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The Generation Equality Forum is a civil society–centred, global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. Kicking off in Mexico City, Mexico, and culminating in Paris, France, in the first half of 2021, the Forum will launch a set of concrete, ambitious, and transformative actions to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality.

Twenty-five years after the historic Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most comprehensive blueprint to achieve women’s empowerment and gender equality, the Forum will take stock of progress and chart an agenda of concrete actions to accelerate progress towards gender equality before 2030.

The Forum will be a global public conversation for urgent action and accountability for gender equality, celebrating the power of women’s rights activism, feminist solidarity and youth leadership to achieve transformative change. It will be connected in real-time across the world through interactive satellite sessions enabled through technology to maximize participation.

The Forum will reaffirm the value of multilateralism and bring together the leadership and participation of various stakeholders - civil society, governments, business, cities, parliaments, trade unions, media and more - focusing on intergenerational and multi-stakeholder partnerships. The key outcomes of the Forum will be a feminist agenda-setting and the launch of ‘Action Coalitions’, which are concrete partnerships for scaled-up and urgent action, focused on critical issues to achieve gender equality. The Forum will result in a collective agenda-setting and mobilization moment for accountability for gender equality.