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Champions for Generation Equality.
Watch video on demand2020 will mark 25 years since the Beijing Platform for Action set forth guidelines on how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. Despite some progress, real change has been slow and today not a single country can claim to have achieved gender equality.
Multiple obstacles remain unchanged including the fact that women’s leadership remains limited and in numbers women are still underrepresented in all leading positions, whether in politics, the civil service or the private sector. This needs to change - and as UN Women is at the centre of mobilizing governments and civil societies to keep the promises of the Beijing Platform for Action, a special focus will be placed on this important issue leading up to 2020.
The title of the event Champions for Generation Equality reflects on its focus to introduce how the hosts aim to champion for women leaders and Generation Equality with its cooperation. The format is of a launching event with interventions of women world leaders and UN Women Executive Director.
Agenda: Introducing Generation Equality; the focus on female leaders; the group of Champions that starts with CWWL members but will become a group of 282 female leaders that aim to change the more traditional picture of a leader and advocate for change.