AKIPRESS.COM - The international forum Trans-Altai Sustainability Dialogue begins in the capital of Mongolia today, June 13. Delegations from all over the world take part in the forum.

Candidate of Medical Sciences and Associate Professor of the International Medical University of Kyrgyzstan Abdrasul Isakov participates in the forum.

Yesterday Isakov met with Speaker of Mongolian Parliament Zandanshatar Gombozhav, along with other representatives from Azerbaijan and Turkey.

The forum participants will discuss barriers to gender equality in education, the labor market, and government, examine gender-based violence and human rights and the connections between gender equality and sustainable development, and consider policy solutions to facilitate shift to the empowerment of all women and girls, Shorenstein APARC notes.