Summary
The event will showcase Spotlight Initiative’s impact, driving additional political and financial resources to end violence against women and girls and deliver on the SDGs.
Description
The draft Pact for the Future, which underpins the Summit of the Future, recognizes the need to “promote gender equality and empower and protect all women and girls as essential prerequisites to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.” This includes taking “targeted and accelerated action to eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls.”
This high-level event will bring together a range of leaders and partners to secure commitments that ensure the wider ending violence against women and girls agenda is adequately resourced to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Side Event organized by: Belgium, Ecuador, Sierra Leone, European Union, World Bank
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To generate additional opportunities for the engagement of all actors, the Secretary-General of the United Nations is convening the Summit of the Future Action Days on 20 and 21 September 2024 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Bringing together representatives from Member States, civil society, private sector, academia, local and regional authorities, youth, and many more, the Action Days will provide an opportunity for broad engagement and inclusion. These stakeholders have all played a key role in shaping the Pact for the Future and will be critical to its implementation.
Side events provide further insights and opportunities for multi-stakeholder collaboration.