BEBESEA Joins APMM Regional Migrant Summit 2025
BEBESEA actively participated in the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants’ Regional Migrant Summit on June 20-21, 2025, in Quezon City, Philippines. This is also the day BEBESEA launched the Tagalog version of our Toolkit for Media Campaign for Migrants. The regional summit was participated in by several academics and migrant community leaders all over Asia, discussing the current trends of migration.
The summit covered various categories of thematic studies of migration. The themes were as follows: access to justice, access to health, education and all forms of social protection, women migrants’ rights and welfare, decent work, combating migrant and refugee trafficking, drivers of migration and advancing rights and realizing meaningful participation.
BEBESEA’s Ena Avila was invited to react on the “Advancing Rights and Realizing Meaningful Participation” panel, representing the organization. She addressed the common questions from the participants during the Q&A which were around ways to campaign for these studies to the public in a so that would be understood by people outside of academia and advocacy fields. She took note of this and added more information about the other challenges of creating a media campaign. She then presented the media toolkit which was created with the idea of giving back the confidence of the marginalized communities to tell their own stories through their own media campaigns.
BEBESEA also presented hard copies of the Tagalog toolkit at the display booth during the conference. We asked the community what’s holding them back when starting a media campaign. We see their issues of state surveillance, feeling shy or embarrassed, fear of backlash, lack of general apathy from the public and language barriers.
In January 2025, BEBESEA first launched the English version of the Media Campaign Toolkit, followed by the launch of the Bahasa Indonesia version in Jakarta, Indonesia, in March 2025.
We hope that the toolkit could help the migrant communities to start their toolkit. Special thanks to Takatak Feminist Printmakers, an affiliate of Empowerment Through Art from the Philippines, for their powerful prints at the booth.
About the Tagalog Toolkit
This Tagalog Media Campaign Toolkit was translated by Bituin Shimada from Kakehashi. She is a professional translator in Japan who has been working closely with Filipino migrants. It was printed at Morning Star Gensan.
Download the Tagalog toolkit here
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