2021

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  • Defending Freedom of Expression:
    Fake News Laws in East and Southeast Asia Report Launch

    February 21 | 14:00 – 15:30 (Bangkok) / 15:00 – 16:30 (Manila/Taipei) | Webinar
    The online report launch presented the key findings and recommendations of the CALD Asia Centre joint baseline study on how governments across Asia have been using laws and policies to control freedom of expression. The report’s aim was to provide a policy toolbox of ideas to empower legislators, political party leaders, academics, civil-society activists, and
    journalists to protect such freedom.

 

  • Asian Women Education (AWE) for Transformative Leadership
    April 9-10 and April 16-17 | 09:00-12:00 (Manila/Taipei)| Webinar
    The four-day virtual training course, organized by the CALD Women’s Caucus, in cooperation with the Women and Gender Institute (WAGI) and the Southeast Asian Women’s Watch (SEAWWatch), brought together political and movement leaders to revive and strengthen women’s leadership at different levels within a feminist framework of analysis.

 

  • CALD Youth Political Academy 2021
    Tier 1: June 18, 19, 20 | 09:00-12:00 (Bangkok)
    Tier 2: June 24, 25 | 10:00 – 13:30 (Taipei)
    Tier 3: July 02, 03, 04 | 14:00-17:00 (Manila)
    Tier 4 and Graduation: July 08, 09, 10 | 14:00-17:00 (Manila) | Webinar
    The webinar gathered representatives of CALD member parties to discuss the troubling political and legal situation confronting political party leaders and members, human rights lawyers, and political activists, among others, in a number of Asian countries and jurisdictions.

 

  • CALD Smart City Meeting with Local Governments
    August 24 | 10:00-11:30 (Taipei) / 09:00-10:30 (Jakarta) | Webinar
    In partnership with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Nation Awakening Party (PKB), and with FNF support, CALD organized this project to provide technical support and recommendations to select cities in Taiwan and Indonesia to increase their pandemic-response mechanisms and achieve people-centered efforts.

 

  • CALD-Asia Centre Disinformation Workshop
    September 25 and October 2 | 9:00-12:00 (Bangkok) | Webinar
    CALD, in collaboration with Asia Centre and FNF, convened a two-day workshop as a followup to Asia Centre and CALD’s baseline study, “Defending Freedom of Expression: Fake News Laws in East and Southeast Asia,” launched in February 2021.

 

  • Japan’s 2021 Elections: Issues, Challenges and Prospects
    October 26 | 15:00 – 16:30 (Tokyo) 14:00 – 15:30 (Manila) / 13:00 – 14:30 (Bangkok) | Webinar
    This webinar discussed the key issues, challenges, and prospects of Japan’s October 31 Lower House elections, as well as their international and regional implications. The webinar was organized with the support of FNF Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia.

 

  • 11th CALD Communications Workshop for CALD Women’s Caucus
    October 30-31 | 15:00 – 17:00 (Manila) | Webinar
    The 11th in CALD’s annual communication workshops for its member-parties, “reAWEkening: Reaching Across the Network” was meant to check how past participants had been doing during the pandemic and to reinforce networking strategies among CALD member-parties. This workshop was focused particularly on supporting and extending the CALD Women’s Caucus network, and strengthening the communication skills of the Caucus’s members.

 

  • High-Level Panel of CALD Annual Conference 2021
    December 1 | 16:00-18:00 (Manila) / 15:00-17:00 (Bangkok) / 9:00-11:00 (Stockholm) | Webinar
    The highlight of the CALD Annual Conference 2021, the December 1 webinar had a High-Level Panel tackling as its main question: “How can political parties survive, even thrive, in the ‘new normal’ brought about by the pandemic?”

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