2025 is the year of Beijing+30: the international commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). Government and civil society review of progress and gaps in the 12 critical areas of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is under way.

Bangkok is the venue for three major Asia-Pacific meetings pertaining to the Beijing+30 review:

• Young Feminist Forum (16 November 2024);
• Asia-Pacific CSO Forum (17-18 November 2024);
• Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review, Conference (19-21 November 2024).

The combined outcomes of the Young Feminist Forum and the Asia-Pacific CSO Forum are expected to be presented to the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference.
The outcome of the Ministerial Conference will serve as the Asia-Pacific input to the deliberations at the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2025.

For the first time, women with disabilities are engaging more visibly in the Beijing review process, including through, among others, membership in the Beijing +30 Civil Society Steering Committee for Asia-Pacific, as well as presentations in the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review and in a side event.

Efforts are under way to collate inputs from women and girls with disabilities for crafting an Asia-Pacific declaration by/for women and girls with disabilities.

There are also other forthcoming events that women and girls with disabilities and our allies could leverage for strategic advocacy.

To support those who are exploring the possible use of these opportunities for strategic advocacy, The OKU Rights Matter Project team has prepared reference notes on women and girls with disabilities and gender-disability-ageing intersectionality. Available in accessible PDF and Word.

Reference notes on women and girls with disabilities and gender-disability-ageing intersectionality by The OKU Rights Matter Project, 30 November 2024.

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CSW70

Commission on the Status of Women Seventieth session
New York, 9–19 March 2026
Agenda item 3 (a) (i)
Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”: implementation of strategic objectives and action in critical areas of concern and further actions and initiatives: priority theme: ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices, and addressing structural barriers
Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices, and addressing structural barriers – Agreed conclusions.

CSW70 Global Youth and Adolescents Recommendations
Beyond Access: Justice, Power, and Young Feminist Leadership by Young Feminist Caucus

Advocacy Toolkit: Learn how to advocate for yourself and others at CSW and beyond by NGOCSW

Join NGO CSW/NY: Empower Feminist Activists & Amplify Global Voices for Change by NGOCSW

Youth Policy Recommendations: Access to Justice for Young Women in Agrifood Systems by World Food Forum