Muslims comprise a significant proportion of women in the Asia Pacific region yet their issues have been treated distinctly and marginally within trans-regional feminist networking in Asia Pacific. Ten years after Beijing, we find everywhere the villification of Islam and Muslims as the hegemonic and fundamentalist agenda of neo-liberalism and global war becomes entrenched.

On the other hand, nationalist political posturing, party politics and social resistances against imperialism and war have also carried socio-ethical ideas privileging certain ethnic, religious, cultural, or sexual identities that divide women and exclude some women (and men). What are the perspectives of Asian women in Muslim societies on these issues? What varied struggles are they waging nationally, regionally and internationally? How have the transnational women's movements affirmed/not affirmed their perspectives and struggles?

To many, Beijing signifies a high point in women's networking and the celebration of inter/trans-national women's movements. Ten years after Beijing, there are criticisms that the women's movements and feminists have become de-politicized, co-opted by the multilaterals and governments, or isolated from other progressive movements. Sharpened differences and contradictions have brought to the fore women's multiple and layered identities leading, it is claimed, to a fragmentation of women's movements into several often disconnected networks. Have the women's movements lost their progressive politics and radical critique? What are current strategies and tactics in trans-national feminist / women's movements organizing?

The role of the market in development has gained significant grounds since Beijing, overturning global expectations raised by the 1990's conferences. Many NGOs, and women's groups in particular criticize new international frameworks for development for drastically limiting the targets related to women's rights, equality and development that have been won in the Vienna, Cairo and Beijing conferences. Women NGOs and other civil society organizations have raised serious concerns about the lack of reform in global governance structures and processes that lay at the root of chronic poverty among women and men. They have also raised their voices against the insecurity arising from war. How can the women's movements face the threats of global marketization and managerialism? How useful is the rights-based approach in addressing these trends in global governance? What imperatives do we see in the achievement of sustainable development for all?

• The Rise of Neo-Conservatism and the Macro Context of Poverty Reduction and Women's Rights, Conducted by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
• New Poor in East Asian Industrializing Economies, Conducted by East Asian Women's Forum (EAWF)
• Assessing Strategies on Alleviating Rural-Urban Poverty Using a Gender Lens (Philippines and Thailand), Conducted by Women's Institute for Sustainable Economic Action (WISE ACT) & Women's Action and Resource Initiative (WARI)
• Micro-credit and Policy Reduction Strategy Papers (RSPs) in Asia: Poverty Alleviation or Promoting Consumerism, Conducted by National Alliance of Women's Organizations (NAWO)
• The Position and Poverty of Older Women: Issues and Policy Challenges in the Asia Pacific Context, Conducted by TSAO Foundation & HelpAge International

• Women's Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Conducted by the Alliance of Women's Colleges and Universities in Asia (AWCUA)
• Youth Sexuality in School Systems: A Research Sharing, Conducted by the Women And Gender Institute (WAGI)
• Achievements and Controversies of Taiwanese Women's Movement, 1995-2004, Conducted by Taiwanese Feminist Scholars' Association
• Education and Child Rearing Practices: The Role of Men and Boys in Promoting Gender Equity, Conducted by Thai Women Watch

• What Accounts for Little Progress in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity, Including Safe Abortion? Conducted by the Asia Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW), Center for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA), &Academy of Nursing Studies-India
• Looking at Beijing through the Eyes of Young People, Conducted by ARROW and Network of Asia Pacific Youth (NAPY)
• Issues of Affordability and Accessibility of Health Care for Women: Impact of Health Sector Reform, Conducted by Asia Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women (ARROW), Linangan ng Kababaihan (LIKHAAN), Coordinating Team of the Initiative for SRR in Health Reform

• Current Issues and Challenges in Crisis Intervention Work on VAW, Conducted by Women's Crisis Center-Philippines
• End Violence Against Women: Taking Stock of the Gains and Remaining Challenges and Mapping Future Strategies, Conducted by Amnesty International & Asia Pacific Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
• New Trafficking Trends and Ground-Breaking Interventions, Conducted by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)
• Violence Against Women in Central Asia, Conducted by Central Asian Forum of Women NGOs & Forum of Women NGOs- Kyrgyzstan
• Challenging Violence Against Women: A Forum on International Campaigns Against VAW, Conducted by Akshara Resource Center
  

• Remedies for the Survivors-Victims of Violence Against Women in Situations of Armed Conflicts, Conducted by Asia-Japan Women's Resource Center
• Refugee and IDPs and the Failure of International Protection, Conducted by Asian Women's Human Rights Council (AWHRC)
• Organized Violence Against Women by State and Non-State Actors, Conducted by Australian Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW)
• Security and Livelihood Issues Faced by Women in Armed Conflict, Conducted by Committee on Asian Women (CAW)
• Gender Issues in Post Conflict Situation, Conducted by Mindanao Commission for Women

• Women in the Informal Economy (Thailand and India), Conducted by Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women (GAATW), Committee on Asian Women (CAW) & United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Crisis of Women Workers: Trends in the Informal Economy in Asia, Conducted by GAATW, CAW & UNIFEM
• Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia, Conducted by UNIFEM
• Women, World Social Forum and the Search for Alternatives to Neoliberal Globalization, Conducted by International Gender and Trade Network- Asia (IGTN-Asia), WSF Network- Japan & International South Group Network (ISGN)- Women and Globalization Program
• World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action's (WABA) Review of Work Progress: Support for Breastfeeding Among Working Mothers and International Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes, Conducted by World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
• Moving the Paradigm from Anti-Trafficking to Migration Rights, Conducted by Foundation for Women & Asian Women's Human Rights Council

• Affirmative Action for Women's Quotas to Increase Women's Participation in Politics and Decision-Making, Conducted by the Association for the Promotion of the Status of Women (APSW) & Gender and Development Research Institute (GDRI)
• Strategies to Increase Women in Politics - What worked? What didn't Work?, Conducted by the National Alliance of Women's Organizations (NAWO) & Korea WNGO Network
• Case Studies of Women in Power - What impact have they had?, Conducted by NAWO & South Asia Women's Watch (SAWW)
• Organizing Women's Movements: Grassroots Experience, Conducted by National Coalition for Beijing Plus- Bangladesh
  

• How Effective are National Machineries?, Conducted by Japan Women's Watch (JAWW) and South Asia Women's Watch (SAWW)
• Sharing Experiences in the Region on the Functioning of National Machineries, Conducted by JAWW and SAWW
• Making Governance Gender Responsive: Gender Budgeting, Conducted by JAWW and SAWW

• Women Human Rights Defenders, Conducted by APWLD & Amnesty International
• Good Practices in Advancing Women's Human Rights, Conducted by GAATW

• Section J Revisited: New Feminist Perspectives on the Interlinkages of Media and ICTs with Economic Globalisation, Fundamentalisms and Militarism, Conducted by Isis International-Manila
• Women Media Practitioners, Conducted by Iranian NGO-Training Center (NGO-TC)
• Global Media Monitoring Project, Conducted by Asian Network of Women in Communication (ANWIC)
• Gender and ICT Policy Advocacy Workshop: Implications for the Women's Movement, Conducted by Association for Progressive Communications- Women's Networking Support Programme (APC-WNSP)
  

• Women and the Environment: Review of Implementation and Its Challenges, Conducted by Kitakyushu Forum on Women (KFAW), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) & North East Asian Environment Network (NEAVEN)
• Women and Food Sovereignty, Conducted by Asia Pacific Women, Law and Development (APWLD)

• Girls and Media in the Mekong Sub-Region, Conducted by the Foundation for Child Development
  

• Ensuring Young People's Meaningful Participation And Incorporating Their Perspectives in the Cairo and Beijing ++ Processess, Conducted by the Network of Asia Pacific Youth (NAPY)
• Smart Women: Brain and Beauty, Conducted by Thai Women Watch
• NGO-GO Collaboration for Women's Economic Empowerment in the ASEAN, Conducted by ASEAN Confederation of Women's Organizations (ACWO) & National Council of Women in the Philippines (NCWP)