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The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) will organize an expert group meeting (EGM) in Bangkok from 13 to 15 May 2009. The EGM is in preparation for the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting, in October 2009, to review the implementation in the Asia-Pacific region of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and the outcome of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly (2000).
The objective of the expert group meeting is to formulate the conceptual and organizational framework for the October 2009 High-level Intergovernmental Meeting and identify key emerging, neglected and high priority issues that need attention in the context of this review. The outcome of the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting will be an input to the global review and appraisal of the implementation of the BPfA, to be carried out by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at its fifty-fourth session in 2010.
The three-day EGM will be organized and hosted by ESCAP in Bangkok in the United Nations Conference Centre.
Documents:
Discussion Papers and Presentations:
Structural Barriers, Cultural Constraints, Meso Traps & Other Challenges Women's Empowerment in Institutional Mechanisms and Power & Decision-Making: The Beijing Platform for Action 15 Years On (Ms. Farida Shaheed)
Gender, Water Security and Climate Change in Asia and Pacific (Ms. Sara Ahmed)
Recasting the Beijing Platform through the Information Society Lens- A Conceptual and Action Framework
paper (Ms. Anita Gurumurthy)
presentation (Ms. Anita Gurumurthy)
People's Communication for Development (Ms. Bianca Miglioretto)
Are Older Women in Southeast Asia more Vulnerable than Men?
paper (
Ms. Evi Nurvidya Arifin
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presentation (Ms. Evi Nurvidya Arifin)
Increase in non-Standard Employment and lack of Social Protection for Such Workers: the Persistent Gender Wage Gap in Japan (Ms.
Nobuko Nagase)
Emerging Issue: The gender perspectives of the financial crisis (Ms. Shamika Sirimanne)
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