Applications Invited for Asia and the Pacific Regional Feminist Legal Theory and Practice (FLTP) Training

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About the Organization

APWLD is the leading network of feminist organisations and individual activists in Asia and the Pacific. Our 265 members represent groups of diverse women from 30 countries in Asia and the Pacific. Over the past 34 years, APWLD has actively worked towards advancing women’s human rights and Development Justice. We are an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organisation and hold consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

APWLD fosters feminist movements in Asia Pacific to influence laws, policies and practices at the local, national, regional and international levels. We develop capacities, produce and disseminate feminist analyses, conduct advocacy and foster networks and spaces for movement building to claim and strengthen women’s human rights. APWLD empowers women in the region to use law as an instrument of change for equality, justice, peace and Development Justice.

About the Event

Feminist Legal Theory and Practice, or FLTP, is an APWLD training programme which promotes the application of  feminist analysis, deeper grounding in human rights and the use of the law or legal strategies to uphold women’s human rights. Participatory methodologies and approach to learning are carefully integrated to the programme and effectively challenge systemic and structural barriers to women’s human rights. As such the FLTP draws on the  experiences and perspectives of women from rural, indigenous, migrant, urban poor women groups and WHRDs in the APWLD network and those they work within the Asia-Pacific region, to make it rich and dynamic.

APWLD will organise its next Asia and the Pacific regional FLTP training in June 2023 targeting young lawyers, attorneys, activists, academics, human rights advocates and Women Human Rights’ Defenders (WHRDs).

Objectives of this Training

The main objectives for having the Asia and the Pacific Regional FLTP are as follows:

• To develop greater understanding of gender, gender based discrimination, feminist theories, intersectionality, equity and equality, law and international human rights mechanisms;
• To enable participants to share their experiences of feminist legal advocacy and feminist legal strategies;
• To identify and address the limitations and challenges encountered by women’s rights advocates in their use of legal strategies to address women’s rights issues;
• To enhance the capability of participants to effectively challenge discriminatory laws and practices in their countries by feminist, rights-based legal practice and by applying international conventions and precedents for advancement of women’s human rights;
• To ignite campaigns to advance women’s human rights in the region;
• To bring WHRDs and women rights activists to the Regional level feminist movement and build a network of feminist legal practitioners and activists.

The training will be for 5 days focusing on the following themes: analysis of women’s lives and realities; feminism and women’s movement; structural and systemic forces of oppression (globalisation, fundamentalism, militarisation and patriarchy); feminist development justice, feminist analysis of the Law, women human rights and developments in international law and feminist legal strategies and approaches for supporting women human rights defenders.

This training will create a pool of regional FLTP graduates (FLTP Grads) who will use the FLTP framework as part of the movement to support substantive legal change that uphold women’s human rights.

Eligibility

• Training is open to all genders.
• APWLD members as well as non-members from Asia and the Pacific region may apply.
• Judges, lawyers, young feminists and  activists, prosecutors, case workers, academics, media persons, women human rights defenders, writers, poets, who engage with law or use law for women’s human rights and social justice and support feminist values.
• Activists and development workers engaged with national, international and sub-regional bodies on issues of marginalised groups, for example: land, food, climate, migration, labour, information and digital rights, political participation, LGBTQI+ movements etc.

How to Apply

All applicants should submit a completed on-line application form and send it along with their Curriculum Vitae (CV).

A recommendation letter is needed from the institution or organisation that certifies that the person recommended has worked in the area of women’s human rights and is committed to applying the core learning points from the training in their future work.

Deadline of Submission of Applications is on 31 March 2023

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