ACT joint the “3rd ASEAN Women Leaders’ Submit” in Vientiane, Laos from 21-22 August 2024 supported by The Asia Foundation. It was nice experience to listen to many great women leaders around the world shared their work relate to the care women economy which is the main challenges for Cambodia and the global issues that ACT noted it was not fully cover much transparency and accountably to reach inclusive peace in the communities yet, especially on women care economic.

As one of representative from the civil society organization who working on peacebuilding, ACT wants to see all relate sectors especially the government takes action in to account and apply in practice with highly responsible and accountable for the communities. what ACT could contribute to such peacebuilding is to continue our capacity building to strengthen communities leadership development, especially indigenous women and young people to be leader and able to active participate in their communities development work and what we can all help is to join monitor the process, raise voice from communities to be heard, and advocate via other mechanism implementation plan of action on Gender, Peace and Security.

This doesn’t mean ACT is the watch dog of the government on the ASEAN state, but what ACT just wants to see is the commitment of the government and the citizen are being taken action together to bring communities to positive peace. So ACT passion – looking to empower and building more capacity of the communities’ profession, leadership of women, peace and security agenda in the work. In this 3rd ASEAN Women Leader, ACT want to know if our respective governments or the ASEAN government are doing what they had promised to do to make sure that women are protected from conflict and also traditional and nontraditional threats to peace and security. ACT wants to make sure women and men are participating meaningfully in peace processes, not just meaningfully but actively and fully action taken out to make sure women also participate in the movement of poverty among many other things. With ACT participated, we hope able to inspire respective government more to implement their action to fulfill Women, Peace and Security in Cambodia and ASEAN.

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