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Date 9
September 2004
Press Release No: N/23/2004
CLOSING PRESS CONFERENCE SET FOR BEIJING +10 MEETING
Organizers to give scorecard for Asia-Pacific
region
Bangkok (United Nations Information Services)
-- A closing press conference to announce the outcome of the
High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation
of the Beijing Platform for Action and its Regional and Global
Outcomes will be held on Friday, 10 September 2004 from 12:30-13:15
hrs at the UN Conference Centre, Bangkok.
Participants include H.E. Ms. Habiba Sarabi, Minister
of Women's Affairs, Afghanistan and Chairperson of the Meeting,
Mr. Kim Hak-Su, UNESCAP Executive Secretary, and Ms. Thelma
Kay, Chief, UNESCAP Emerging Social Issues Division.
At the press conference the organizers will present
the results of the meeting including a stocktaking of achievements
since the ground-breaking 1995 Women's Conference in Beijing
and factors hampering women's advancement in the region.
Approximately 400 participants from 38 countries
including a dozen Ministers have been attending the four-day
meeting which is examining such issues as globalization, ICT,
governance, HIV/AIDS, gender-mainstreaming of women's human
rights, partnerships, and working with men.
The output of the Meeting will be the regional
input into the global Review and Appraisal of the Implementation
of Beijing Platform for Action, to be carried out by the UN
Commission on the Status of Women in March 2005.
The meeting is being organized by UNESCAP's Gender
and Development Section. Further information may be found at:
www.unescap.org/esid/GAD.
Note to Editors: You or your representatives are
invited to attend the press conference at Theatre, ground floor,
UN Conference Centre, from 12:30-13:15 hrs on Friday, 10 September
2004. A Ministerial Roundtable Discussion on 'Partnerships:
Moving Beijing Forward' will precede the press conference from
08:30-10:00 hrs.
For further information please contact
Ms. Margaret Hanley, Information Officer
UN Information Services Bangkok
Tel: +(66-2) 288-1862, Fax: +(66-2) 288-1052
E-mail: unisbkk.unescap@un.org
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