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Social Development Division: Latest development
High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and its Regional and Global Outcomes
A high-level intergovernmental meeting to review the regional implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) at fifteen years for the ESCAP region was held from 16-18 November 2009 at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok. Reaffirming their commitment to women's empowerment, Ministers and senior officials from 40 countries closed the three day meeting with the adoption of the Bangkok Declaration for Beijing +15 which will intensify the region's effort to improve the lives of women and girls. more.....
Expert Group Meeting on Closing the Gap: Strategies to Combat and Monitor Exclusion in Asia and the Pacific
Expert Group Meeting on Closing the Gap: Strategies to Combat and Monitor Exclusion in Asia and the Pacific was held from 29 September to 1 October, in Bangkok, Thailand, for the Development Account project on interregional cooperation to strengthen social inclusion, gender equality and health promotion in the Millennium Development Goals. more.....
UN meeting seeks to accelerate progress towards development goals for 2015
Asian Governments Pledge to Complete Cairo Reproductive Health Agenda .
Bangkok (UN/ESCAP Information Services and UN Population Fund)
A global action plan linking reproductive health, women's rights and development remains an urgent priority 15 years after its adoption, Asian and the Pacific governments affirmed today. more.....
Asia-Pacific High-level Forum on ICPD at 15: Accelerating Progress towards the ICPD and Millennium Development Goals, 16-17 September 2009, Bangkok
UN meeting explores pathways towards inclusive social development in Asia-Pacific
Representatives from over 25 countries in Asia and the Pacific, attending the first session of the Committee on Social Development, converged at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok from 24-26 September to seek ways to build more inclusive societies and reduce gaping disparities and social exclusion. more.....
UN High-level Meeting Explores Links Between Migration and Asia-Pacific's Socio-Economic Development
Bangkok (UN/ESCAP Information Services) - With the number of international migrants in Asia having increased nearly twofold since 1960 - growing from an estimated 28 million in 1960 to more than 53 million in 2005 - and with Asia and the Pacific accounting for a third of the world's 190 million migrants, more needs to be done to better understand the impact of the phenomenon on the region's socio-economic development. more.....
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