More than??around the world on 1 October 2020 at the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, the historic meeting at which the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was adopted.
Today, the Beijing Platform for Action remains the most visionary agenda for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, but the progress made falls far short of what countries committed themselves to in 1995.
?flagged that commitments have not been matched by action, investments or accountability, and that an approach of addressing symptoms rather than causes has led to a state of perpetual crisis.
At the high-level meeting,??called for a strong push to meet the unfulfilled promise of the Beijing Platform for Action.?
"It starts with the equal representation of women in leadership positions, in governments, boardrooms, in climate negotiations, and at the peace table – everywhere decisions are taken that affect people's lives."?
In support of the UN Decade of Action, UN Women has launched six??to catalyze collective action and drive increased investments to deliver concrete, game-changing results to advance gender equality.
The Action Coalitions will be presented at the?, a civil society–centred global gathering for gender equality convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the Governments of Mexico and France, in partnership with civil society, in June 2021 in Paris.
?"Women's leadership, including young women, is vital in the face of urgent need to rebuild better after COVID-19. Women and the people of the world are demanding these changes. In the Decade of Action and in the context of the SDGs there is no longer any excuse for these imbalances," said?.?
