?
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Mariko Saito
Global Gender Climate Alliance (Japan)
Gender and Climate Finance
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Prativa Chhetri
Asia Pacific Regional Office, World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (Nepal)
The role of community radio in disaster prevention, risk reduction, disaster response, trauma healing and reconstruction. The missing gender link in all these and the importance of women's participation.
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Fery Lumampao
Approtech Asia (Philippines)
Adaptation Technologies
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October 24 - Plenary 5: Gender and Human Security in Situations of Conflict and Post-Conflict
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Rukhshanda Naz
Aurat Foundation (Pakistan)
How women's needs and voices were completely left out by the government support to the internally displaced people by the war in Pakistan and how women NGOs were not allowed to work with the women in the refugee camps
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Irene Santiago
Mothers for Peace (Philippines)
The campaign of Mothers for Peace to draw the attention on the situation of women, particularly mothers among the internally displaced people by the bombings in Mindanao.
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Mu Sochua
Member of Parliament (Cambodia)
The challenges of being a women parliamentarian in the opposition coming form civil society, particularly in Cambodia where the democratic space is becoming smaller every day.
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Plenary 6: Beyond the Crises: Forging Ahead with Development Alternatives
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Liu Bohong
All China Women’s Federation (China)
Importance of the World Conference on Women in Beijing 1995 and drastic changes the different forms of crises have brought to the lifes of many women. After successes of the Beijing Conference the women's movement expected women's situation to improve. The women's movement did not imagine that for many women the situation could worsen drastically.
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Tea Soentoro
NGO Forum on ADB (Indonesia)
Women are never asked what kind of development we want. Development projects of the Asia Development Bank and other development agencies often put women into deep crises, because their voices are not heard about their alternatives to their development projects.
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Gita Sen
DAWN (India)
What is specific and new about the this crisis?
What are the alternatives of the women's movement for the economy and society that can give flesh to the creation of a new society and a new economy?
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