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COORDINATED BY: YAYASAN GENDER HARMONY
www.genderempowerment.com ; www.genderharmony.info; genharmony@gmail.com
Secretariat:
Jl. Slamet Riyadi III/15,
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081215916335, 08161976847
BANDUNG DECLARATION
ON GENDER HARMONY 2012
On Friday, 13th July 2012 in Bandung City, Indonesia, we,
the participants and speakers of the 2012 International Conference on Gender
Empowerment, agreed to support gender empowerment against poverty towards
family welfare today and into the future. We realise that the significant
percentages of people with income below 1$/day affected are women, resulting in
higher percentages of women with HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria; and high percentages
of maternal mortality particularly in developing countries.
In order to create equity in family welfare (including
for women, men, children, the elderly, disabled, and the poor) gender empowerment
is needed through harmony between men and women. We realize that the harmony in family life, particularly among husband
and wife, may not always develop naturally, and therefore needs to be supported
by concrete actions and processes that reduce inequitable gender status and
enhance spirits with proper gender perception, creativity, togetherness, and
actions of the equal relations that results in a healthy lifestyle, free from poverty/hunger and domestic violence.
On behalf of organizations represented at the IC-GEm2012 and as individuals from 14 different economies and countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Bruneidarussalam, Bangladesh, Philippines, Australia, Yemen, France, Romania, Austria, India, Malawi and Ethiopia – who support the MDG achievements by 2015, and in particular MDG#3 on gender empowerment, we urge ministers and senior government officials, along with private sector and community leaders everywhere, to endorse the 2012 Bandung Declaration on Gender Harmony by adopting gender harmony approach to gender equality actions and measures that lead to gender empowerment and family welfare.
Actions are required on four key livelihood aspects,
namely economic, social, cultural, and political that impact women’s health and family welfare. We also
draw attention to the need for access to education and culture change as key
barriers for women’s empowerment and the need to shift patriarchy culture-based
practices to gender-inclusive practices in both public and private life. This
will have economic, social and cultural benefits for women, their families,
communities and regional economies. We encourage the empowerment of women to
remove discriminatory practices which inhibit women’s capacity and ability to
build their skills. We advocate gender empowerment in the family and in the
work place in order to create thriving communities, gender equality and more
agents of changes.
We
recognize the economic role as centrifugal action in family life with the power
of ICT (Information, communication and
Technology) for awareness rising and learning; accompanied by concrete
gender harmony practices in building coping mechanism, will create synergies
and collaboration between men and women towards family advancement that
integrates local wisdom with global connectivity and knowledge. We pledge to
continue to contribute to the movement of gender empowerment by using gender
harmony for a better world for women and men that incorporates equity in all
living and work aspects.
In
conclusion, this is a commitment among
participants and speakers of the ICGEm 2012 as the starting point to push
forward gender empowerment by advocating and implementing gender harmony
practices in our own environments and by bringing the genbder empowerment issue
to the attention of world wide forums, so disadvantaged people and in
particular women, may benefit. In turn this will help the reduction of poverty
and domestic violence and achieve family welfare.
Participants and Speakers from 14 Countries.
Under the coordination
of Gender Harmony Foundation (YGH)
In collaboration with:
The Ministry of Women
Empowerment and Child Protection RI
The Ministry of
Cooperation and Small Medium Enterprises RI
The Ministry of
The Ministry of
Communication and Information RI
The Ministry of
Internal Affairs,
UNFPA