On 9-11 Sept, Nisha Onta, Knowledge Management Coordinator, attended the Regional Meeting to Build Inter-movement Linkages in Poverty, Food Sovereignty, Food Security, Gender and SRHR in South Asia, organized by The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) in Bangkok, Thailand. The outcome of the meeting was the Bangkok Cross-Movement Call on Poverty, Food Sovereignty and SRHR.
Achieving social justice for all requires addressing issues of poverty, hunger, landlessness, gender inequality, their root causes, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), together.
This is the core message of the Bangkok Cross-Movement Call on Poverty, Food Sovereignty, and SRHR, which was developed and endorsed by more than cross-movement activists, advocates and representatives of 16 organizations and networks working on poverty, food sovereignty, food security, women’s rights, gender justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues in and across Asia.
This regional meeting is part of a project supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation that aims to draw linkages among anti-poverty, food sovereignty, food security and SRHR movements. Several global development processes are currently ongoing: the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) +20 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) +15 global reviews, as well as the post-2015 development agenda processes. These present opportunities to position key issues of the Asia-Pacific, including SRHR, squarely on the new development agenda. Bringing together key stakeholders from across the food security, food sovereignty, anti-poverty and SRHR movements, this meeting is a step towards this breaking down development silos and a synergistic mode of operating, and towards recognizing that our rights-based struggles are interconnected. The objective was to come up with recommendations that will be used as a joint advocacy document at the CSO Forum and at the 6th Asia Pacific Population Conference (APPC), the Open Working Group of the General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals, as well as in other key regional and global meetings related to the post-2015.
For more info:http://www.arrow.org.my/?p=bangkok-cross-movement-call-on-poverty-food-sovereignty-and-srhr