Beijing+10, India's Review

CRITICAL AREAS OF CONCERN ON WOMEN ISSUES

TWELVE CRITICAL AREAS
INTERNATIONAL INPUTS
Women & Poverty Asia Pacific women celebrate reconfirmation of Beijing Declaration
BANGKOK – 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 ...
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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, this could be taken ...
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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. This is the call made by Savitri ...
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NGO 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 ...
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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 ...
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