The Philippine delegation led by CHED Chairperson Patricia Licuanan, participated in the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+20 Review organized by UNESCAP from 17 t0 20 November 2014 in Bangkok.
Chairperson Licuanan also delivered the country statement during the Ministerial Segment.
The Philippine Delegation, through co-head Ambassador Jocelyn Batoon-Garcia, also actively participated in the deliberations and worked on the inclusion of Philippine priorities in the Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Advancing Gender Equality and Women Empowerment during the Senior Official Segment of the meeting chaired by the Philippines through former Amb. Rosario Manalo, Philippine Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). Amb. Manalo is also the Co-Chair of the Delegation.
Left photo: Former Amb. Manalo (middle) chairs the Senior Official Segment of the Asian and Pacific Review; Right photo: Ambassador Batoon-Garcia (in white coat)
delivers the Philippine intervention during the Senior Official Segment
The members of the Philippine Delegation were government officials from the House of Representatives, Department of Foreign Affairs (including the Philippine Embassy in Bangkok), Department of Justice, Department of Health, Department of Agriculture, National Economic and Development Authority, the Philippine Commission on Women, National Anti-Poverty Commission, Presidential Communications Operations Office, Presidential Human Rights Commission, Philippine Statistics Authority and the Philippine Representative to the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC); and civil society organizations, namely: The Forum for Planning and Development, Inc. Women’s Business Council of the Philippines, LIKHAAN Center for Women’s Health, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era and the Philippine NGO Coalition on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Some members of the Philippine Delegation and other Filipino participants of the Asian
and Pacific Conference: Beijing+20 Review in Bangkok
