"ST/ESCAP/2713" Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Advancing Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment -- Proceedings -- Organization -- Annex.
Summary:
"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." -- Foreword, page iii.
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