By: Joanne Lu on June 29, 2021 On Wednesday, tens of thousands of people from around the world will gather in Paris and online for UN Women’s Generation Equality Forum to kick off five years of action toward gender equality. According to organizers, the Forum is the “most significant global feminist movement since 1995, when leaders gathered in Beijing to launch the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.” Co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the three-day event will address the gaps from the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, slow progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 5 (gender equality), the rest of the SDGs and new challenges created by the pandemic.