The 2016 theme for International Women’s Day is “Planet
50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality”. The United Nations
observance on 8 March will reflect on how to accelerate the 2030
Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the
new Sustainable Development Goals. It will equally
focus on new commitments under UN Women’s Step It Up initiative, and other existing
commitments on gender equality, women’s empowerment and women’s human rights.
Events
The official UN commemoration will take place in
the Trusteeship Council at the UN Secretariat in New York City from 10
a.m.-12.45 p.m. It will consist of a series of musical performances and two
panel discussions. The first, from 10-11.15 a.m., will reflect on what a
gender-equal planet means and how to achieve it by 2030 by joining the efforts
of the United Nations, governments, civil society and the private sector. For
the second panel, entitled “The Push for Parity”, panelists will probe the
progress made in achieving gender equality in the UN system, examine the challenges
remaining and unpack how to mainstream gender perspectives from 11.15
a.m.–12.45 p.m. See the flyer.
Watch the live webcast here,
from 10 a.m.-12.45 p.m. on 8 March!
Also on 8 March, Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi
Puri will ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in New York at 9
a.m. Similar events will take place in 34 countries around the world as part of
joint awareness-raising efforts with the Global Compact.
Around the world, UN Women is organizing
International Women’s Day events in more than 40 countries, including: a
friendly hockey match between a men’s and women’s team in Tanzania on 5 March;
a march and cycling rally in New Delhi, India on 6 March; a festival with live
musical and dance performances in Palestine on 8 March; marches, a football
match and painting expositions across Albania from 5-8 March; and a women’s
“run to Step It Up” in São Paulo, Brazil on 20 March—to name just a few.
Speeches
and messages
“We have shattered so many glass ceilings we created a carpet of shards. Now we are sweeping away the assumptions and bias of the past so women can advance across new frontiers,” says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for International Women’s Day 2016.
“Each one of us is needed—in our countries, communities, organizations, governments and in the United Nations—to ensure decisive, visible and measurable actions are taken under the banner: Planet 50-50: Step It Up for Gender Equality,” says UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka in her message.
- See more at:
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/international-womens-day#sthash.ds5MW8FV.dpuf
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