Women face many barriers to political participation in conflict zones across South Asia, including laws that perpetuate a culture of impunity and lack of justice for victims of violence and abuse by security forces.
Digital technologies have the power to transform and to offer developing country women opportunities to advance gender justice and equality.
In South Asia, people's social, political and cultural aspirations often get articulated as movements for territorially defined political change.
Each year about 350 000 Indonesian women go abroad to work. These are the official statistics, but the actual figure is probably much higher.
The Philippines is one of the leading sources of migrant workers in the world. In 2007, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas reported the estimated number at 8 727 520. Last year 146 337 women were newly hired, 30% of them as domestic workers.
In the Arab world, gender inequality in the labour market persists through occupational segregation, wage gaps, higher unemployment rates, over-representation in the informal economy, inadequate social protection and economic insecurity.
Women's movements in India are struggling to address problems arising from rapidly changing social relations and vulnerabilities associated with, among other things, the phenomenon of migration.
Burmese women workers in Thai border factories are generally excluded from the benefits and protection that define citizenship entitlements. Their employment contracts are not protected by the regulations drawn up for national workers.