Regional Conference on Strengthening Understanding of the Impact of Gender Norms and Stereotypes on Violence Against Women in the Greater Mekong Sub Region

Daw NgaNgai  from Kuki Women’s Human Rights Organization was attended a region conference on strengthening understanding of the Impact of Gender Norms and stereotypes on violence against women in the Greater Mekong Sub Region hold on 9^th – 10^th  January 2019 in Vientian capital , Laos PDR . It was jointly organized by the  Commission for the Advancement of Women and Child Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism and Gender Development Association. In the conference,  Daw Ngangai talked about Impact of Gender Norms & gender in equality to the  reduction of gender based violence . She also pointed out that ethnic tradition practices are harmful to the right of indigenous women because  there are some ethnic traditional practices which discriminating and againsting the women rights ,CEDAW .

The other topics discussed in the conference are
1.Gender Norms Change and Sustainable Development Goals(SDG)
2. The impact Gender Norms and Gender equality to the reduction of gender based violence.
3. The role of media in gender based violence reduction and supporting gender norms change
4. The role of men in promoting positive gender norms change
5. The effects of GBV and harmful gender stereotypes on vulnerable groups within Lao PDR
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6. Media campaign development: Encouraging positive gender norms change and social norms change to impact GBV
7.Combating violence against women  promoting positive gender norms change within Ethnic communities
8.The Commission for the Advancement of Women and Child Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism and Gender Development Association

In the conference, some representatives from Laos PDR, Thailand, Myanmar,  Cambodia and Vietnam and more than 200 students from Vientian College also attended the conference.