Beijing+20 in Aisa Pacific in Brief

The Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) adopted at the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, China, is an unprecedented agenda for women’s empowerment, offering a policy framework and roadmap for achieving gender equality and women’s rights. The BPfA has stimulated action around the world, with governments, civil society and others using it as the basis to end inequality and discrimination ...