This conference will bring together ministers, senior officials from UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) member states and civil society representatives to review progress and remaining challenges in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. Participants will also discuss the Asia-Pacific regional report on progress in implementing the Platform, including achievements, challenges and priorities for gender equality. The conference is expected to result in an outcome document reconfirming commitment to action on gender equality, and outlining priorities for action in the next ten years. This outcome will serve as an input to the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 59), in March 2015. ESCAP and UN Women are organizing the conference as part of a series of regional consultations on the Beijing+20 Review.  

dates: 17-21 November 2014  
venue: UN Conference Center  
location: Bangkok (Krung Thep), Thailand  
contact: ESCAP  
phone: +66 2 288 1865  
fax: +66 2 288 1052  
e-mail: escap-scas@un.org  
www: http://www.unescapsdd.org/events/asian-and-pacific-conference-gender-equality-and-womens-empowerment-beijing20-review
 http://www.unescap.org/events/asian-and-pacific-conference-gender-equality-and-womens-empowerment-beijing20-review