The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality conducted its fourth annual Regional Institute, titled, Sexuality, Society, and Culture, from May 21 - May 28, 2007 in Beijing, China. The Institute hosted 22 participants from thirteen countries in South and Southeast Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, The Philippines and Vietnam.

Participants

Adnan Hossain
Advancing Public Interest Trust (APIT)
Bangladesh

Cristina M. Cristobal
Lesbian Advocates Philippines
(LeAP), Inc
Philippines

Daniel Kian Seng Tung
Oogachaga Counseling and Support
Singapore

Donya Aziz
Ministry of Population Welfare
Government of Pakistan
Pakistan

Germaine Trittle Pe Benito Leonin
Rainbow Rights Project, Inc.
Philippines

Haitao Huang
Sex/Gender Education Forum
Sun Yat-sen University
China

Janette Maria Sunita
TARSHI
India

Jayamalar Samuel
Women's Centre for Change (WCC)
Malaysia

Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala
Women and Media Collective
Sri Lanka

Kimrun Mao
Men's Health Cambodia
Cambodia

Long Thanh Vu
Institute for Social Development Studies
Vietnam

Minn Thu
UNAIDS Myanmar
Myanmar

Nehama Kasmira Jayewardene
Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Sri Lanka

Qadeer Baig
World Population Foundation
Pakistan

Ritu Mathur
CREA
India

Saifuddin Zuhri
Center for Religion and Sexuality (CEFORS)
Indonesia

Sasi Bhusan Gurung
Cruiseaids-Nepal
Nepal

Siti Yunia Mazdafiah
Gender and Health Study Club (GHSC)
Indonesia

Victoria Sundari Handoko
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Indonesia

Wah Wah Myint
Save the Children in Myanmar
Myanmar

Xavier Wang
Action for AIDS and Oogachaga
Singapore 208263

Zhonghua Ding
Department of Maternal and Child Health
Fudan University
China

Faculty 

Radhika Chandiramani is founded TARSHI. A clinical psychologist, she works and writes on issues of sexuality, focusing on young people, sexuality education, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. 

Joy Liddicoat has worked for sixteen years as a lawyer across the public, private and community sectors. Specialising in human rights law, with particular emphasis on violence against women and children, she is also an expert in constitutional and public law. Community participation includes working with community law centres, women’s organisations (including the National Council of Women, YWCA and women’s refuges), and lesbian and gay organisations. 

Nivedita Menon, Ph.D., teaches Political Science at Delhi University. She works on issues relating to gender and politics and has published extensively. She is also active in citizen’s initiatives in Delhi around issues of democratic rights, peace and secularism.

Pramada Menon is Director Programs, CREA. She works as trainer, implementer and administrator and her work over the years has focused on issues related to livelihoods, gender and development, violence against women, sexuality and reproductive health. She also was Executive Director of Dastkar, an organization working to ensure sustainable livelihoods for traditional craftspeople in India.

Geetanjali Misra is Executive Director, CREA, New Delhi. She has worked intensively at the activist, grant making and policy levels in the fields of sexuality, reproductive health and violence against women. She is also the co-founder of SAKHI for South Asian women in New York.

Vahida Nainar is Chair for the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice and has advocated extensively for women’s rights in India. She founded and directed the Women’s Research and Action Group in Bombay where she coordinated a nation-wide research project on how social norms and legal rules affect women. Ms. Nainar also worked as the Indian liaison for the International Solidarity Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws where, among other activities, she campaigned internationally for support and solidarity in cases of individual women.

Dede Oetomo is a founding member and a senior expert in the Research and Education Division of GAYa Nusantara Foundation, Surabaya, Indonesia. GAYa Nusantara is a community-based organization working on issues of diversity in sex, gender, and sexuality. 

Douglas Sanders, Professor Douglas Sanders - Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia; LL.M. Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Professor Sanders has taught international human rights law, has been commissioned to prepare expert background papers for UN human rights seminars, and written extensively on human rights issues relating to indigenous peoples and sexual and gender minorities. He can be contacted at sanders_gwb@yahoo.ca. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand. 

Meena Seshu is one of India's most compelling and creative human rights and AIDS activists. She is the general secretary of SANGRAM, an organization that works to build the capacity of sex workers; negotiate condom use with their clients, and creates spaces within which these groups can assert and defend their rights. She also works tirelessly with people living with HIV-AIDS. In 2002, Meena was awarded the Human Rights Defender Award from Human Rights Watch in recognition of her outstanding work.

Special Lecture by:

Shohini Ghosh is Reader at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and is a documentary filmmaker who co-founded Mediastorm Collective, India's first all women documentary production collective.