Virtual | Women4Mediterranean Conference 2020: Accelerating gender equality in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

? 17– 19 November 2020
Barcelona, Spain

Coinciding with the 25th Anniversary of the Barcelona Process adopted in 1995, and the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and its Platform for Action, the Women Conference this year was intended to serve as a milestone to appraise and take stock of what has been achieved so far over the past 25 years and to learn from what has worked out and to further identify what areas still require improvement.

However, COVID-19 pandemic has changed the scenario. The pandemic is deepening pre-existing gender inequalities, exposing vulnerabilities in social, political, and economic systems which are in turn amplifying the impacts of the pandemic on women and girls’ lives.

The Conference seeks to further analyze the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women and girls and to highlight the key role played by women in addressing the pandemic. It also aims to identify what is needed to better value the role of women and foster women’s participation in policy and decision-making to address the pandemic. The Conference will be a great occasion to launch the UfM Institutional Ministerial follow-up mechanism and its indicators, which will be adopted this year by the UfM Member States and will allow to monitor and measure for the coming years gender equality progress in the region and provide policy and action-oriented recommendation to close the gender gap.

Conference Themes:

• Women on the frontline of Covid-19
• Women economic participation and the impact of Covid-19
• Ending violence against women (VAWG)

Original source: UfM
Published on 22 July 2020