(December 16, 2004/ Taipei, Taiwan) Ms. Huia-hui Hsieh, Director for International Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party; and, Ms. Andrea Yang, Program Officer of the Council of Asian Liberals & Democrats, attend today the two-day First Strategy Workshop of the World Forum on Democratization of Asia at the headquarters of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD).
Newly elected DPP parliamentarian and CALD Secretary General, Ms. Bi-Khim Hsiao and Singapore Democratic Party Secretary General, Dr. Chee Soon Juan were two of the speakers of the event.
The World Forum for the Democratization of Asia (WFDA) brings together individuals and organizations relevant to developing and evaluating democracy-building action plans. Beginning in July 2005, a Biennial Conference of key players in the region, both direct participants in the regional democracy movement as well as relevant international organizations and donors will be held.
Preceding each Biennial Conference, holding a series of Strategy Consultation Workshops to generate strategies to address key issues and formulate the goals that will be presented at the Biennial Conference. These workshops will invite select groups of participants who are familiar with each subject to study strategies and draft action plans aimed at bringing about reform in the affected countries. After the draft action plans are presented to the Biennial Conference, decisions will be made for support and action. The WFDA also functions as a regional headquarters of the World Movement for Democracy.
The theme of the first workshop is “Assisting Democratization in Asia’s Closed Societies” and focused on Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Tibet, Bhutan, China and North Korea. For more information, please visit the TFD website (http://www.tfd.org.tw).
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