Network For Gender Equality | International Gender Champions

I am happy to be an International Gender Champion. I encourage other senior leaders to be part of this campaign for equality.

António Guterres

Secretary-General, United Nations

The statistics speak for us: today women with equal competence with their male counterparts earn less than them, we are very little present in the management or on the Board of Directors of the large CAC40...

Laura Faxas

Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Embassy and Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic in Austria

I am pleased to join and contribute to the International Gender Champions Initiative. Achieving gender equality and women empowerment in all spheres of our society should be our common objective.

Alessandro Cortese

Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Italy to the International Organizations in Vienna

The UN's work in crisis prevention must be based on the principle of inclusion of all segments of the society, most critically women.

Ana Maria Menéndez

Secretary-General’s Senior Advisor on Policy, United Nations

“We should strive to reach a time – without prevarication or delay – where gender parity and gender equality are so engrained in us and in human society that no comment is needed.

Karim A.A. Khan QC

Prosecutor, International Criminal Court

Hillary Clinton declared at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights: "Human rights...

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly

Director, Professor, Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights (GCBHR) and NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

We have no other option than to walk the talk if we are serious about gender equality in daily life.

Salman Bal

Director, Ambassador, Centre d'Accueil de la Genève Internationale

Fifty per cent of the population warrants the same visibility as the other fifty percent.

Université Senghor et Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF): lancement de la formation en ligne « L’Égalité femmes-hommes : un principe pour la francophonie ; une priorité du développement durable pour un monde plus juste»

L’Unité Egalité Femmes Hommes (UEFH) de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) porte à ton attention le lancement de la prochaine formation en ligne « L’Égalité femmes-hommes : un principe pour la francophonie ; une priorité du développement durable pour un monde plus juste ».

Chaque semaine de cours est structurée par : des vidéos thématiques faisant intervenir des experts, des documents d’apprentissages, diverses ressources complémentaires (liens Web, etc.) et un quiz d’évaluation.

October 03, 2022 @ 00:00

Storytelling and Gender-based Violence - A Podcast with Evelyn A. Ankumah of Africa Legal Aid

In this podcast, Evelyn A. Ankumah, Executive Director of Africa Legal Aid a “woman-initiated, woman-led” and pan-African NGO based in IGC-Den Haag hub, talks about her commitment to ensuring that women everywhere, including women of colour, can come forward with their own stories of gendered violence and discrimination and how IGC GBV Pledge support these endeavours

Putting Gender Equality at The Centre of Recovery and Transformation

After navigating more than two years of a global pandemic, billions of people are now facing the greatest cost-of-living crisis in a generation. The fallout for women and girls has been severe.

Leadership Exchange with Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand

On 21 April 2022, the Council of Women World Leaders and International Gender Champions co-hosted a leadership exchange with the former Prime Minister of New Zealand and a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, H.E. Helen Clark, on the role women play in developing successful climate policies.

UN News: Guterres vows to improve UN's handling of sexual exploitation and abuse

The COVID-19 pandemic has created conditions making it easier for vulnerable people to become victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

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