About BEBESEA
BEBESEA is a network and platform of organisations and individuals advocating intersectional human rights in the context of people’s movements across East and Southeast Asia.
Our Journey
In 2018, several civil society practitioners in East and Southeast Asia began to work together to build and strengthen a cross-regional network for collective knowledge-building and advocacy on human rights that intersect with migration and displacement in the region. This reflected the increasing number of people migrating between countries in the region, while the rights protection of migrants and refugees seem to be often left behind in the national and economic interest-driven policies. Through co-working of a number of civil society actors across the region, including a workshop that gathered over 30 practitioners in Bangkok in 2019 to discuss and explore this cross-regional movement building, many like-minded actors came together to develop this idea into the establishment of BEBESEA (Better Engagement Between East and Southeast Asia).
This joint initiative has now transformed into a collective movement that bridges and builds cooperation and solidarity among multi-stakeholders in East and Southeast Asia - regions that are so interconnected.
BEBESEA Secretariat was set up in 2020 and has been hosted by Indonesia’s NGO Coalition for International Human Rights Advocacy or Human Rights Working Group (HRWG).
What We Envision
We seek “a society where everyone is valued as who they are.”
BEBESEA works to become;
a community for mobilising and building civil society's intersectional solidarity;
a safe platform for like-minded multi-stakeholders to connect, co-learn and collaborate to realise people’s aspirations for East and Southeast Asia.
Our Key Principles
Meaningful participation of affected communities (i.e. migrants) - experiences and knowledge to be bridged and translated into policy dialogues;
Enhancing capacity of grass-roots organisations and affected communities on policy advocacy using international framework:
Multi-stakeholder engagement - solidarity building with supporters and allies in the sectors such as businesses, media, government, academia, influencer and campaigners concerning other social issues.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.