• Source: EGM: prevention of violence against women and girls

    • The Expert Group Meeting (EGM): prevention of violence against women and girls was convened as part of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women's multi-year programme of work for 2010–2014. The "Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls" forms a priority theme for its fifty-seventh session in 2013 (CSW57). The meeting took place in Bangkok, Thailand, 17–20 September 2012 and was organised by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), in collaboration with the following organisations:

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP);
    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP);
    United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA);
    United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and;
    World Health Organization (WHO).


    Participants




    See also



    CEDAW
    Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
    Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
    Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
    Gender Equality Architecture Reform
    Global Implementation Plan to End Violence against Women and Girls
    NGO CSW/NY
    United Nations Development Fund for Women
    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
    Women's rights


    References




    External links


    Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), UN Women. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
    Original copy of the EGM report (as a downloadable pdf) and all documentation. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

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