Hi Chat,
Thanks for your comments. I will use them in my own internal Forum Asia
reporting. Does anyone else have any views they would like to share. If
you send them in I can try to compile a list of our lessons learned.
More Sleep!!! I am all for that.
Sacha
Chat Garcia Ramilo wrote:
> 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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