The human rights-based approach (HRBA) is both a vision and a set of tools. The HRBA vision is a precondition to developing strategies and objectives to be achieved and it can also trigger innovative solutions to ¡®old¡¯ problems. Developing the appropriate tools for implementing this vision is the challenge practitioners are now facing.....
  The United Nations announced in 1997 that it would mainstream human rights within the UN system and its activities, and the Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) has become popular for the last ten years as well. However, HRBA is not well known or actively practiced by Asian NGOs yet. Because of this, in 2003, the South East Asia Regional Office .....
 

For this issue, BASPIA interviewed Ms. Maria Fides F. Bagasao, Coordinator of Leaders and Organizers of Community Organization in Asia (LOCOA). As LOCOA moved its office from Manila to Seoul last November, we could meet her at LOCOA office in Seoul. Ms. Bagasao has been working in the field of Community
Organizing (CO) for about
30 years working with various
organizations mainly in the
Philippines. Through this
interview article written
by Ms. Bagasao herself.....

  
 

The first interview at Oasis is with Ms. Wang Yi, who is currently Secretary General of Women¡¯s Watch-China, a NGO based in Beijing. With a broad academic background in law and political science, Ms. Yi has worked as a legal aid worker and women¡¯s rights advocate in various locations around
the world. Many people might think
NGO activities are severely
restricted in China. In this first
edition of the webzine, Ms. Yi
shares with BASPIA her
experiences and activities
at Women¡¯s Watch-China.....