BEBESEA Monthly Newsletter #32 – January 2025 (14/01/2025)
BEBESEA Monthly Newsletter #32 – January 2025 (14/01/2025)
Happy new year! We’re excited to kick off this year’s BEBESEA newsletter with updates, insights, and opportunities to our valuable friends, colleagues and resource persons who have participated in and supported our activities.
What’s On!
The report on our event, “Cross-Regional Forum: Promoting Rights of People on the Move in East and Southeast Asia” has been published. Read more on our website!
News from BEBESEA:
Read: Responding the newly-published ASEAN Guidelines on the Placement and Protection of Migrant Fishers, Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) alongside International Organization of Migration (IOM) and Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) organized the Regional Workshop: Strengthening Collaborative Efforts to Prevent Labour Exploitation and Protect Migrant Fishers on 9-10 December 2024. Know more about the workshop and the outcome document on BEBESEA’s Instagram.
What’s on Our Social Media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn @bebeseaorg):
- BEBESEA Weekly Recaps continue to update you on the latest news relating to migration and human rights issues from East and Southeast Asia.
News from Our Network
Launch Event: Join an online event on the launch of the Global Statelessness Fund, a new initiative that aims to support organizations and activists engaged in rights-based work to address issues of statelessness and discriminatory nationality laws.
Community Empowerment: Learn more about the newly established “Rainbow Panda”, a community-driven not-for-profit arts & storytelling studio dedicated to the welfare of queer and trans children and teenagers across Asia.
Summaries and Articles: International Migrants Alliance (IMA) shared statements and articles through their recent posts touching upon issues on Seafarers’ Rights, Cheap Labor and Modern-day Slavery, and Education Trafficking. See more on IMA website.
If you have any resources or events you would like BEBESEA to share widely, please do get in touch with us through email or by filling out this form.
BEBESEA (Better Engagement Between East and Southeast Asia) is a cross-regional initiative to build a stronger network and collaborations among civil society organisations and individual actors in/from East and Southeast Asia to advocate for better protection of human rights and inclusive and safe governance of migration. The secretariat of BEBESEA is hosted by Human Rights Working Group Indonesia (HRWG). If you wish not to receive this newsletter, please let us know via info@bebeseaorg.com.