Conversations Preparing for the Gender Equality Forum: Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality

When

21/06/2021    
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Event Type

Local Conversations: Preparing for the Gender Equality Forum

This conversation series will helps us to generate urgent action and accountability on gender equality, spotlighting the power of women’s rights activism, feminist solidarity and the leadership of the youth and women everywhere to achieve transformative change. The selected themes of the Generation Equality Action Coalition will shape our conversation. This conversation will be on Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality.

The Generation Equality Forum is a civil society–centred, global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. The Forum kicked off in Mexico City, Mexico, on 29–31 March 2021, and will culminate in Paris, France, on 30 June – 2 July 2021, with the aim of securing a set of concrete, ambitious, and transformative commitments to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality. The landmark effort will bring together governments, corporations and change to define and announce ambitious investments and policies.

The Forum responds to the fact that—despite the commitments made in Beijing in 1995 to take strategic, bold action on gender equality—progress and implementation has been slow. Not a single country today can claim to have achieved gender equality. With women’s rights at risk of rolling back further as a result of the COVID-19 crisis—due to heightened poverty and risks of gender-based violence—the Forum is a rallying point to finally achieve the human rights of all women and girls.

To register, contact diversity@iiwrmb.ca.