EGM: prevention of violence against women and girls

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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).^[1]