08.30-09.00 a.m. Opening session

Opening statement delivered by Ms Keiko Okaido, Deputy Executive Secretary and Officer-in-Charge, a.i. of the UNESCAP Secretariat

Statement by United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Mr J.K. Robert England

Remarks by Ms. Yowvares Shinawatra, President, NCWT

09.00-9.15 a.m. Keynote Speech: “Women and HIV/AIDS”
Ms Kathleen Cravero, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS

09.15-09.30 a.m. Video of positive women’s testimonies

09.30-10.45 a.m. Panel Discussion: “Women and HIV/AIDS in Thailand”

Five Government, NGO and community representatives reflect on the situation of women living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand and beyond. Panelists include:
Senator Dr. Malinee Sukavejworakit, MD, Secretary General, AFPPD &
Chief Advisor of the Senate Standing Committee on Public Health
Mr. Chanyuth Kosirinond, Director, Office of Women's Affairs and
Family Institution, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security
Hon. Udomprachathorn, Monk, Phrabahtnampu Temple, Lopburi
Dr. Sriwanna Poolsappasidh, Deputy Director-General, Dept. of Mental
Health, Ministry of Public Health
Mrs. Somboon Suprasert, Advisor, HIV/AIDS Research Project, Thai Red
Cross

10.45-11.00 a.m. Choir performance by students from the Rajawithi Home for Girls

11.00 a.m. Exhibition, handicraft sale in UNCC 1st floor

12.00- 4.30 p.m. Film festival in UNCC Theater: Four films on women and gender issues in the UNESCAP region.

Maire 12:00-12:45

Maire Bopp Dupont, a 25-year old journalist from French Polynesia, has been actively working to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS among Pacific island communities. Her crusade started in December 1998 when, still a university journalism student in Fiji, she broke a taboo in her community by revealing that she was HIV-positive during a Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) conference in Tahiti. Following her graduation, Maire joined Tahiti's Radio Tefana as a journalist in May 1999. Five months later, she won PINA's Pacific Freedom of Information Award for her outstanding efforts in the promotion and defense of freedom of information and expression in the region. She has since been touring the islands to speak to communities, schools and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) about the epidemic. She is currently president of a Tahitian NGO that promotes HIV/AIDS awareness in French Polynesia. Maire is Maire’s account of learning she has AIDS, deciding to go public about her status, and dealing with other people’s reactions. It is also the stand of a courageous and powerful young woman who has dared to shatter the silence, challenges, myths and fears about HIV/AIDS. Duration: 40 Minutes

Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines 13:00-14:30

This documentary was chosen by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to premiere at the United Nations in October 2003 in a week-long anniversary celebration of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on “Women, Peace, and Security”. Today, ninety percent of all war casualties are civilians, the majority of whom are women and children. Yet, women around the world are joining together, standing up for peace, advocating restorative justice, healing their communities, and educating future generations that war is not the answer. Focusing on two women in each country in Afghanistan, Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burundi, and the United States, this breakthrough documentary shows intimate portraits and engaging accounts of women peace activists. This emotionally-charged feature provides an exclusive view of the world through the eyes of ten strong, determined, and compassionate women, who are transforming both their communities and themselves into a new culture of peace. Duration: 86 Minutes

Trading Women 14:30-15:30

Trading Women was produced by Director Dr. David Feingold, International Coordinator for HIV/AIDS and Trafficking at UNESCO Bangkok, and narrated by actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie. It examines the social, economic and political conditions that have led so many highland women into the sex trade. These conditions continue to destroy the traditional economies on which the upland communities once depended and to threaten the very existence of highland peoples and cultures. Filmed in Myanmar, China, Laos, Thailand, New York and Washington, D.C., Trading Women investigates the relationship of the opium trade to the trade in women as well as revealing the ethical self-justification of brothel and sex karaoke owners who have no qualms explaining their businesses. In addition, the film examines the role of an international community that often only sees highland people as colorful stereotypes with a set of values as different as their traditional dress, the underlying police corruption in both trafficking and the sex trade and the haunting emotional dilemmas of women who, simply seeking to feed and educate their children or merely hoping to survive, find that no choice offered to them is a good choice. Duration: 56 Minutes

National Geographic World Diary: Honor Killings 15:30-16:30

In many countries, women who "shame" their families may fall victim to honor killings. Correspondent Michael Davie takes us to meet an honor killing survivor and one of the few who successfully prosecuted the attacker—her husband. Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family "honor." It is difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honor justifies the act in the eyes of some societies. Reports submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights show that honor killings have occurred in several countries. In countries not submitting reports to the UN, the practice was condoned under the rule of the fundamentalist Taliban government in Afghanistan, and has been reported in other countries. Duration: 52 Minutes