Standing Committee on the Status of Women

The Executive Committee established the Standing Committee on the Status of Women in order to give special emphasis to the status of women and enhance participation of women parliamentarians. This Standing Committee serves to advise the AFPPD on parliamentarians' activities on the status of women, gender equality and equity, and Elimination of Violence against Women. Senator Claire Moore of Australia is the current Chair of this committee (2008-2011).

Standing Committee on Population and Food Security

AFPPD places high importance to the interrelationship between population and various socio-economic issues specially food security. This is to highlight the fact that unless population growth is addressed, it will be virtually impossible to tackle the issues of food security and its interrelations with water resources, poverty, environment, and climate change; therefore, AFPPD decided to form its Standing Committee on Population and Food Security in 2002. Current chair is Hon. Mr. Chiaki Takahashi, MP from Japan.

Standing Committee on Male involvement in EVAW

As a result of Regional Parliamentarians workshop on Male involvement in Elimination of Violence Against Women in 2009 in Bangkok and to pursue the issue further, a Standing Committee was constituted under the Chairmanship of, Dr. Puka Temu, the Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. The Standing Committee met again in Port Macquerie, Australia on 18th December 2010 and elected Dr. Nicar Shihab, Member of Parliament of Indonesia as the Chairperson of the Standing Committee.