Gender-Based Violence in a COVID-19 Context | UNGA 75 High-Level Side Event
UN Women is hosting a high-level side event to highlight progress made on tackling gender-based violence in the context of COVID-19, and to activate the UN Secretary-General engagement strategy on gender-based violence. The event organized on the margins of the 75th United Nations General Assembly will also profile the Generation Equality Forum Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence (one of the themes of the six Action Coalitions), with a strong, vibrant, and results-driven constituency of fifteen leaders from Member States, civil society, the private sector, philanthropies, and international organizations, and its potential to drive change and achieve concrete impact in the coming five years.
Participants at the meeting, including champion Member States, grassroots activists, civil society organizations, as well as young leaders, will also discuss collective responses, innovative partnerships and proven policies solutions to ending violence against women in a COVID-19 world, including invaluable support and adapted measures provided by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women.
Participants include Mr. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General; Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director; Ms. Henrietta H. Fore, UNICEF’s Executive Director, Baroness Liz Sugg, Minister for Foreign and Development Affairs and Special Envoy for Girls’ Education of the United Kingdom; Ms. Cecilia Chacón Castillo, Minister for Human Rights of Ecuador; Ms. Mereseini Vuniwaqa, Minister of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation of Fiji; Ms. Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner in charge of international partnerships; Ms. Helena Dalli, European Commissioner in charge of Gender Equality; Ms. Elisabeth Moreno, Minister Delegate for Gender Equality, Diversity and Equal Opportunities of France; Ms. Martha Delgado Peralta, Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico; Ms. Ann Bernes, Ambassador for Gender Equality and Coordinator of Feminist Foreign Policy; Ms. Rachel Shebesh, Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service and Gender of Kenya; Ms. Celine Bonnaire, Executive Director of the Kering Foundation; Ms. Nicolette Naylor, International Program Director, Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Justice of the Ford Foundation; Ms. Ghida Anani, founder and manager of ABAAD – Resource Centre for Gender Equality; Ms. Kalpana Viswanath, Co-Founder and CEO of Safetipin; Ms. Zahra Al Hilaly, Youth Affairs Council, Ms. Rashmi Singh, International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care, India.
