IAFFE Conference in Bangkok
by - 13.07.2007 16:01
2007 IAFFE Conference on Feminist Economics, Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.iaffe.org/conferences/annual/index.php
participants from Houston: http://houston.indymedia.org/print.php?id=59305
03 Jul 2007
Four Houstonians, including myself, have traveled to Bangkok and are participating in the IAFFE conference in connection with our work at the editorial offices of the journal Feminist Economics, which is based at Rice University.
At the opening plenary, the speakers were Dr. Juree Vichitvathakran of the National Institute of Development Administration in Bangkok, Naiyana Supapung of the National Human Rights Commission in Thailand, Jean D’Cunha of the UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia Regional Office, and Jackie Pollock, the Director of the MAP Foundation for the Health and Knowledge of Ethnic Labour, Chiang Mai... D’Cunha spoke about migrant workers in Southeast region, many of whom are domestic workers. She spoke about the situations of women who clean houses and take care of children. Jackie Pollock spoke about Burmese migrants to Thailand. She started her talk with a story of a migrant worker who came to her office asking for help. Her employer had not paid her for three years.
This is the first report in what I hope will be a series on the 2007 IAFFE conference.
full story with photos: http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2007/06/59305.php
Four Houstonians, including myself, have traveled to Bangkok and are participating in the IAFFE conference in connection with our work at the editorial offices of the journal Feminist Economics, which is based at Rice University.
At the opening plenary, the speakers were Dr. Juree Vichitvathakran of the National Institute of Development Administration in Bangkok, Naiyana Supapung of the National Human Rights Commission in Thailand, Jean D’Cunha of the UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia Regional Office, and Jackie Pollock, the Director of the MAP Foundation for the Health and Knowledge of Ethnic Labour, Chiang Mai... D’Cunha spoke about migrant workers in Southeast region, many of whom are domestic workers. She spoke about the situations of women who clean houses and take care of children. Jackie Pollock spoke about Burmese migrants to Thailand. She started her talk with a story of a migrant worker who came to her office asking for help. Her employer had not paid her for three years.
This is the first report in what I hope will be a series on the 2007 IAFFE conference.
full story with photos:
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2007/06/59305.php