Year: 2026
ASEAN empowers women and children, strengthen leadership and participation
Year: 2026
BOHOL, 12 November 2025 – Empowering women and children by strengthening their leadership in upholding their rights is central to shaping an inclusive ASEAN Community beyond 2025. This commitment was strongly reaffirmed at the 31st Meeting of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC). The ACWC commended […]
ASEAN advances promotion, protection of women and children’s rights in ASEAN Community Post-2025
Year: 2026
JAKARTA, 22 APRIL 2025 – Upholding women’s rights and children’s rights is key towards achieving the ASEAN Community Vision 2045, which aims to leave no one behind. At the 30th ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) meeting convened at the ASEAN Secretariat/Headquarters, the ACWC Representatives reaffirmed their […]
Declaration on the Elimination of Bullying of Children in ASEAN
WE, the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), namely Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet […]
ASEAN Regional Study on Women, Peace and Security
ASEAN is committed to achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Recognising that women are agents of change and catalysts to sustain peace, foster prosperity and safeguard social cohesion, strengthening effective mechanisms to promote this agenda becomes an increasingly important task. This goal is also in line with the region’s vision […]
ASEAN Guidelines for Addressing Child and Forced Marriage within the Context of TIP
Extreme poverty, climate change, disasters, misuse of technology, gender stereotypes and harmful practices heighten the risk of women and children being trafficked, including for the purpose of child and forced marriage. The ASEAN Gender Outlook published in 2022 noted that while child marriage rates in the region are among the lowest in the world, approximately […]
Final Report: Research and Development for the Society Regional Dialogue Supporting Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Climate Action Planning – Mekong for the Future
Asian is home to more than half of the world’s population and is the planet’s most dynamic and fastest- growing region (USAID, 2022). However, the Greater Mekong (GM) Region is also increasingly exposed to environmental shocks and stressors, in particular climate-induced water vulnerability, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Parry et al., 2007; […]