Hi Everyone,
Together with other Gender Forum participants, I'd like to join Kio Chung,
Mavic and Hiroko in thanking GLOCOM for the all your good work in the Tokyo
events. Maraming salamat (that's thank you in my language) Izumi, Adam,
Yumiko, Masuda and everyone who worked in the background. Specifically, I
would like to thank you for supporting participants of the gender forum.
In the brief assessment that the Gender Forum participants had, everyone
appreciated the opportunity to be able to come together to discuss issues
critical to women and to advocate for the inclusion of gender equality in
the content and process of WSIS. While we felt that we didn't make as much
headway in getting more coverage of gender concerns in the declaration, we
valued the resulting strengthening of a network that can continue to
advocate for gender equality in information and communications, hopefully
in many more forums.
Lastly, I just want to say that for gender activists and feminists, working
within our own networks as well as within the broad civil society space,
such as the AP NGO Forum, is always doubly demanding. In these situations,
we usually have to juggle our time between working on gender and women's
issues and participating in broader civil society issues which are equally
our concerns. In Tokyo, we stretched the limits of our multi-tasking
capacity to participate meaningfully in the overall NGO spaces. I'd like to
thank everyone for the support for gender issues and the space for gender
advocates. Hopefully, there will come a time when gender equality becomes
truly mainstreamed and there won't be a need for separate gender forums.
Then we can enjoy a little bit more sleep :)
warm regards to all,
Chat
At 04:44 PM 1/23/03 +0800, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I also would like to join everyone in thanking Yumiko, Izumi, and Adam for
>coordinating the AP NGO efforts in Tokyo. It's no joke organising such
>event especially in a situation where NGO participation is put under
>serious questions.
>
>Thanks too to everyone who contributed and participated in all the NGO
>activities in Tokyo. It was a pleasure meeting all of you.
>
>On another note, I know that Malaysiakini is back online but I guess it is
>not too late to say our piece as APNGOCC. We can draft a statement
>condemning the raid and circulate it as widely as possible and perhaps
>publish it in Malaysiakini itself. What do people think?
>
>As well, I share Serena's concern on how are we going to proceed with
>finalising the NGO response to the Tokyo declaration.
>
>Warm regards,
>
>Mavic
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