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Name: Rafaela Mae David (Akbayan Youth - Philippines) Position: Vice President for the Asia Pacific Committee Mandate: 2014-2016 Manila City, Philippines, February, 2016 REPORT- IUSY WORLD CONGRESS 2016 - TIRANA, ALBANIA 1. Asia-Pacific Committee meeting: Green Governance: the urgent task of climate change mitigation and adaption Date and Place 18-21 December 2014 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Name of Activity Asia-Pacific Committee meeting: Green Governance: the urgent task of climate change mitigation and adaption With Side Activity: Press Conference calling for Justice for victims of the Pakistani School Massacre. Organized by International Union Socialist Youth - Asia Pacific Committee, in partnership with Democratic Action Party - Socialist Youth Content The IUSY-APC Meeting focused on the threat of climate change in Asia-Pacific and the need for Green Governance in achieving Climate Justice. As part of the program, the IUSY APC meeting participants had workshops on available Green Technologies that help in mitigating climate change as well as on available Disaster Response and Risk Reduction Management Plans and Policies within the region. The IUSY APC also conducted a press conference as a side activity during the APC Meeting calling for justice for the victims of the Pakistani School Massacre which happened just days before the APC Meeting. The media activity was covered by local media. 2. Asia-Pacific Committee meeting: A World Without Borders and Freedom for All Date and Place 3 – 6 December 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Name of Activity Asia-Pacific Committee Meeting: A World Without Borders and Freedom for All Side Activity: #ClimateChangeStories Press Conference and Online Campaign Organized by International Union Socialist Youth - Asia Pacific Committee, in partnership with YPD Thailand Content The IUSY APC Meeting focused on the topic “World without borders and Freedom for All”, a critical topic in the region where labor migration and human trafficking has led to various human rights abuses. Herein, there were workshops and sessions on: (1) Understanding Forced Migration/World without Borders, (2) Forced migration in APC member countries, and (3) Existing Interventions addressing forced migration. Facilitators from SSU also conducted a workshop on online and offline campaigning. The participants also visited an NGO helping victims of human trafficking. As part of the program, the IUSY APC also conducted a press conference on Climate Refugees --- an increasing phenomenon of forced migration brought about by climate change. This is done parallel the ongoing COP 21 in Paris. The participants also had an online campaign by putting up the #ClimateChangeStories facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ClimateChange-Stories-1550755018548057/?fref=ts). 3. IUSY World Festival: “15 Actions to Eradicate Poverty in 15 Years” Date and Place 20-26 August 2014 Name of Activity IUSY World Festival: “15 Actions to Eradicate Poverty in 15 Years” Organized by IUSY in partnership with the IUSY FZL MALTA Content There were various themes and activities, following the IUSY’s “15 Actions to Eradicate Poverty in 15 years”. As VP in Charge of the environment portfolio and the Asia and the Pacific, I facilitated the Main Conference on the ENVIRONMENT with the theme "Green Conversation for a Sustainable Development". I also facilitated the workshop tents on the topics: “Democracy in Thailand” especially with the Martial Law being implemented presently in Thailand as well as the “Feminism Tent: Reproductive Rights in Asia” with reproductive and sexual rights in Asia remaining a taboo issue, hence leading to the persistence of child marriages, female genitalia mutilation, teenage pregnancy, among others. I also facilitated the Asia Pacific Committee Tent which convened the participants from the region and discussed persisting issues in the Asia and the Pacific. 4. Presidium Meetings Date and Place 2 March 2014, Denmark 16-18 May, 2014, Malta 19 August, Malta 25 November, 2015, Bogota, Colombia Name of Activity Presidium Meetings Organized by IUSY Content Participated in various presidium meetings, where the IUSY Presidium tackled various topics ranging from IUSY’s political portfolio and organizational development.