International Women’s Day 2020, March 8, will be themed “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights.” The campaign draws attention to the fact that despite progress, change has been slow for most women and girls around the world. 2020 will be an extremely important year for advancing gender equality, as it will be the year when the international community will assess progress on women’s rights.
The aim will be to bring together the next generations of women and girls leaders and gender equality activists and visionaries of women’s rights who were instrumental in creating the Beijing Platform for Action. For the UN, “the fundamental transformation in Beijing was the recognition of the need to shift the focus from women to the concept of gender, recognizing that the entire structure of society, and all relations between men and women within it, had to be reassessed. Only through this fundamental restructuring of society and its institutions could women be fully empowered to take their rightful place.”
