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On 29 September, diverse actors convened against the backdrop of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly to unveil and celebrate the impressive list of Generation Equality Commitment Makers, who have made over 1,000 commitments to advance gender equality, and to discuss strategies to ensure the robust execution and global accountability of these commitments over the coming five years.

Generation Equality: Don't side-line older women! 06/05/2021 After the first meeting of the UN Generation Equality Campaign in Mexico, HelpAge is appealing to leaders, civil society and feminist movements not to side-line older women if they want to achieve the desired progress towards gender equality.   This first meeting, held at the end of March, made positive calls for the inclusion of diverse voices and recognised the need to tackle multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination during discussions on economic justice and rights. But older women’s issues were not explicitly pa...

We’re done talking: the blueprints launched today start work right now Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 [As delivered] Excellencies, distinguished guests, friends, Generation Equality fearless feminists of the world, do you want change? When do you want it? This Forum is deliberately breaking up the ‘old normal’. I want to start by thanking those of us who are joining us in this ‘new normal’. In this Forum, we were joined by at least 10,000 women who registered formally or who followed us on other channels, including YouTube. Women and girls of all ages, r...