The 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). The session will focus on the review and appraisal of the Beijing Declaration, including a review of the current challenges affecting its implementation and its contribution to the 2030 Agenda. States can present national-level reviews of their progress since 1995, and are likely to include future plans and commitments to accelerate implementation at this level, focused on financial, legal and digital equality.
The Generation Equality Forum is a civil society–centred, multi-stakeholder, global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. As a global public conversation for urgent action and accountability for gender equality, the Forum will celebrate the power of women’s rights activism, feminist solidarity, and youth leadership to achieve transformative change. The outcome of the Forum will be overall, a feminist agenda setting space and specifically, the setting up of Action Coalitions - an urgent, joint action agenda by a group of committed stakeholders. This will be taken to the General Assembly in 2020.
Created to tackle hunger and malnutrition, the fund will hold its first replenishment event, seeking $1.5 billion.
The International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) is the world’s premier global forum for bringing together heads of state, civil society, the private sector and more to tackle the increasingly sophisticated challenges posed by corruption. The theme this year is Designing 2030: Truth, Trust & Transparency.
A meeting at which representatives from all member states of the United Nations will finalise the negotiations of the first ever international treaty to protect life in the High Seas - the two thirds of the world’s oceans which lie beyond 200-nautical miles from the coast of any given country. Currently, the High Seas have little legal protection, and are subject to pollution, deep-sea mining and overfishing.
A pledging conference to raise funds for the Vaccine Alliance, to support GAVI programs vaccinating children from against preventable diseases between 2021-2025. The last GAVI Replenishment in 2015 raised $7.5 billion for the 2016-2020, and the UK Government is currently GAVI’s biggest donor, providing around 25% of its funding. The aim is for full replenishment of at least $7.4 billion to fund a crucial vaccine programme for the world’s poorest countries in an effort to save between seven and eight million lives between 2021 and 2025.
The theme of the 4th International Conference on Global Food Security will be 'Achieving local and global food security: at what costs?'
The 46th G7 summit will be held in the United States, while it holds the presidency.
The fourth International Conference on Global Food Security will address food security at all levels, from local to global, and from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. It will explore the triple burden of malnutrition: hunger, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity. The Conference will bring together stakeholders from key sectors – scientists and academics, civil society, the private sector and policy makers.
An invitation-only forum hosted by the Canada Revenue Agency, that brings together government officials, heads of tax and financial crime agencies, and investigators and prosecutors to discuss, share and connect on a global response to the issues of tax and other financial crimes.
