Report of the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
An edition of Report of the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (2015)
Beijing+20 Review, Bangkok, 17-20 November 2014
By Thailand) Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (2014 Bangkok
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,United Nations Environment Programme
Language
eng
Pages
61
Description:
"To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Economic and Social Council, in its resolution 2013/18, called on all Member States to undertake comprehensive national-level reviews of the progress made and challenges encountered in implementation of the Platform for Action. The resolution further encouraged "the regional commissions to undertake regional reviews so that the outcomes of intergovernmental processes at the regional level can feed into the 2015 review", overseen by the Commission on the Status of Women. In accordance with this mandate, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) convened, in cooperation with UN-Women, the "Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Beijing +20 Review" from 17 to 20 November 2014 in Bangkok." --