Beijing+25 Regional Ministerial Meetings and Civil Society Forum

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Young peacebuilders, human rights defenders and climate activists came together from all over Asia Pacific, one of the most diverse regions in the world with the highest population of young people, to reaffirm commitments to the CEDAW and Beijing25 Declaration and Platform for Action in Bangkok.

Asian Youth Peace Network in collaboration with Global Network of Women Peacebuilders distributed this youth policy brief on Women, Peace and Security: Http://PeaceNetwork.asia/Beijing25. 

 We spoke about breaking the silos, and the need to not oversimplify the gender and age nexus, the increase of securitization in the region, as well structural gendered violence across all ages, castes, classes, disabilities, nationalities, and other communities. We speak for the social contract of governments to be accountable to their people’s.

 Here’s a quote, in solidarity with the Asia Pacific Civil Society Forum: 

“ Our solution to this crisis lies in unity and solidarity across our communities... We are deepening our intersectional analysis, creating positive narratives, believing survivors, loving indiscriminately, learning from the lived realities of those around us, changing the ways we organise, listening to those that came before us, and paving the way to a feminist

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