Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) is a regional network representing voices from across the five sub-regions of Asia and the Pacific. APWW welcomes the priority theme for the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls’.
APWW recognizes that the priority theme is a prerequisite to the realization of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the International Conference on Population and Development Plan of Action (ICPD PoA), the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It also recognizes the opportunity for Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) to address situations specific to women in conflict and war-affected areas.
The Asia Pacific is home to 60% of the world’s population, of which there are a significant proportion of women. This region has cultures that privilege the male that creates situations where violence against women is exacerbated. It is also a region which sees a multitude of interventions adopted by States and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to employ effective measures to prevent Violence against women (VAW) and girls.
Read more at The Jet, published 19 November 2012.
Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW) is a regional network representing voices from across the five sub-regions of Asia and the Pacific. APWW welcomes the priority theme for the fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women, “Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls’.
APWW recognizes that the priority theme is a prerequisite to the realization of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the International Conference on Population and Development Plan of Action (ICPD PoA), the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It also recognizes the opportunity for Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) to address situations specific to women in conflict and war-affected areas.
The Asia Pacific is home to 60% of the world’s population, of which there are a significant proportion of women. This region has cultures that privilege the male that creates situations where violence against women is exacerbated. It is also a region which sees a multitude of interventions adopted by States and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to employ effective measures to prevent Violence against women (VAW) and girls.
Read more at The Jet, published 19 November 2012.