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The Emerging Social Issues Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is organizing an expert group meeting on "Regional Strategies for Implementing the Recommendations from the Secretary-General’s Study on Violence against Women with Particular Emphasis on Harmful Traditional and Cultural Practices and the Role of National Machineries", to be held from 26 to 27 April 2007 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok.
It is expected that the meeting will recommend ways of strengthening normative socio-cultural, advocacy and legal frameworks inclusive of multi-sectoral and integrated approaches to prevent and respond to violence against women. The outcome of the meeting will provide members and associate members of ESCAP and its partners and their national machineries with recommended strategies and priority actions to for eliminating violence against women in a region-specific context.
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Discussion Papers and Presentations:
| Introduction and Overview of the Secretary-General's In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence against Women (Ms. Hei Soo Shin) |
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| A Regional Overview - Key Challenges and Successful Multi-sectoral Strategies in Combating Harmful Cultural and Traditional Practices of Violence against Women and Girls in the Asia Pacific Regional (Ms. Lynnsay Francis) |
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| Partnership with Men - the Eternal Tango. Successful Regional Strategies of Men Working to Eliminate Violence against Women (Mr. Michael Flood) |
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| Human Rights - based Approach of Advocacy to Eliminate Violence against Women (Ms. Evre Kaynak) |
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| Harmful Traditional Practices - Mobilizing Legal and Social Change - the Indian Experience (Ms. Ranjana Kumari) |
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| Traditional and Cultural Practices in the name of Religion that are Violence against Women - Successful Strategies to Eliminate them (Ms. Syed Majida Razvi) |
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| Social Mobilization, Raising Awareness and the Role of the Media in Advocacy (Ms. Bandana Rana) |
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| Successful Strategies to Eliminate Harmful Traditional and Cultural Practices of Violence against Women in Families Living According to Islamic Teachings (Ms. Zaitunah Subhan) |
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Background Papers:
| In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence against Women
(Report of the Secretary-General) |
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| 61/143. Intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
(Resolution adopted by the General Assembly) |
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| An Asia Pacific Regional Overview on Harmful Traditional and Cultural Practices related to Violence against Women and Successful Strategies to eliminate such Practices (Drawn from Reports of APWLD Asia Pacific NGO Consultations with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Special Rapporteur on Right to Adequate Housing (Prepared by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)) |
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| UN Documents Addressing Women's Human Rights and Culture (Prepared by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)) |
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| Negotiating Culture: Intersection of Culture and Violence against Women in Asia and Pacific (Publication by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)) |
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| Changing Men. Best practice in sexual violence education (Publication by Michael Flood) |
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| Men's Collective Struggles for Gender Justice: the Case of Antiviolence Activism (Publication by Michael Flood) |
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| Elimination of Violence against Women in Partnership with Men (Publication by UNESCAP, Gender and Development Section, Discussion Paper Series No. 15) |
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| Violence against Women in South Asia: Subregional overview, violence against women in Bangladesh (Publication by UNESCAP, Gender and Development Section, Discussion Paper Series No. 3) |
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| The Right to Decide If, When and Whom to Marry: Obigations of the state under CEDAW and other international human rights instruments (Publication by International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW). IWRAW Asia Pacific Occasional Paper Series No. 6) |
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| Short Profiles of Experts |
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