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Date 29
August 2005
Press Release No: N/38/2005
UNESCAP asserts importance of gender
equality at Anniversary of World Conference on Women
Bangkok (UN Information Services) -- Ten years
after the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing,
China, leaders in gender, development and policy have gathered
for four days to commemorate the Conference’s anniversary.
Participants from government, NGOs and the United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(UNESCAP) restated their commitment today to uality at the Beijing
2005: the Tenth Anniversary Commemoration of the Fourth World
Conference on Women, 29 August – 1 September 2005.
The ten-year anniversary reviewed progress gained
by the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, an agenda
formulated in 1995 for women’s political, economic and
social empowerment.
“The Platform’s emphasis was not only on achieving
equality and eliminating discrimination, but was also on the
integration of women as full and equal partners in all policies
and decision-making processes,” Mr. Kim Hak-Su, Executive
Secretary of UNESCAP, said in a statement.
Mr. Kim said UNESCAP is fulfilling its commitment
to gender equality by increasing women’s access to decision-making
and governance. UNESCAOP has achieved concrete results with
legal help on trafficking, microfinance programs, ICT capacity
development and policy formulation
“UNESCAP helps women access to economic
resources, education, information and communication technologies,
as well as assisting in the collection of sex-disaggregated
data and gender information for informed policy formulation
processes. UNESCAP also protects and promotes women’s
human rights and helps eliminate violence against women,”
he said.
As a United Nations Regional Commission, UNESCAP
organized a high level inter-governmental meeting in September
2004, in preparation for the Beijing +10 global review and appraisal.
The meeting concluded by adopting the Bangkok Communiqué
which outlined the issues of gender mainstreaming, a rights
based approach, and working with men and partnerships with civil
society as effective strategies for achieving gender equality.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. David Lazarus, Chief, United Nations Information
Services Bangkok
Tel: +(66-2) 288-1861-66; Fax: +(66-2) 288-1052
E-mail: unisbkk.unescap@un.org
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