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NEWS
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REPORTS from
the High Level Ministerial Meeting (HLM)
to Review Regional Implementation of the
Beijing Platform for Action September 7-10,
2004 Bangkok, Thailand:
Sept
10- Asia
Pacific women celebrate reconfirmation of
Beijing Declaration
Over 300 women from Asia Pacific governments
and non-government groups reaffirmed the
Beijing Platform for Action, the document
adopted nearly a decade ago in the historic
women’s conference in China, at the
end of a meeting ...read
more
Sept
9-
Feminisation of Migrant Labour tackled
at HLM
UNIFEM reports that there are 56
million migrant women workers in Asia and
Pacific. According to Irena Vojackova-Sollorano
of the International Organisation for Migration
...read
more
Sept
9- Use
CEDAW to hold governments 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.
...read
more
Sept
9- NGOs
make statements heard at HLM; drafting of
report document begins
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.
...readmore
Sept
8- Power
and partnerships: necessary ingredients
for action
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...read
more
Sept
8- Women’s
infocom groups form Media and ICT Caucus,
reaffirm Beijing Platform
Women’s
information and communication organisations
formed the Media and ICT Caucus in the ongoing
Asia-Pacific High Level Meeting to review
the implementation of the Beijing Platform
for Action (BPFA)...read
more
Sept
8- A
Gender-responsive Information Society: A
Priority in the Asia-Pacific Beijing +10
Agenda
Gender,
media and information and communication
technologies are being taken up as critical
issues...read
more
Young
Women’s Statement
The
issues of young women are diverse and varied,
yet there are commonalities that link our
experience throughout the Asia Pacific region.
We share many of the concerns of other women
but, because of our age, face them differentl...read
more
Sept.
7- Governments
carry NGO message on BPFA
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 HLM..read
more
Sept. 7-
Asian
women take on more low-paying jobs in service
sector, study shows
Trade
globalisation may have brought more economic
benefits to Asia and the Pacific region
on the surface, but this has meant more
women entering low-paid jobs in the service
sector. This is a result of the study made
by Jayati Gosh... read
more
Sept.
6-
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)..read
more
Sep.
6 - 'Purple
Book' to reaffirm women's dev't needs in
Asia-Pacific
Ministers, UNESCAP and
WOMEN'S NGOs of the Asia
Pacific region gear up to review the gains
and challenges of the ten yearsthat came
after the last women’s world conference
in 1995. read
more
The draft of the Purple
Book is now ready for download.
For
reports on the recent AP-NGO forum, visit
the Isis
website
 Papers
presented during the forum can be downloaded
from the
programme
page.
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