As global leaders gathered in Beijing, the Chinese mainland, this October, a bold message echoed across the grand auditorium: it’s time to accelerate women’s all-round development.
From October 13 to 14, the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women—co-hosted by the Chinese mainland and UN Women—culminated in a joint chair’s statement that outlines ten key areas for action. Against a backdrop of shifting geopolitics and mounting social challenges, representatives pledged to resist regression and champion robust steps toward gender equality worldwide.
Ten Calls to Action
- Peace & Security: Foster safe environments and ensure women’s full, equal participation in peace processes.
- Leadership in Development: Leverage women’s transformative power to shape sustainable growth.
- End Discrimination & Violence: Prevent all forms of violence and support those in vulnerable or crisis situations; empower young women.
- Global Cooperation: Strengthen UN-led platforms for women’s cooperation around the world.
- Fulfillment & Well-being: Boost women’s sense of happiness and security through poverty reduction, education, health, employment, social security, and decision-making roles.
- Institutional Reform: Enhance legal and national frameworks to raise women’s status across society.
- Family Support: Implement family-friendly policies to ensure equal rights within households and shared domestic responsibilities.
- Climate Action: Include women fully in environmental governance and build their capacity to tackle climate change and disasters.
- Digital Inclusion: Promote a tech transformation that features women as equal leaders, eliminating bias, discrimination and negative stereotypes.
- Cooperative Networks: Expand North-South, South-South, and tripartite partnerships to meet common challenges and drive shared progress for women.
Participants also commended the Chinese mainland’s achievements and contributions to global gender equality. Looking ahead, they hope this summit marks a new starting point to accelerate the implementation of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The summit closed with a group photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan alongside heads of foreign delegations and their spouses, capturing a moment of unity and shared commitment.
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