Learning Across Boundaries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, Publications

Publications Year 2002

Cross-Border Sexuality in the Greater Mekong Sub-region Executive Summary: Institute for Health Sciences, Kunming Medical College, Kunming, China

The workshop on 'Cross-border Sexuality in the Greater Mekong Sub-region' is part of a series of activities related to the 6th Asia-Pacific Social Sciences and Medicines Conference (APPSAM) held in Kunming on October 14-18, 2002.

In particular this workshop emerges from a response to a range of issues concerning sexuality health at a time of social and economic change in the GMS and the resultant increased movement across borders.

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Institute for Health Science
Kunming Medical College
191 Renmin West Road
Kunming, Yunnan
650031 P.R.CHINA
Tel: (86-871) 536 4693, 533 9612
Fax: (86-871) 531 1542
Email yrhra@km.col.com.cn, yrhra@public.km.yn.cn

Gender and Identity-Based Politics: Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Chiang Mai, Thailand

The Gender and Identity Based Politics Workshop was initiated by the Task Force on Women's Rights Human Rights (TF WRHR) of APWLD, in collaboration with Komnas Perempuan, Solidaritas Perempuan, Koalisi Perempuan Indonesia and RAHIMA.

The three day workshop brought together more than 50 women activists, community organizers, academics from the region along with their questions, stories and musings on identity politics: what role does identity-based politics play in women's everyday lives; how does it affect the women's movements and in turn, how does the women's movement mobilise by way of identity; what are some of the strategies adopted by the women's movement with the context of the politics of identity.

The workshop discussed issues of globalization and how it impacts the multiple identities of women, and how it exacerbates the gender-based identity politics. The participants also examined and problematised the local and global forces at play -fundamentalist regions, traditional culture and practices that are gender-biased and increasingly right-wing nation-states-in order to formulate new and inclusive strategies for the women's movement.

The workshop provided the participants with information on the use of various relevant international conventions on human rights, with focus on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The use of media as a powerful tool in perpetuating particular identities was explored as a strategy in challenging gender and identity-based politics.

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Media and Sexuality: Between Sensationalism and Censorship: AIDS Society of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines

Satellite Symposium held at the Sixth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.

Media is not only a mirror society, but also shapes its very contents. Similarly, HIV/AIDS coverage not only reflects the way a certain society deals with the epidemic, but also helps define how people and institutions in that society relate to sexuality and HIV/AIDS in everyday life.

This report illustrates this point by examining how in different Asian societies the media, particularly print media, view sexuality, safe sex and HIV/AIDS. In doing so, it also discusses the way various governments respond to the epidemic; the problematic relationship between authorities ad media in protecting moral values; and the changing societal attitude towards sexuality, which is leading to new expectations towards media reporting.

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Migration in the Mekong- Annotated Bibliography: Asian Migrant Center, Hong Kong

AMC, together with regional and country research partners initiated a one-year collaborative action research on "Mapping Migration Issues, Needs, and Strategies in the GMS.

The bibliography covered in this book is composed of 5 sections:

*Section 1 provides you an overview of migration in the GMS, as well as
the general comments and review of the resource materials;
*Section 2 the annotated bibliography of key publications;
*Section 3 provides a list of other relevant references, without annotations;
*Section 4 provides a list of web-based materials; and
*Section 5 provides a list of organization working on migration related issues.

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Migration Needs, Issues and Responses in the Greater Mekong Subregion--A Resource Book: Asian Migrant Center, Hong Kong : printed in 2002, with reprinting in 2005

This is one of the outputs of the 2001-2002 collaborative research done by AMC and Mekong Migration Network with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. This one year project on "Mapping Migration Issues, Needs, Strategies in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS)" aimed to survey and identify the key issues, needs, action groups and responses on migration-related issues in the six countries in the GMS.

This reseource book is organized as follows:
1. The Regional Synthesis summarizes the highlights of all the country reports and makes a subregional analysis;

2. The six country reports discuss in detail the main issues, needs, gabs and recommendations;

3. The list of resource/action groups at the end of the book features the organizations working on migration-related issues, including the project partners for this research.

For more information please visit www.asian-migrants.org
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Cover page (1 page, 30 KB, Acrobat File)
Regional Synthesis (20 pages, 352 KB, Acrobat File)
Burma (30 pages, 372 KB, Acrobat File)
Cambodia (32 pages, 343 KB, Acrobat File)
Yunnan (31 pages, 396 KB, Acrobat File)
Lao PDR (30 pages, 361 KB, Acrobat File)
Thailand (33 pages, 481 KB, Acrobat File)
Vietnam (27 pages, 422 KB, Acrobat File)
Organizations (17 pages, 37 KB, Acrobat File)

Mobile Populations and HIV Vulnerability Selected Responses in South East Asia: UNDP HIV & Development Southeast Asia, Bangkok, Thailand

"This publication is a collection of papers presented at a special session of the 6th ICAAP, Melbourne, Australia portraying the experiences of mobile populations from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam in dealing with HIV. The purpose is to help break down barriers and give insight to the communities sharing their experiences."

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The Gender and Reproductive Health Research Initiative - Mapping a Decade of Reproductive Health Research in India (1990-2000): Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action, New Delhi, India

CREA empowers women to articulate, demand and access their human rights by enhancing women’s leadership and focusing on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, violence against women, women’s rights and social justice.

The Gender and Reproductive Health Research Initiative was supported by The Ford Foundation. Support for printing, publishing and dissemination was provided by The Rockefeller Foundation.

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