The over-all theme of the 2008 Asian Rural Women's Conference is Rights, Empowerment and Liberation. Under the main theme are focal themes based on issues, experiences and perspectives of rural and indigenous women in Asia. Under each theme are briefing papers that can be used as points for debate and discussion. The intention is that the working documents will continue to be refined with the aim of consolidating local and national situations, building upon the experiences, lessons, and aspirations of rural women's movements and other formations.

Under each theme are briefing papers that can be used as points for debate and discussion. The intention is that the working documents will continue to be refined with the aim of consolidating local and national situations, building upon the experiences, lessons, and aspirations of rural women's movements and other formations.

All papers are organised in themes.

• Rural Women in the Era of Globalisation
  • Rural Women in the Era of Globalisation
    Prepared by Sarojeni Rengam
    Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP)

• Women workers - Labour and Trade
  • Women workers - Labour and Trade
    Prepared by Lucia Victor Jayaseelan and Stephanie Bastian
    Committee for Asian Women (CAW)

• Migration, Displacement and Trafficking
  • Labor & Migrations: Displacement and Internal migration of Rural Women
    Prepared by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
  • Imperialist Globalization, Collapse of the Rural Economy and Forced Migration
    Prepared by Irene Fernandez
    TENAGANITA

• Land, Livelihood and Resources
  • Land, Livelihood and Access to Resources
    Prepared by Fatima Burnad
    Tamil Nadu Women's Forum (TNWF)
  • Women's Access to Food and Land Rights
    Prepared by Sabitra Bhusal
    All Nepal Women's Association (ANWA)

• Women's Health
  • Rural Women's Health in Asia: Health Status and Barriers to Access
    Prepared by Michelle Rogers
    Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
  • Study on the Right to Health of Plantation Women in Sri Lanka
    Prepared by P. Logeswary & Bastien Fillon
    Human Development Organization (HDO)

• Indigenous Women
  • Indigenous Women in Asia
    Prepared by Vernie Yocogan-Diano
    Innabuyog

• State Terrorism and Militarisation
  • Militarization and Rural Women in the Era of the U.S. "Global War on Terror"
    Prepared by GABRIELA National Alliance of Women's Organizations

• Disempowerment of Women
  • Process of Disempowerment
    Prepared by Irene Fernandez
    TENAGANITA

• Women's Movement in Asia