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Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing 30+ Review

Nov 19, 2024 | ESCAP and UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Conference Center, Bangkok, Thailand, Thailand
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ESCAP will convene the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review in collaboration with UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in Bangkok, from 19-21 November 2024. The Conference will bring together Ministers, senior officials and representatives from relevant Ministries, civil society organizations, youth organizations, academia, the private sector, UN entities, independent experts and other key stakeholders from across the Asia-Pacific region to:

  • To assess progress to the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) in Asia and the Pacific over the past five years;
  • Review current and emerging challenges, good practices, lessons learned, and priority actions required to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and its contribution towards the full realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; 
  • Provide a platform for member States and stakeholders to explore policy options and strategies, including innovative approaches, toward realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women;
  • Build regional consensus on priority actions to accelerate the implementation of commitments made in the BPfA;
  • Consolidate regional inputs to the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women which will focus on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly