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Scenes from the launch event for the new global monitoring report, “Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” held in New York on 14 February 2018.
On 14 February 2018 UN Women launched its flagship report, “Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The report demonstrates through concrete evidence and data the pervasive nature of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, and puts forth actionable recommendations on how to fulfill the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Two and a half years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, this first-of-its-kind report examines through a gender lens the progress and challenges in the implementation of all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Agenda’s focus on peace, equality and sustainability provides a powerful counter-narrative to the current rise of conflict, exclusion and environmental degradation. Yet, women are up against an unprecedented set of challenges in all these areas, and urgent action is needed to address them.
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
One of seven installations during the event Lights in Alingsås 2016 – the theme of the year is Enlightenment. It is based on the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development agreed to by 193 world leaders. This installation is inspired by the goal "13 Climate action".
Workshop head: Chiara Carucci, Italy & Erik Hagström, Sweden. (Chiara Carucci is currently working with ÅF consult, website in English and Swedish)
www.afconsult.com/sv/gor-affarer-med-oss/vara-kompetenser...
"Every action has direct consequences. Here one might discover different rules. Can you find the key to make it work? Only one solution will make a change... 1... 2... 3... 4 - Go!!!"
Every year in september/october leading international lighting designers come to Alingsås to hold a week´s workshop with participants from all over the world. Together they light a number of buildings and locations around the town centre. Around 80 000 people come every year to see the designs during the month-long event.
www.lightsinalingsas.se/en (website about this year´s event in English and Swedish)
Yusra Mardini, an 18-year-old Olympian swimmer and Yiech Pur Biel is a 21-year-old track and field Olympian who competed in the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics with Team Refugees, pictured with
Carolyn Miles, President and Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and members at UN Foundation’s Facebook Live room at the 2016 Social Good Summit.
Olympian Yusra and her sister swam three-hours when the rubber dinghy they were in with fellow Syrian refugees began to sink in the middle of the Aegean Sea as the group was fleeing from Syria to Lesbos for Greece. They saved 20 lives that day.
Yiech Pur Biel was only 10-years-old when his mom left him and four siblings at an orphanage in South Sudan, not knowing if her kids could survive the perilous trek to Ethiopia. At 11, Yusra became a refugee in Kenya, and lived in Kakuma Refugee Camp for the next 10 years of his life. From morning to nightfall, he ran, without shoes, without adequate access to water or sanitation, he ran all the way to the Olympics team.
Credit: Lei Phyu/ UNDP
Background
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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Background
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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This image is posted under a Creative Commons - Attribution Licence, in accordance with the Open Government Licence. You are free to embed, download or otherwise re-use it, as long as you credit the source as 'Jessica Lea/DFID'.
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future: Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016 | New York City
Womensphere’s Annual Fall Summit brought together over 200 diverse leaders and emerging leaders across sectors, including executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, artists, student leaders, and leaders from civil society. Convened on the day before the 2016 US national elections, we were thrilled to be able to come together in celebration and strength, to share, discuss, ideate, and collaborate on creating the future to accelerate the advancement of women in all fields.
We were excited to honor Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman Carla Harris with the Womensphere Global Leadership Award for her powerful and creative vision, her longstanding commitment to empowering women and youth of color, and more than a dozen other great reasons. We were happy to bring together ground-breaking innovators, executives, educators, artists, and leaders creating change for women around the world – to launch some very important initiatives. The event offered a forum for sharing and co-designing global and local programs that accelerate the advancement of women and girls in America and around the world.
Womensphere Fall Summit on Creating the Future
Agenda for November 7, 2016
1:00-1:30 PM
Registration, Connecting with Discussion Co-Hosts, and Roundtable Introductions
1:30-2:10 PM
Welcome, Introductions, Context-setting & Launch
• The Leadership Gender Gap: Overview of Global, US, Cross-Industry Contexts
• Women in Leadership & Innovation: Challenges, Opportunities
• Technology-powered Leadership
• NowIsTheTime.com: Celebrating Women’s Firsts
• New Models for Leadership in the World
• Launching NewChampions5050 + Womensphere Incubator Network global initiatives
Anna Ewing – Board Member, New York Hall of Science; Angel Investor; Past CIO & EVP, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX
Dr. Valerie Barr – President, ACM-Women (Association for Computing Machinery)
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS
Analisa Leonor Balares – CEO & Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere
Drue Kataoka – Global Artist & Creator, Now is The Time
2:10 – 3:00 PM
Womensphere Global Leadership Award 2016 & Keynote
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; President, National Women’s Business Council
Advancing Women in Leadership in Business & Insights on the Journey to Executive Leadership
Plenary Discussion Panel
Angela Sun – Head of Corporate Development & Strategy, Bloomberg; Young Global Leader
Carla Harris – Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Lili Gil Valetta – CEO, XL Alliance; Young Global Leader
Mary Graham Davis – Managing Partner, Davis Bateson Group; Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 – 3:10PM Networking Break
3:10 – 4:00 PM
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Building the Pipeline of Talent & Accelerating Leadership for Women
• Insights on Advancing Women in Business & Finance
• Insights on Advancing Women in Science & Technology
• Insights on Advancing Women in Academia & Academic Leadership
• Empowering Millennials to Change the World
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation for Global Initiatives 2017
Amy Dorn Kopelan –President & Founder, Bedlam Productions; Executive Producer, Corporate State CEO Summit
Laura Cantileno – Executive, Cisco; Co-Author, Internet of Women
Dr. Gilda Barabino – Dean, Grove School of Engineering, City College New York
Aria Finger – CEO, DoSomething.org; Young Global Leader
4:00 – 4:50
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Accelerating Impact & Advancing Women's Leadership in the World
• Principles in Accelerating Impact
• Women's Leadership in the World: Driving the Sustainability & Inclusion Agenda
• Women's Innovation in the World: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Leveraging Technology to Amplify & Accelerate Impact
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation: Strategies for Accelerating Women’s Impact & Advancing Women’s
Leadership (Across Fields/Industries)
Dr. Nada Anid – Dean, School of Engineering, New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Sana Odeh – Chair & Founder, Arab Women in Computing
Dina Shoman – CEO & Founder, InHerQuests financial education company; Young Global Leader
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS; Young Global Leader
4:50 – 5:40
Synthesis & Community Solutions from Roundtable Discussions & Ideation Sessions
• Synthesis of Insights & Learnings – Community Presentations & Reflections
• Introducing: Project American Dreams
• Introducing: The Internet of Women - book and leaders
• Looking Ahead to 2017: Global Initiatives, Global Movement, Next Steps
5:40 – 6:30
Closing Networking Reception
• Community Connections between Speakers, Discussion Co-Hosts, Participants
• Connect with the Book Authors - The Internet of Women
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future
Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016
Cary Hall @ The DiMenna Center, New York City
Organization: www.womensphere.org
Festival & Summits: www.womenspherefest.com
#Womensphere #CreatingTheFuture
JKS Volunteers took initiative by providing the community of Jaffna, Sri Lanka with dry food packages and distributing 1,000 sanitary pads to women in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. In total the volunteers have distributed food packages to 3,326 residents in their mission to #LeaveNoOneBehind.
Charlize Theron, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, greets Elijah Zachary Lemein, youth and civil representative from Kenya, at the High-Level UNAIDS event, "Action: Implementation - Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 - Shaping new models and means of implementation".
Photo ID: 645357
Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak
Photo Date: 27/09/2015
United Nations, New York
France: President François Hollande
“The first [goal] is to promote women's [position]. …The goal is to enable all girls in the world to freely go to school, to have access to work, to also be able to found their own businesses, and to be able to be autonomous and independent in their lives... The second goal is to promote the place of women for peace... We must mobilize and that's what we're going to do during this General Assembly, to strengthen the means of the High Commission for Refugees, to find a solution to what is happening in Syria, ... combat terrorism, because stopping the war is bringing an end to the suffering of women... In Paris, we will be holding the Climate Conference, and we have been able to note that climate injustices strengthen even further inequalities. …We've also been able to note that it is the women who can be the most capable of playing a role in finding solutions to global warming and preserving the environment. It's for this reason I would ask that ...in the Paris Conference, financing for women will be a priority. The final objective is to promote the [position] of women because this is to act for dignity. I therefore call for the universal ratification of the Convention on all Forms of Discrimination against Women. … If we want these goals to become truly the global order, if we want these to be achieved, there’s only one way to do it: To give many more women responsibility in countries that make up the international community, to ensure equality at all levels of the administration and politics. If I can give an example, in France, the Government that I chose and created has more women than men.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
On Saturday 12 September hundreds of young people will gather in London at The Youth Summit to help shape the future of our world.
At the end of September, world leaders will sign up to new Global Goals.
Background
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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Comoros: President Ikililou Dhoinine
“The Union of the Comoros has always displayed an undeniable drive towards creating a social fabric where women can take their rightful place. The Constitution of the Union of the Comoros enshrines… equality for all in rights and in duties without any distinction on the grounds of sex or gender… Women are [full-fledged actors] leveraging their capabilities to deliver development. Therefore, their empowerment needs to be strongly promoted. The Government of the Comoros would like to reiterate here before you all through my good offices its commitment to the swift implementation of the Beijing [Platform for] Action. The Government of the Comoros is committed to building on its 2011 policy on preschool attendance in public schools. Since introducing the programme in 2011, in just two years we have seen the enrolment of some 6,000 children in preschool, so we hope to continue building on these numbers. We’ve also pledged to step up measures taken to ensure that appropriate services are made available to women during their pregnancy, delivery and on a post-natal basis. We have also given priority to reproductive health in our new health strategy, which has enabled us to step up the reduction of maternal mortality rates from 381 to 170 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2007 and 2012. The Union of the Comoros is also committed to [beefing] up its multisectoral strategy on HIV… [and] to continuing efforts to ensure that more women will be in key decision-making posts in our national institutions. [We are] working to enhance access by women to microcredit which will allow them to continue to play a key role in our national economy.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Youth activists Fahma Mohamed and Hamda Mohamed meet former Development Secretary Justine Greening to share their support for the Global Goals of reducing inequality, improving gender equality and supporting good jobs and growth.
Background
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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A view form of the General Assembly Hall, as Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, addresses the general debate of the Assembly’s seventieth session.
NICA ID: 645485
Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton
Photo Date: 28/09/2015
United Nations, New York
Netherlands: Prime Minister Mark Rutte
"Netherlands government is committed to increasing women’s economic independence and financial self-sufficiency. Equality between women and men is also a guiding principle of our foreign and development efforts because gender equality provides a basis for stability and economic prosperity. We work closely with governments, businesses and civil society organizations … around the world to achieve this goal. In January 2016, my Government is launching a programme called Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women. Its aim is to support women’s economic and political participation, and combat violence against women and girls in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. It will be the largest fund of its kind in the whole world. An important part of our international efforts is advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. For women worldwide to have a voice and economic opportunities, they need to be able to make their own choices about sexuality and family planning. So in 2016 the Netherlands is launching another major fund to advance these rights around the world."
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Sarah Stacke
China: President Xi Jinping
“China will do more to enhance gender equality as its basic State policy, give play to women's important role as ‘half of the sky’ and support them in realizing their own dreams and aspirations in both career and life. … Let us reaffirm the support of the Beijing Conference with renewed commitment and pledge greater efforts to promote gender equality and women’s all-around development. … To support women’s development worldwide and the work of the UN Women, China will donate USD 10 million to UN Women for the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the realization of the related goals in the post-2015 development agenda. In the coming five years, China will help other developing countries build 100 ‘health projects for women and children,’ send teams of medical experts to provide services and implement 100 ‘happy campus projects’ to finance the schooling of poor girls and raise girls’ school enrolment rate. We will also host 30,000 women from developing countries for training programmes in China and provide 100,000 skills training opportunities in local communities of other developing countries. Under the related fund co-sponsored by China and the UN, there will be special capacity-building programmes for women from developing countries.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 as UN Women and China co-host the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Cultures of Peru (CHIRAPAQ) – Tarcila Rivera Zea, Executive Director
“Representation of women around the world, and in particular indigenous women, is important because I think it is indigenous women who are most impacted by climate change. We need to commit and invest in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and to ensure that the content of the 2030 Agenda seeks to build upon and further support the unmet goals and commitments under the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Such political will and such drive will allow us to deliver gender equality, and stamp out remaining inequalities and injustices including violence, discrimination and exclusion from social spheres. An exclusion which still has a female face.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Nepal: Deputy Prime Minister Prakash Man Singh
"Over the years, Nepal has made substantive efforts of further promotion of gender equality and empowerment of women. … The following actions are the highlights of our commitments and achievements in this field: adoption and implementation of proportionate, inclusive and affirmative policies and laws; mandatory participation of women in all civil and security agencies; implementation of action plans, including CEDAW and the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action; implementation of national action plans based on the UN Security Council resolutions 1325 and 1820; enactment and enforcement of laws and rules with the government’s zero-tolerance policy tool on sexual and domestic violence, workplace-related sexual harassment, child marriage, witchcraft allegations, and other gender-based discriminations. [We have elevated] the national women’s commission to constitutional status; [mainstreamed] gender as a cross-cutting issue in all development policies and programmes, including through a gender-responsive budgeting system, which has now reached 22 per cent of the total budget. [We are] integrating … legal rights and instruments –including ICCPR, CEDAW, CRC, CRPD– into national legislation. Nepal has an inclusive and democratic Constitution written by the elected representatives of the people which was promulgated last week on 20 September. While women enjoy all the fundamental rights and freedoms that are enshrined in the new Constitution, art. 43 specifically deals with the rights of women that include the right to lineage, right to safe maternity and reproduction, right against all forms of exploitation, equal rights in family matters and property. The Constitution ensures at least 33 per cent representation of women in Parliament. Most importantly, the new Constitution has a provision according to which persons of the same gender…cannot occupy both the elected office of the president and the vice-president at the same time…"
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Youth activists Fahma Mohamed and Hamda Mohamed has their photo taken with former Development Secretary Justine Greening to share their support for the Global Goals of reducing inequality, improving gender equality and supporting good jobs and growth.
Background
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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Yoo Soon-taek (in profile), wife of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, hosts a tea at her residence in honour of the spouses of the Heads of Delegations attending the seventieth general debate of the General Assembly.
NICA ID: 646977
Credit: UN Photo/Amanda Voisard
Photo Date: 29/09/2015
New York, United States
Charlotte Scaddan of the Social Media Team in the UN Department of Public Information (DPI) holds up a Twitter Mirror to Pope Francis and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as they stand with the UN Staff Recreation Council Singers performing in the Pope’s honour.
Photo ID: 643975
Credit: UN Photo/Amanda Voisard
Photo Date: 25/09/2015
United Nations, New York
Austria: President Heinz Fischer
"Austria commits to further tackling gender stereotypes...Gender-sensitive vocational orientation and educational guidance will be expanded, and gender-theory-based competence of teachers and educators will be strengthened. Austria also commits to the continuation of its National Action Plan on Gender Equality in the Labour Market and will also continue to tackle the high gender-pay-gap and to strengthen income transparency. We will continue comprehensive action to reconcile family work, both for women and men. Extending the provision of childcare facilities and including men in childcare and care responsibilities remains a focus of our efforts. We shall continue to intensify mentoring and training programmes to encourage women to stand for elections on all political levels…as well as awareness-raising and trainings in gender competence for university bodies and decision-makers. Promoting women’s share in management and board positions in our companies remains a priority. Creating efficient measures to prevent and to protect women and girls from all forms of violence in domestic and social contexts will remain a central concern. Austria is committed to the work of UN Women and will continue on a voluntary basis to support activities in the fields of women, peace and security, violence against women and access to justice. Our development cooperation will continue its efforts to promote gender equality by supporting our partners to ensure equal access to economic opportunities, social and financial services, and to overcome gender-related barriers in society and legal systems."
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The United Nations and Mattel, Inc., launched a collaboration at New York Headquarters today to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals to pre‑school audiences through the animated children’s series Thomas & Friends.
Through the collaboration, elements from 5 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are incorporated into nine of the 26 episodes of the new season of Thomas & Friends, which premieres on Nick Jr. in the United States today, with global roll-out in the coming months. The specific targets represented in the episodic content are Goal 4 on Quality Education; Goal 5 on Gender Equality; Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities; Goal 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production; and Goal 15 on Life on Land.
On 7 September at UN Headquarters the UN and Thomas & Friends co-hosted a roundtable event to bring awareness to the importance of inspiring the next generation of global citizens, starting at an early age.
Panelists included:
Olivia Wilde, Actress, Filmmaker, Activist, Mother
Pamela S. Falk, UN Resident Correspondent CBS News and Radio
Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka UN Women’s Africa Programme Adviser
Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division at the United Nations Department of Public Information
Richard Dickson, President and COO of Mattel
Ian McCue, Senior Producer of Thomas & Friends
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Journalists working in the stakeout area outside the Security Council Chamber, as they wait for an update on the meeting of representatives of the P5+1 with the Foreign Minister of Iran.
NICA ID: 646131
Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Photo Date: 28/09/2015
United Nations, New York
High-level ministerial meeting entitled “Moving Together for the World’s Heritage” co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Italy and Jordan to the United Nations in collaboration with INTERPOL, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
NICA ID: 645161
Credit: UN Photo/Kim Haughton
Photo Date: 27/09/2015
United Nations, New York
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders – Bandana Rana
“The links between gender-based violence and impunity, militarization, military spending, forced migration, displacement, and the prevalence of small arms must be addressed if meaningful gains are to be made. Today more than ever, the contribution of civil society and women’s organizations at the grass-roots level will be key to the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda...Their work should be recognized and an enabling environment created for them to be able to contribute even more meaningfully as we lead towards 2030. Your political will must address the funding gap with increased, sustained and secure finding to make gender equality a reality. As we move ahead to transform the world with the 2030 development agenda, let us commit to a world where every family rejoices at the birth of a girl; where women and girls no longer face any form of discrimination; where women and girls do not have to live in fear of being sexually and physically abused in homes or on the streets; where care responsibilities are shared equitably and women’s work and contribution is valued and recognized; where women are equally represented in leadership positions, and have their voice heard and acted on by decision-makers; where violence of any form is unacceptable.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Sarah Stacke
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Pictured: behind the scenes, including UN Women Staff
The United Nations and Mattel, Inc., launched a collaboration at New York Headquarters today to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals to pre‑school audiences through the animated children’s series Thomas & Friends.
Through the collaboration, elements from 5 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are incorporated into nine of the 26 episodes of the new season of Thomas & Friends, which premieres on Nick Jr. in the United States today, with global roll-out in the coming months. The specific targets represented in the episodic content are Goal 4 on Quality Education; Goal 5 on Gender Equality; Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities; Goal 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production; and Goal 15 on Life on Land.
On 7 September at UN Headquarters the UN and Thomas & Friends co-hosted a roundtable event to bring awareness to the importance of inspiring the next generation of global citizens, starting at an early age.
Panelists included:
Olivia Wilde, Actress, Filmmaker, Activist, Mother
Pamela S. Falk, UN Resident Correspondent CBS News and Radio
Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka UN Women’s Africa Programme Adviser
Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division at the United Nations Department of Public Information
Richard Dickson, President and COO of Mattel
Ian McCue, Senior Producer of Thomas & Friends
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The United Nations and Mattel, Inc., launched a collaboration at New York Headquarters today to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals to pre‑school audiences through the animated children’s series Thomas & Friends.
Through the collaboration, elements from 5 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are incorporated into nine of the 26 episodes of the new season of Thomas & Friends, which premieres on Nick Jr. in the United States today, with global roll-out in the coming months. The specific targets represented in the episodic content are Goal 4 on Quality Education; Goal 5 on Gender Equality; Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities; Goal 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production; and Goal 15 on Life on Land.
On 7 September at UN Headquarters the UN and Thomas & Friends co-hosted a roundtable event to bring awareness to the importance of inspiring the next generation of global citizens, starting at an early age.
Panelists included:
Olivia Wilde, Actress, Filmmaker, Activist, Mother
Pamela S. Falk, UN Resident Correspondent CBS News and Radio
Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka UN Women’s Africa Programme Adviser
Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division at the United Nations Department of Public Information
Richard Dickson, President and COO of Mattel
Ian McCue, Senior Producer of Thomas & Friends
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders – Bandana Rana
“The links between gender-based violence and impunity, militarization, military spending, forced migration, displacement, and the prevalence of small arms must be addressed if meaningful gains are to be made. Today more than ever, the contribution of civil society and women’s organizations at the grass-roots level will be key to the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda...Their work should be recognized and an enabling environment created for them to be able to contribute even more meaningfully as we lead towards 2030. Your political will must address the funding gap with increased, sustained and secure finding to make gender equality a reality. As we move ahead to transform the world with the 2030 development agenda, let us commit to a world where every family rejoices at the birth of a girl; where women and girls no longer face any form of discrimination; where women and girls do not have to live in fear of being sexually and physically abused in homes or on the streets; where care responsibilities are shared equitably and women’s work and contribution is valued and recognized; where women are equally represented in leadership positions, and have their voice heard and acted on by decision-makers; where violence of any form is unacceptable.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future: Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016 | New York City
Womensphere’s Annual Fall Summit brought together over 200 diverse leaders and emerging leaders across sectors, including executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, artists, student leaders, and leaders from civil society. Convened on the day before the 2016 US national elections, we were thrilled to be able to come together in celebration and strength, to share, discuss, ideate, and collaborate on creating the future to accelerate the advancement of women in all fields.
We were excited to honor Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman Carla Harris with the Womensphere Global Leadership Award for her powerful and creative vision, her longstanding commitment to empowering women and youth of color, and more than a dozen other great reasons. We were happy to bring together ground-breaking innovators, executives, educators, artists, and leaders creating change for women around the world – to launch some very important initiatives. The event offered a forum for sharing and co-designing global and local programs that accelerate the advancement of women and girls in America and around the world.
Womensphere Fall Summit on Creating the Future
Agenda for November 7, 2016
1:00-1:30 PM
Registration, Connecting with Discussion Co-Hosts, and Roundtable Introductions
1:30-2:10 PM
Welcome, Introductions, Context-setting & Launch
• The Leadership Gender Gap: Overview of Global, US, Cross-Industry Contexts
• Women in Leadership & Innovation: Challenges, Opportunities
• Technology-powered Leadership
• NowIsTheTime.com: Celebrating Women’s Firsts
• New Models for Leadership in the World
• Launching NewChampions5050 + Womensphere Incubator Network global initiatives
Anna Ewing – Board Member, New York Hall of Science; Angel Investor; Past CIO & EVP, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX
Dr. Valerie Barr – President, ACM-Women (Association for Computing Machinery)
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS
Analisa Leonor Balares – CEO & Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere
Drue Kataoka – Global Artist & Creator, Now is The Time
2:10 – 3:00 PM
Womensphere Global Leadership Award 2016 & Keynote
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; President, National Women’s Business Council
Advancing Women in Leadership in Business & Insights on the Journey to Executive Leadership
Plenary Discussion Panel
Angela Sun – Head of Corporate Development & Strategy, Bloomberg; Young Global Leader
Carla Harris – Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Lili Gil Valetta – CEO, XL Alliance; Young Global Leader
Mary Graham Davis – Managing Partner, Davis Bateson Group; Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 – 3:10PM Networking Break
3:10 – 4:00 PM
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Building the Pipeline of Talent & Accelerating Leadership for Women
• Insights on Advancing Women in Business & Finance
• Insights on Advancing Women in Science & Technology
• Insights on Advancing Women in Academia & Academic Leadership
• Empowering Millennials to Change the World
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation for Global Initiatives 2017
Amy Dorn Kopelan –President & Founder, Bedlam Productions; Executive Producer, Corporate State CEO Summit
Laura Cantileno – Executive, Cisco; Co-Author, Internet of Women
Dr. Gilda Barabino – Dean, Grove School of Engineering, City College New York
Aria Finger – CEO, DoSomething.org; Young Global Leader
4:00 – 4:50
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Accelerating Impact & Advancing Women's Leadership in the World
• Principles in Accelerating Impact
• Women's Leadership in the World: Driving the Sustainability & Inclusion Agenda
• Women's Innovation in the World: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Leveraging Technology to Amplify & Accelerate Impact
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation: Strategies for Accelerating Women’s Impact & Advancing Women’s
Leadership (Across Fields/Industries)
Dr. Nada Anid – Dean, School of Engineering, New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Sana Odeh – Chair & Founder, Arab Women in Computing
Dina Shoman – CEO & Founder, InHerQuests financial education company; Young Global Leader
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS; Young Global Leader
4:50 – 5:40
Synthesis & Community Solutions from Roundtable Discussions & Ideation Sessions
• Synthesis of Insights & Learnings – Community Presentations & Reflections
• Introducing: Project American Dreams
• Introducing: The Internet of Women - book and leaders
• Looking Ahead to 2017: Global Initiatives, Global Movement, Next Steps
5:40 – 6:30
Closing Networking Reception
• Community Connections between Speakers, Discussion Co-Hosts, Participants
• Connect with the Book Authors - The Internet of Women
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future
Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016
Cary Hall @ The DiMenna Center, New York City
Organization: www.womensphere.org
Festival & Summits: www.womenspherefest.com
#Womensphere #CreatingTheFuture
Luxembourg: Prime Minister Xavier Bettel
“To achieve a world where gender equality is a reality, my government is pursuing four main priorities in our government plan and also in our gender equality plan for 2015-2018. First we want to eliminate inequalities in decision-making and especially in the political and economic spheres. Luxembourg expects to implement a very robust policy in this area in order to achieve, by 2019, a minimum quota of 40 per cent of women on all executive boards in public establishments in Luxembourg. We will have 40 per cent also in the large enterprises and private businesses where women can be stakeholders and shareholders. We expect to have 40 per cent of women on candidacy lists for parties in political elections. … Men should be involved in having professional equality for men and women. Family life and professional life should not be incompatible. …It is up to us in politics to make sure that the two are compatible…so that women can do both. …[My government] is committed to ratifying the Istanbul Convention as soon as possible. …Women and girls must have access to the same [education] as men do, especially in sciences and maths. We are continuing to work to deconstruct stereotypes in the educational sphere with awareness-raising campaigns. …We must end all forms of discrimination, especially sexism. We are working [on this] at the national and international level. We are maintaining our contribution to gender equality mainstreaming [at] the UN [and]...to UN Women.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
On Saturday 12 September hundreds of young people will gather in London at The Youth Summit to help shape the future of our world.
At the end of September, world leaders will sign up to new Global GBackground
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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Broadcast journalists at work outside the UN headquarters campus, covering the general debate of the General Assembly and side events.
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Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
Photo Date: 28/09/2015
United Nations, New York
A participant at one of today's interactive dialogues creates a poster outlining the discussion on "Fostering sustainable economic growth, transformation and promoting sustainable consumption and production". These conversations are taking place as part of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda.
NICA ID: 644859
Credit: UN Photo/Amanda Voisard
Photo Date: 26/09/2015
United Nations, New York
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future: Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016 | New York City
Womensphere’s Annual Fall Summit brought together over 200 diverse leaders and emerging leaders across sectors, including executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, artists, student leaders, and leaders from civil society. Convened on the day before the 2016 US national elections, we were thrilled to be able to come together in celebration and strength, to share, discuss, ideate, and collaborate on creating the future to accelerate the advancement of women in all fields.
We were excited to honor Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman Carla Harris with the Womensphere Global Leadership Award for her powerful and creative vision, her longstanding commitment to empowering women and youth of color, and more than a dozen other great reasons. We were happy to bring together ground-breaking innovators, executives, educators, artists, and leaders creating change for women around the world – to launch some very important initiatives. The event offered a forum for sharing and co-designing global and local programs that accelerate the advancement of women and girls in America and around the world.
Womensphere Fall Summit on Creating the Future
Agenda for November 7, 2016
1:00-1:30 PM
Registration, Connecting with Discussion Co-Hosts, and Roundtable Introductions
1:30-2:10 PM
Welcome, Introductions, Context-setting & Launch
• The Leadership Gender Gap: Overview of Global, US, Cross-Industry Contexts
• Women in Leadership & Innovation: Challenges, Opportunities
• Technology-powered Leadership
• NowIsTheTime.com: Celebrating Women’s Firsts
• New Models for Leadership in the World
• Launching NewChampions5050 + Womensphere Incubator Network global initiatives
Anna Ewing – Board Member, New York Hall of Science; Angel Investor; Past CIO & EVP, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX
Dr. Valerie Barr – President, ACM-Women (Association for Computing Machinery)
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS
Analisa Leonor Balares – CEO & Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere
Drue Kataoka – Global Artist & Creator, Now is The Time
2:10 – 3:00 PM
Womensphere Global Leadership Award 2016 & Keynote
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; President, National Women’s Business Council
Advancing Women in Leadership in Business & Insights on the Journey to Executive Leadership
Plenary Discussion Panel
Angela Sun – Head of Corporate Development & Strategy, Bloomberg; Young Global Leader
Carla Harris – Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Lili Gil Valetta – CEO, XL Alliance; Young Global Leader
Mary Graham Davis – Managing Partner, Davis Bateson Group; Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 – 3:10PM Networking Break
3:10 – 4:00 PM
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Building the Pipeline of Talent & Accelerating Leadership for Women
• Insights on Advancing Women in Business & Finance
• Insights on Advancing Women in Science & Technology
• Insights on Advancing Women in Academia & Academic Leadership
• Empowering Millennials to Change the World
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation for Global Initiatives 2017
Amy Dorn Kopelan –President & Founder, Bedlam Productions; Executive Producer, Corporate State CEO Summit
Laura Cantileno – Executive, Cisco; Co-Author, Internet of Women
Dr. Gilda Barabino – Dean, Grove School of Engineering, City College New York
Aria Finger – CEO, DoSomething.org; Young Global Leader
4:00 – 4:50
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Accelerating Impact & Advancing Women's Leadership in the World
• Principles in Accelerating Impact
• Women's Leadership in the World: Driving the Sustainability & Inclusion Agenda
• Women's Innovation in the World: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Leveraging Technology to Amplify & Accelerate Impact
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation: Strategies for Accelerating Women’s Impact & Advancing Women’s
Leadership (Across Fields/Industries)
Dr. Nada Anid – Dean, School of Engineering, New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Sana Odeh – Chair & Founder, Arab Women in Computing
Dina Shoman – CEO & Founder, InHerQuests financial education company; Young Global Leader
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS; Young Global Leader
4:50 – 5:40
Synthesis & Community Solutions from Roundtable Discussions & Ideation Sessions
• Synthesis of Insights & Learnings – Community Presentations & Reflections
• Introducing: Project American Dreams
• Introducing: The Internet of Women - book and leaders
• Looking Ahead to 2017: Global Initiatives, Global Movement, Next Steps
5:40 – 6:30
Closing Networking Reception
• Community Connections between Speakers, Discussion Co-Hosts, Participants
• Connect with the Book Authors - The Internet of Women
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future
Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016
Cary Hall @ The DiMenna Center, New York City
Organization: www.womensphere.org
Festival & Summits: www.womenspherefest.com
#Womensphere #CreatingTheFuture
Background
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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Free-to-use photo
This image is posted under a Creative Commons - Attribution Licence, in accordance with the Open Government Licence. You are free to embed, download or otherwise re-use it, as long as you credit the source as 'Jessica Lea/DFID'.
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future: Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016 | New York City
Womensphere’s Annual Fall Summit brought together over 200 diverse leaders and emerging leaders across sectors, including executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, artists, student leaders, and leaders from civil society. Convened on the day before the 2016 US national elections, we were thrilled to be able to come together in celebration and strength, to share, discuss, ideate, and collaborate on creating the future to accelerate the advancement of women in all fields.
We were excited to honor Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman Carla Harris with the Womensphere Global Leadership Award for her powerful and creative vision, her longstanding commitment to empowering women and youth of color, and more than a dozen other great reasons. We were happy to bring together ground-breaking innovators, executives, educators, artists, and leaders creating change for women around the world – to launch some very important initiatives. The event offered a forum for sharing and co-designing global and local programs that accelerate the advancement of women and girls in America and around the world.
Womensphere Fall Summit on Creating the Future
Agenda for November 7, 2016
1:00-1:30 PM
Registration, Connecting with Discussion Co-Hosts, and Roundtable Introductions
1:30-2:10 PM
Welcome, Introductions, Context-setting & Launch
• The Leadership Gender Gap: Overview of Global, US, Cross-Industry Contexts
• Women in Leadership & Innovation: Challenges, Opportunities
• Technology-powered Leadership
• NowIsTheTime.com: Celebrating Women’s Firsts
• New Models for Leadership in the World
• Launching NewChampions5050 + Womensphere Incubator Network global initiatives
Anna Ewing – Board Member, New York Hall of Science; Angel Investor; Past CIO & EVP, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX
Dr. Valerie Barr – President, ACM-Women (Association for Computing Machinery)
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS
Analisa Leonor Balares – CEO & Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere
Drue Kataoka – Global Artist & Creator, Now is The Time
2:10 – 3:00 PM
Womensphere Global Leadership Award 2016 & Keynote
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; President, National Women’s Business Council
Advancing Women in Leadership in Business & Insights on the Journey to Executive Leadership
Plenary Discussion Panel
Angela Sun – Head of Corporate Development & Strategy, Bloomberg; Young Global Leader
Carla Harris – Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Lili Gil Valetta – CEO, XL Alliance; Young Global Leader
Mary Graham Davis – Managing Partner, Davis Bateson Group; Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 – 3:10PM Networking Break
3:10 – 4:00 PM
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Building the Pipeline of Talent & Accelerating Leadership for Women
• Insights on Advancing Women in Business & Finance
• Insights on Advancing Women in Science & Technology
• Insights on Advancing Women in Academia & Academic Leadership
• Empowering Millennials to Change the World
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation for Global Initiatives 2017
Amy Dorn Kopelan –President & Founder, Bedlam Productions; Executive Producer, Corporate State CEO Summit
Laura Cantileno – Executive, Cisco; Co-Author, Internet of Women
Dr. Gilda Barabino – Dean, Grove School of Engineering, City College New York
Aria Finger – CEO, DoSomething.org; Young Global Leader
4:00 – 4:50
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Accelerating Impact & Advancing Women's Leadership in the World
• Principles in Accelerating Impact
• Women's Leadership in the World: Driving the Sustainability & Inclusion Agenda
• Women's Innovation in the World: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Leveraging Technology to Amplify & Accelerate Impact
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation: Strategies for Accelerating Women’s Impact & Advancing Women’s
Leadership (Across Fields/Industries)
Dr. Nada Anid – Dean, School of Engineering, New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Sana Odeh – Chair & Founder, Arab Women in Computing
Dina Shoman – CEO & Founder, InHerQuests financial education company; Young Global Leader
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS; Young Global Leader
4:50 – 5:40
Synthesis & Community Solutions from Roundtable Discussions & Ideation Sessions
• Synthesis of Insights & Learnings – Community Presentations & Reflections
• Introducing: Project American Dreams
• Introducing: The Internet of Women - book and leaders
• Looking Ahead to 2017: Global Initiatives, Global Movement, Next Steps
5:40 – 6:30
Closing Networking Reception
• Community Connections between Speakers, Discussion Co-Hosts, Participants
• Connect with the Book Authors - The Internet of Women
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future
Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016
Cary Hall @ The DiMenna Center, New York City
Organization: www.womensphere.org
Festival & Summits: www.womenspherefest.com
#Womensphere #CreatingTheFuture
During a 3-day symposium, ESCP Europe Master in Management students had the chance to work on their individual career plans.
50 professionals from business and civil society helped the students to discover their strengths and motivation, to reflect on personal, entrepreneurial and societal goals, and to work on concrete next steps for successful life planning.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations were the core of this year's event. In workshops, the students came up with ideas on how to reach the 17 Global Goals by 2030 and reflect on their personal impact.
Youth activists Fahma Mohamed and Hamda Mohamed meet former Development Secretary Justine Greening to share their support for the Global Goals of reducing inequality, improving gender equality and supporting good jobs and growth.
Background
On 12 September 2015 hundreds of young people came together at the #YouthSummit in London to raise their voices about the future of their world.
September also sees the largest-ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York to sign up to new Global Goals that aim to eradicate poverty for good.
The Youth Summit gave young people a chance to get their voices heard on the global issues they care about. They have the power, commitment and energy to make sure the world delivers on promises made in New York.
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Chile: President Michelle Bachelet
“The Chilean Government … is implementing a Labour Training Programme. We hope to train 300,000 women for highly skilled jobs, together with our programmes to empower women entrepreneurs. When it comes to collective negotiation, we want to improve the ability of women to negotiate as workers, including organizations representing the labour force in such a way that the gender focus can reduce the wage gap between men and women. … We implemented a national action plan against violence against women and we have more centres to welcome women who are the victims of abuse. We’ve also started programmes to train community leaders and government officials to prevent and halt violence against women. We also have a bill [to decriminalize] abortion when the mother’s life is in danger, or the fetus might be seriously compromised after birth, [or for] pregnancy as a result of rape. … But for gender equality to be effective, we also have to look at the decision-making area, in social and political spheres. The new Chilean electoral system, which we approved in January this year, for the first time has a quota system whereby at least 40 per cent of the candidates standing for Parliament must be women. We have problems with people complying, so we have put forward two incentives: firstly any party which does not have 40 per cent of women standing cannot register any candidate; secondly, parties [presenting] women [candidates] will receive economic incentives … to comply with the law. ... My Government has also taken steps so that by 2018 we will have 40 per cent of women directing public enterprises. We’re also looking [to ensure there] is equality, empowerment and solidarity between spouses.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The United Nations and Mattel, Inc., launched a collaboration at New York Headquarters today to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals to pre‑school audiences through the animated children’s series Thomas & Friends.
Through the collaboration, elements from 5 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are incorporated into nine of the 26 episodes of the new season of Thomas & Friends, which premieres on Nick Jr. in the United States today, with global roll-out in the coming months. The specific targets represented in the episodic content are Goal 4 on Quality Education; Goal 5 on Gender Equality; Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities; Goal 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production; and Goal 15 on Life on Land.
Pictured: Media Briefing at UNHQ with Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka UN Women’s Africa Programme Adviser; Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division at the United Nations Department of Public Information, Richard Dickson, President and COO of Mattel
Fondation CHANEL and UN Women announced today a three-year programme to accelerate rural women’s economic empowerment, many facing the brunt of climate change, in South and East Asia by addressing the barriers women entrepreneurs commonly face through business skills training, financial services and support networks of peers and mentors.
With an investment of USD 3 million, Fondation CHANEL–in line with its mission and commitment to gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—will support UN Women’s programming in China, Nepal and Viet Nam. The initiatives will support a range of actions from promoting laws and policies that provide women protection and equal rights at a policy level, to employment and income-generating opportunities for women.
Pictured: UN Women Deputy Executive Director Asa Regner and Chanel Foundation Executive Director Miren Bengoa
Read more: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/9/press-release-fond...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
The United Nations and Mattel, Inc., launched a collaboration at New York Headquarters today to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals to pre‑school audiences through the animated children’s series Thomas & Friends.
Through the collaboration, elements from 5 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are incorporated into nine of the 26 episodes of the new season of Thomas & Friends, which premieres on Nick Jr. in the United States today, with global roll-out in the coming months. The specific targets represented in the episodic content are Goal 4 on Quality Education; Goal 5 on Gender Equality; Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities; Goal 12 on Responsible Consumption and Production; and Goal 15 on Life on Land.
On 7 September at UN Headquarters the UN and Thomas & Friends co-hosted a roundtable event to bring awareness to the importance of inspiring the next generation of global citizens, starting at an early age.
Panelists included:
Olivia Wilde, Actress, Filmmaker, Activist, Mother
Pamela S. Falk, UN Resident Correspondent CBS News and Radio
Tolulope Lewis-Tamoka UN Women’s Africa Programme Adviser
Maher Nasser, Director of the Outreach Division at the United Nations Department of Public Information
Richard Dickson, President and COO of Mattel
Ian McCue, Senior Producer of Thomas & Friends
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Cyprus: President Nicos Anastasiades
“Cyprus … has come a long way in the promotion of gender equality, the empowerment and the realization of the human rights for women and child[ren] and girls through a number of concrete measures and policies. However, a lot remains to be done and we reaffirm our commitment to this end. My Government adopted the new national action plan on equality between women and men for 2014-2017 which is the [flagship] of our national policies for gender equality. We also reaffirm our commitment to the relevant legal action plans and directives, and all relevant international instruments combatting all forms of violence against women. Promoting economic empowerment and eliminating deeply rooted stereotypes among gender roles are among our priorities. Another area of concern in my Government is combatting trafficking in human beings, with the core of our policies being the protection of victims, mostly women and children. I would like also to announce that we are ready to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence. The role of women in the promotion of reconciliation and peace is invaluable. …A technical committee on gender equality has [already been established]. Concluding, I wish to express the strong willingness of my country to contribute to the full implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.”
World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...
Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown