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Committee on Emerging Social Issues

4-6 September 2003, Bangkok

Provisional Agenda

Keynote Speech (By Senator Eita Yashiro, Japan)

Gender equality, poverty eradication and the Millennium Development Goals: promoting women's capabilities and participation (Professor Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex)

Socially vulnerable groups; selected issues (Item 4 of the provisional agenda)

(a) Population and development: persistent and emerging issues

(b) Empowerment of persons with disabilities;

(c) Gender and development: investing in capacity-building and participations of women

Health and development: selected issues: (Item 5 of the provisional agenda)

(a) Tackling HIV/AIDS as a development challenge;

(b) Investing in health for development;

(c) SARS: lessons for public health

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