[APWSLMembers 496] WISAP
KMU International Department
international at kilusangmayouno.org
Tue Feb 27 09:23:49 JST 2007
10th Women’s International Solidarity Affair in the Philippines (WISAP
2007)
Manila, Philippines
February 15, 2007
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce that the 10th Women’s International
Solidarity Affair in the Philippines (WISAP 2007) organized and hosted
by GABRIELA National Alliance of Women’s Organization will be held
this year from July 29 to August 5 with the theme: “The Women’s Vision:
Strategies and Tactics of Women’s Resistance”. WISAP will be a
venue for sharing women’s various strategies of resistance against
violence against women and repression.
WISAP 2007 will bring together 200 women involved with women’s work
from individual advocates of women’s rights to representatives of
women’s organizations, from those involved in projects and programs
for women, to those involved in movement building, from women
parliamentarians to women involved in national liberation movements,
whether as activists, organizers and/advocates. WISAP schedules will
be:
Arrival : 29 July, Sunday
Exposure : 30 July – 01 August
Rest Day : 02 August
Conference : 03 – 05 August (12 Noon)
03 – Opening Ceremonies and Plenary Speeches
04 – Workshops
05 - Plenary
WISAP participants will take part in an exposure program to different
regions of the Philippines from July 30-August 1 to look into the situation
of poverty, women’s human rights and violence against women. The
exposure areas are:
à Cordillera – Indigenous Women
à National Capital Region (Manila) - Urban Poor , GABRIELA Women’s
Party
à National Capital Region (Manila) - Women Workers, The Center for
Displaced Women Workers
à National Capital Region (Manila) - GABRIELA Youth
à Bacolod - Sugar Workers
à Davao - Moro Women
à Iloilo - Peasant Women
The exposure will be capped by a sharing of the results of the WISAP
exposure and discussions on the international, national and women
situation.
The WISAP conference proper will include workshops on:
1. Poverty and Working Women deals with the responses of working
women – workers, urban poor and peasantsto globalization and
corporate schemes to expropriate women’s expertise and skills.
Women workers’ fight against flexible labor schemes in the service and
industrial sectors. Rural women’s struggles after conversion of their land
into corporate farms or farms for cash crops. Struggles of women
professionals forced to take on overseas work as domestic helpers,
caregivers or entertainers. These are among the topics for discussion
in this workshop.
2. Women and Culture is about strategies of women to counter the
negative impact of the corporate culture, like consumerism and
commoditization of women’s bodies, on women and their children.
Actions taken by women against ethnocide whether this is due to wars or
genetic testing and the devaluation of women’s powers in traditional
medicine will be covered.
3. Women and Politics focuses on the strategies of women political
parties, women’s organizations and movements to obtain a greater
influence and role in governance and thus impact on national policies.
4. Women and War concentrates on women’s responses and actions
as the U.S. led “War against Terror” brings war, civil strife and violence
to their very doorstep. How do they fend off violence against women
(VAWC)? How do they protect their children? How do they help their
families survive the ravages of war? These are among the questions for
discussion.
5. Women and Environment is about how women are fighting
globalization policies that are causing the massive destruction of the
environment in the name of “development”. Also to be shared are
accounts of women’s actions in connection with lethal experiments by
big transnational corporations with food and other consumer products
used daily by their families.
6. Violence Against Women highlights the ways by which women
continuously challenge the government and society’s commitment to
eradicate Violence Against Women (VAW) while they try to defend
themselves against threats to their lives and well-being. The context of
discussions in this workshop is the privatization of social services, a
policy being implemented under globalization.
7. Women and Migration talks about strategies employed by women
who after being pushed out of the country by governments who could not
give them jobs find themselves without rights and/or protection in other
countries. This will not be about simple stories of survival but about how
women organize, mobilize and empower themselves to gain respect
and acknowledgement from the governments of their host countries.
More important are their stories on how they were able to organize and
mobilize and in the process gain the respect even of foreign
governments.
We are inviting you to send a delegation to the WISAP conference. We
will also welcome your recommendation for resource speaker/s. The
registration fee is US$350, transportation to exposure areas not
included. Delegates are requested to pay for their own airfare/bus fare
to the exposure areas.
If you are interested please return the accomplished forms preferably by
fax (632-3744423) or email <
internationalrelations at gabrielaphilippines.org> on before February 28,
2007 addressed to:
Emily Cahilog, Coordinator
TF WISAP, WISAP 2007
35 Scout Delgado St., Roxas District
Quezon City
We hope to see you at the conference.
Sincerely yours
Emerenciana de Jesus
Secretary General
Rep. Liza Largoza-Maza
National Vice-Chairperson
GABRIELA Philippines
The 10th WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY AFFAIR IN THE
PHILIPPINES (WISAP 2007)
Registration form
Theme: “The Women’s Vision: Strategies and Tactics of Women’s
Resistance’
____ Yes, I will be joining you.
Participant’s Information Form:
Personal Data:
a) Full Name:
b) Address/Contact Information:
c) Occupation/Profession:
d) Language(s) Spoken:
Organization/Institution:
a) Name of Organization:
b) Position in the organization/ About what you do in the organization;
c) Organizational Address/Contact Information
d) About your Organization:
e) Length of involvement:
f) Other involvements
Conference Needs:
a) Dietary Restrictions (please specify)_____________________ (ie:
no meat, no fish, no garlic, etc)
b) Other Health/Medical needs
_______________________________________________________
Conference Contribution:
a) I will be willing to help in the __________ (ie: translation, facilitation,
video/photo documentation)
How do you plan to attend WISAP
a) I will attend the entire WISAP Program (Recommended)
b) I will attend the conference proper only.
What is your particular interest in WISAP?
What exposure area do you want to visit: (please write numbers 1-5, with
1 as top priority. ( First come, first serve basis)
_____ Cordillera – Indigenous Women
_____ National Capital Region (Metro Manila) - Urban Poor ,
GABRIELA Women’s Party
_____ National Capital Region (Metro Manila) - The Center for
Displaced Women Workers
_____ National Capital Region (Metro Manila) - GABRIELA Youth
_____ Bacolod - Sugar Workers
_____ Davao - Moro Women
_____ Iloilo - Peasant Women
What workshop are you interested in joining? (First come, first served
basis so please indicate your top three priorities)
_____ Poverty and the Working Women
_____ Women and Culture
_____ Women and Politics
_____ Women and War
_____ Women and Environment
_____ Violence Against Women
_____ Women and Migration
What learning outputs are you expecting from WISAP
Have you or your organization attended past WISAP? What year(s)?
Please state if you have special visa requirements necessitating the
assistance of the Task Force WISAP
I am enclosing/depositing my check of US$350 for conference
registration.
_____ I am willing to pay for my bus fare/airfare to the exposure area,
please e-mail me the cost.
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