WLN 2007 - Resource Materials

12th APEC Women Leaders Network Meeting Port  Douglas, Australia 25-27 June 2007

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OPENING CEREMONY

Welcome (PDF, 6KB)
Host of 2007 12th APEC Women Leaders Network Meeting
The Hon Julie Bishop MP (Australia)
Minister for Education, Science and Training
Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues

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Message from the Chair, 2007 APEC Women Leaders Network

 
Dear 2007 Australian WLN Delegates

I am pleased to advise that the proceedings of the 12th APEC Women Leaders Network (WLN) meeting have been published on the Australian Government Office for Women website at:  http://www.ofw.facsia.gov.au/apec_wln/presentation_summaries.htm.

The meeting proceedings will also be posted on the APEC Women Leaders Network website at: www.apecwln.org. We expect to add further presentation materials to the proceedings page in the next few weeks.

I would also like to let you know about the upcoming 13th APEC Women Leaders Network Meeting being held in Arequipa, Peru from 12th to 14th May 2008.  A number of Australian delegates are expected to attend the meeting. The theme for this year’s WLN meeting is "Successful Women, Successful Economies."

The meeting will be preceded by the Women in Export Trade Forum (11 May), and the Women in Digital Economy Forum (May 9-10).  Australian women are strongly encouraged to attend the 2008 meetings to contribute to the development of new ideas and advice on a range of high priority economic issues affecting women of the APEC region, and particularly women in business.

As this year’s APEC host, Peru is inviting delegates to this year’s meetings to register online at  http://www.mimdes.gob.pe/apec/ingles/inicio.html.

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2007 Meeting Chair provides update

On 14th November the Chair of the 12^th WLN Meeting, Ms Heather Ridout, released a letter to the delegates to this year’s meeting outlining actions that have been taken since June. In it, Ms Ridout indicated progress in several fronts:

• The WLN Reference Group, through Ms Alison Terry, made an invited presentation to the Meeting of the Ministers Responsible for Trade in Cairns on 7th July on the set of recommendations from this year’s Meeting.

• In September Ms Ridout herself did a similar presentation to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). Mr Geoff Brennan, Executive Director of the ABAC Secretariat, had previously spoken about the potential for links between ABAC and WLN.

• One of the key recommendations from this year’s Meeting revolved around the the trade liberalisation agenda. Peru has since indicated that this issue will be a key focus of next year’s meeting. A workshop will be conducted at the Meeting on the impact of free trade agreements on women in micro, small and medium enterprises.

• Ms Ridout wrote about WLN’s work in The Australian Financial Review, Australia’s principal business journal. In it, she explained the depth of WLN’s experience and thinking on key economic issues facing our region, such as climate change, sustainable trade and business practices. A copy of the article can be downloaded from here.

• It was proposed at the Meeting to undertake research on the nature and extent of any differential impacts on women of regional trade liberalisation and Free Trade Agreements within the APEC region. The Australian Government Office for Women, in consultation with the Australian WLN Reference Group, is mapping the scope of this research with the view of securing funding to progress the research and present the findings in Peru next year.

• In its role as 2007 Chair of the Gender Focal Point Network, the Australian Government Office for Women is liaising with th APEC Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Working Group on its work to develop a 4-year strategic plan that will include support for women, youth and minorities as a strategic priority.

• The Australian Government Office for Women website for the 2007 Meeting has been updated and now holds all the materials from this year’s meeting.

Ms Ridout’s letter is available for download from here.

WLN Statement 2007

12th APEC Women Leaders Network  
Recommendations to APEC Leaders and Ministers
Port Douglas, Australia, 24-27 June 2007

The Women Leaders Network (WLN) – over four hundred women leaders, representing business, government, academia and civil society – met to consider issues that are critical to building a sustainable future.  Issues were addressed through the core focus areas of globalisation, climate change, sustainable trade, technology and business practices, and strengthening the capacity of women entrepreneurs and their communities of interest.

 It is requested that the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade note the following decisions taken by the WLN, including future actions for Leaders, Ministers and the WLN.

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December 13, 2007 | Filed Under 2007 Meeting - Australia, Australia, WLN Statements

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