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Regional Dialogue on Gender-Responsive Approaches to Address Trafficking in Persons for Forced Criminality: Applying a Women, Peace and Security Lens
UN Women organized this Regional Dialogue in partnership with the Government of Japan as part of a project that has been providing immediate support to survivors to mitigate and prevent the surge in trafficking in women and other cyber-enabled harms along this border area, by fully leveraging the WPS agenda.
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Start date: 24 March 2025 | Start time: 09:00 UTC +00:00
End date: 24 March 2025 | End time: 16:00 UTC +00:00
Location:
Bangkok, Thailand
Event description
Date: 24 March 2025
Time: 9:00 – 16:00 [GMT+7]
The gender dimensions of non-traditional security risks, including trafficking in persons, pose new challenges that require innovative responses and solutions. Such emerging issues are having significant adverse impacts on women’s rights, stability and security in South-East Asia.
This Regional Dialogue offered a unique opportunity to review gender-responsive interventions and women’s participation in addressing trafficking in persons for forced criminality and explore effective strategies and collaborative approaches to strengthen coordinated responses and innovative prevention efforts, guided by the global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda. The WPS agenda – for which UN Women is the global custodian within the UN system – identifies trafficking in women for forced criminality as a critical security concern, particularly in conflict and crisis-affected settings.
UN Women organized this Regional Dialogue in partnership with the Government of Japan as part of a project that has been providing immediate support to survivors to mitigate and prevent the surge in trafficking in women and other cyber-enabled harms along this border area, by fully leveraging the WPS agenda.
Altogether 60 regional and national stakeholders took part, including representatives of governments, civil society organizations, regional organizations, UN Women and other UN and international entities.
Key objectives
- Review gender-responsive interventions and women’s participation in addressing trafficking in persons for forced criminality along the Thailand-Myanmar border and in the region.
- Explore effective strategies and collaborative approaches to strengthen coordinated response and innovative prevention efforts.
- Promote the integration of the WPS Agenda in preventing and responding to emerging trafficking issues in the region.
Agenda
For more information about the Regional Dialogue, please contact:
Ms. Kanae Tanaka
Programme Coordinator - Governance, Peace and Security
UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
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