About BEBESEA
BEBESEA (Better Engagement Between East and Southeast Asia) is a cross-regional advocacy platform, facilitating multistakeholder collaborations to address human rights violations and abuses across borders in East and Southeast Asia.
What We Envision
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What We Envision *
We seek “a society where everyone is valued as who they are.”
How We Work
Strengthening multi-stakeholder coalitions with an intersectional approach to drive systemic changes and;
Building grassroots capacity for multi-layered advocacy with the key principles of participatory, bottom-up, and solidarity building.
With a current focus on migration and modern slavery, our mission is to create an enabling environment for :
We achieve our goals through four strategic actions
Collective knowledge building and action-oriented research
Awareness-raising through multi-media production and story-telling
Policy engagement for systemic changes
Strategic organisational operation and development
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).