The UN’s Women’s HeForShe Summit, scheduled to take place this week, is calling on all men to act now to achieve gender equality.
Scheduled to take place on 21 September, the summit will bring together global leaders to showcase good practices to advance gender equality and inspire others to follow suit this week. The HeForShe initiative is a global movement that invites men and boys as allies to complement the work of the women’s movement.
Its flagship programme, the HeForShe Alliance, convenes male leaders from across government, business, non-profit and academia to take urgent action for gender equality; against the context of conflict, climate change, humanitarian crises and the global pandemic – all of which have significantly reversed advances made in achieving gender equality. This year’s summit will show a diverse range of actions several allies are implementing to achieve gender equality, from equal representation to global domestic violence policies.
GENDER EQUALITY SPEAKERS
This event will be hosted by Taylor Nicole Rogers, the US labour and equality correspondent at the Financial Times. Other speakers include:
- Sima Bahous, Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director, UN Women
- HE Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine
- Hisayuki Idekoba, CEO, Recruit Holdings
- C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing Director, HCL Technologies
- Ralph Mupita, President and CEO, MTN Group
- Wangechi Wachira, Executive Director, Centre for Rights Education and Awareness
- Bob Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC
- Åsa Regnér, Deputy Executive Director of Policy, Programme, Civil Society and Intergovernmental Support, UN Women
- Sanda Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary-General and CEO of the United Nations Global Compact
- Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director for UN Coordination, Partnerships, Resources and Sustainability, UN Women
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