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GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT SECTION

The Gender and Development Section works to promote women’s empowerment and advancement, overcoming barriers to gender equality while reducing poverty in the UNESCAP region. In order to reduce poverty, promote development and achieve gender equality, it is necessary to increase women’s access to economic resources, education, information and communication technologies and governance, as well as to protect women’s human rights and eliminate all forms of violence against women.
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New CSEC Report "Situational Analysis Report on CSEC in Fiji" More...

New Publications:
Discussion Paper No. 17 - Violence against and Trafficking in Women as Symptoms of Discrimination: ThePotential of CEDAW as an Antidote More...

Discussion Paper No. 18 - GENDER and HIV/AIDS in the ASIA and PACIFIC REGION More...

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children resources and link More...

Expert Group Meeting on the Promotion and Implementation of CEDAW, Trafficking in Women and Violence Against Women, 3-5 October 2005, UNCC, Meeting Room G. More...

"Young Men Speak Out" - VCD short film

Based on a side event at our High-level Meeting in September 2004, a new VCD, entitled "Young Men Speak Out" has been released. This a short film to be used as an information sharing and awareness-raising tool to promote the inclusion of young men and men's participation in achieving gender equality and combating violence against women. More...

Cases and Materials on Application and Implementation/Interpretation of the International and Regional Legal Instruments on Human Trafficking at the national level. More...

Asia and the Pacific Beijing +10: Selected Issues, 2005
Presentations from 2004 High-Level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and its Regional and Global Outcomes. More...

This publication contains the papers prepared by the experts for their presentations at the High-Level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and its Regional and Global Outcomes which was convened at Bangkok, Thailand, from 7-10 September 2004. It is hoped that this publication would add value to any efforts and initiatives that are being taken by concerned entities to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, and provide useful perspectives and suggestions for the formulation of relevant policies and designing of measures to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the twenty-third special
session of the General Assembly.

Gender and Development Discussion Paper Series No. 16, February 2005 "Women in International Trade and Migration: Examining the Globolized Provision of Care Services". This publication explores the gender dimension of movements of persons providing care services across internationsl borders. More...

Concept Note on the use of gender-sensitive qualitatives indicators for monitoring implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. This paper, built on the efforts made by the Gender and Development Section and the Statistics Division of UNESCAP, aims at compiling and disseminating indicators to monitor the progress of implementaiton of the Platform. More...

GENDER ISSUES