Beijing+30 Regional Review Meeting “Reviewing 30 Years of Beijing Commitments to Accelerate Gender Equality in the ECE Region”

Date: 21 - 22 October 2024 

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) are organizing the Beijing+30 Regional Review Meeting, titled “Reviewing 30 years of Beijing Commitments to Accelerate Gender Equality in the ECE Region,” on October 21-22, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland.

The interministerial meeting aims to reinvigorate political commitment to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the UNECE region and build regional consensus on priority actions to accelerate the implementation of commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It will bring together ministers, senior officials and representatives from relevant ministries, UN Nations entities, regional institutions and organizations, civil society organizations, youth organizations, academia, independent experts and other relevant stakeholders from across the UNECE region.

The objectives of the conference are to:

• Assess progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in the ECE region over the past five years.
• Review current and emerging challenges, good practices, lessons learned, and priority actions required to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women, contributing towards the full realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including SDG 5 on gender equality and all other SDGs.
• Provide a platform for Member States and stakeholders to explore policy options and strategies, including innovative approaches and good practices, toward realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women.
• Build regional consensus on priority actions to accelerate the implementation of commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
• Consolidate regional inputs for the 69^th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which will focus on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly. 

High-level roundtables will deliberate on priorities that concern gender equality and the empowerment of women in the UNECE region, including: (i) Key trends in gender equality dynamics; (ii) Accelerating women’s economic empowerment: the path to peaceful, just and inclusive societies; (iii) Women in leadership and their full and equal participation in decision-making; (iv)Ending violence against women and girls; (v) Leveraging financing for gender equality; (vi) Closing the gender gap: effective policies to deliver on SDGs in the ECE region. See the ‘Beijing+30 in Europe and Central Asia’ In Focus page for more information.

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