GO Make Statements Heard at HLM; Drafting of Report Document Begins

September 9, Bangkok—Day three of the ESCAP High Level Ministerial Meeting (HLM) to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action was marked by shifting schedules, limiting time for parallel discussion and giving more time for panel presentations and discussion in plenary. Governments insisted that the schedule set by the ESCAP secretariat be adjusted to allow for governments to have more interactions with each other.

Power and Partnerships: Necessary Ingredients for Action

Bangkok, 09 September 2004 --Partnership is an important prerequisite for the empowerment of women. However, there is a serious ambivalence on the concept of partnership and empowerment of women even by women themselves.

Governments Carry NGO Message on BPFA

September 7, Bangkok---The APNGO Forum Caucus, non-governmental organisations that coalesced to lobby for full implementation of the Beijing Platform For Action (BPFA) in the Asia and Pacific region, found sure allies among governments at the opening of the High Level Ministerial Meeting (HLM) to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Bangkok, Thailand.

'Purple Book' to reaffirm women's dev't needs in Asia-Pacific

Bangkok, September 5--- Ministers, UNESCAP and WOMEN'S NGOs of the Asia Pacific region gear up to review the gains and challenges of the ten years that came after the last women’s world conference in 1995.

NGO Strategies Set, Women Wary of Backsliding and US Intervention at HLM

“Reaffirm and fully implement the BPFA and Beijing Plus Five Outcome Document”

This is the message that NGOs and women activists will take to the government ministers attending the High Level Ministerial meeting (HLM) on the Review of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) starting September 7, here in Bangkok, Thailand.

Use CEDAW to Hold Government Accountable, Women Urged

International human rights instruments are a better means of achieving gender equality. Instead of focusing on commitments made to the Beijing Platform for Action, women have to assert equality as a human right.