58th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
11-21 March 2014
Asian Indigenous Women's Network Side Event
Wednesday, 12 March 2014; 13:15 – 14:45
Conference Room, Floor 4, UNICEF
Development and Indigenous Women in Asia
While the international community continuous to debate on sustainable development, indigenous women the world over are and have been historically in the back burners of so-called development. In a world where discrimination prevails, sustainable development for indigenous women will remain a rhetoric.
The side event will focus on the disproportionate impacts of consumerist/cash based development paradigm to indigenous women in Nepal and the Philippines. Particularly, it will look at the issues of trafficking among Tamang women in Nepal and the mining-related women’s rights violations in the Philippines. It hopes to generate further discussions, contribute and substantiate inputs to ongoing processes related to women, development and indigenous peoples i.e. the upcoming World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Cairo + 20, Beijing +20 and the SDG/Post 2015 Agenda among others.
Speakers are designated representatives from the following indigenous women’s organizations/networks in Asia:
Bipasha Chakma
Researcher, Kapaeeng Foundation, Bangladesh
Norma Capuyan
Spokeswoman, Bai (Indigenous Women’s Federation), Philippines
Chanda Thapa
Regional Indigenous Women Program Coordinator,
Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Pact (AIPP), Thailand
and in behalf of the National Federation of Indigenous Women
(NIWF) and the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities
(NEFIN), Nepal
Moderator: Eleanor Dictaan-Bang-oa, Secretariat, AIWN
This side-event is sponsored by the Asian Indigenous Women’s Network (AIWN) with support from Tebtebba and the United Nations Fund for Gender Equality (UNFGE) and FIMI.