Event recording: Generation Equality Forum: an opportunity for governments, multilaterals, and civil society to advance Gender Equality and achieve the SDGs
On 9th June 2021, the APPG held a joint event with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security to discuss the interconnectedness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
The event linked the SDGs and the WPS agenda, with a specific focus on the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) which will culminate in Paris in June-July 2021. The event was an opportunity to learn more about the GEF, its Action Coalitions and Compact which will be launched at the Forum, hear from a country examples, discuss intersecting issues such as how climate and economic factors impact on gender equality, and closely examine how multilaterals and Governments can work with civil society to achieve the SDGs and work on WPS.
The event was held in collaboration with Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) which provides the secretariat for the APPG-WPS.
Speakers:
Sarah Douglas, Deputy Chief of Peace and Security, UN Women
Amani Aruri, member of the Karama network
Marguerite Moleux, Counsellor for Health, Social Affairs and the Gender focal point at the French Embassy
Mr. Muhammad Zulqar Nain, Acting Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK
The event was co-chaired by Baroness Hodgson of Abinger CBE, Co-Chair of the APPG on Women, Peace and Security and Theo Clarke MP, Chair of the APPG on the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development