The Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) was the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in mid-1995. The BPFA reiterated the vision of the earlier conferences to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. Progress in the implementation of the Platform for Action was reviewed in 2000 and 2005 at international level but a comprehensive review is scheduled two decades after the Beijing Conference at an international meeting in 2015. Blurb Source: http://countryoffice.unfpa.org/srilanka/reports=11891