Expert group meeting: Beijing+30: Emerging issues and future directions for gender equality and women’s rights

UN Women convened a virtual expert group meeting (EGM) on 13–15 August 2024 in preparation for the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which will focus on the review and appraisal of the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly held in 2000.

Report [forthcoming]
Concept note
Programme of work and presentation titles
Participants and biographies

Expert papers [forthcoming]

Gladys Acosta Vargas, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 2015–2022)
“States international responsibility”
Zainah Anwar, Musawah
“Law reform amidst gender backlash and democratic backsliding”
Laisa Bulatale, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement
“Pacific feminist approaches to ensure effective accountability: Sharing from our small Pacific Island States”
Ayesha Constable, Young People for Action on Climate Change Jamaica
“Gender justice is climate justice: Promoting gender equality and securing the rights of women and girls in a worsening climate crisis”
Ahmed Dahmani, Civil Coalition for Gender-Sensitive Budgeting in Morocco
“Accès équitable aux finances publiques pour un contrat social garantissant les droits et l’égalité : l’expérience marocaine”
Beverley Palesa Ditsie, LGBTIQA+ Activist
“This revolution must be televised: Utilizing media to resist the deliberate symbolic annihilation of feminist and queer narratives that challenge dominant discourses”
Hija Kamran, Association for Progressive Communication
Happy Mwende Kinyili, Mama Cash
Mama Koité Doumbia, Platform of Women Leaders of Mali
“Réflexions et bilan sur les principaux domaines de progrès, de lacunes et des défis en matière d’égalité des sexes et des droits humains des femmes au cours des 30 dernières années”
Esther Mwaura Muiru, Stand for Her Land [S4HL] Campaign
Ayshka Najib, Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice and Young Feminist Caucus
Verónica Serafini, LATINDADD and CADEP
Tulika Srivastava, IWRAW Asia Pacific
Edita Tahiri, Regional Women’s Lobby in South Eastern Europe
Prabhleen Tuteja, The YP foundation
Paola Yañez Inofuentes, Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women
Cai Yiping, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era