Registration for the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

On 17-20 November in Bangkok, Thailand, there will be a regional intergovernmental meeting to review the progress of governments in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) entitled “Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment.”

The intergovernmental Conference is a UN-led review of governments progress in relation to the Beijing Platform for Action. The outcome of the Conference will feed into the global dialogue around Beijing+20 to be held in 2015.

If your organisation is engaged in BPfA+20 review process, we encourage you to register to the intergovernmental Conference. While the nature of civil society participation is not yet determined, it will be good to flag our participation at this point. The deadline for registration is on August 25, 2014.

The intergovernmental Conference will be preceded by an NGO Forum which we anticipate will have broad participation from civil society across the region. The dates for the NGO Forum is yet to be determined.

For the meantime, if you want to participate in the intergovernmental Conference, please fill-out the nomination form and send to Marevic Parcon, WGNRR Asia Programme Officer, marevic@wgnrr.org together with the photo page of your passport by August 24, 2014. Marevic will send all forms to the secretariat (UNESCAP) of the intergovernmental conference on August 25. WGNRR is part of the CSO Steering Committee that will coordinate the NGO Forum, however, we don’t have the financial capacity to cover for your flights, DSA and accommodation during the duration of the Conferences.