Expert Group Meeting: Beijing +25: Current context, emerging issues and prospects for gender equality and women’s rights

UN Women will convene an Expert Group Meeting in New York City on 25-26 September 2019 in preparation for the sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which will focus on the review and appraisal of progress made in implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action over the last 25 years.

• Report
• Concept Note
• Agenda and participants
• Participant biographies and paper abstracts

Background Papers

• Conny Roggeband, University of Amsterdam
  Andrea Krizsan, Center for Policy Studies, Central European University
  Democratic backsliding and backlash against women’s rights: Understanding the current challenges for feminist politics
• Judy Wajcman, London School of Economics (LSE)
  The digital revolution: Implications for gender equality and women’s rights 25 years after Beijing
• Maxine Molyneux et al., University College London (UCL) Institute of the Americas
  New Feminist Activism, Waves and Generations

Expert papers

• Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change
  A feminist manifesto for digitality: Issues in the frame
• Anne Marie Goetz, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
  Rob Jenkins, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
  The WPS Agenda 25 Years After Beijing
• Cai Yiping, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
  The rise of the South: Implications for women's rights
• Felogene Anumo, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
  Our Ancestors Wildest Dreams? Young feminists uphold the visionary potential of Beijing!
• Flávia Biroli, University of Brasilia
  The crisis of democracy and the backlash against gender
• G. Arunima, Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  Gendering Democracy: Necessity and Challenges
• Gita Sen, Public Health Foundation of India
  The changing landscape of feminist organizing since Beijing
• Hanan Tabbara, Women, Peace, and Security and Humanitarian Action Independent Consultant
  What Invisibility Reveals: Reflections on Women’s Participation in Peace, Security, and Humanitarian Action in West Asia
• Jacqui True, Monash GPS Centre, Monash University
  The Women, Peace and Security Agenda 25 years After Beijing: What Difference Could a Feminist Political Economy Perspective Make?
• Joni Seager, Bentley University
  Gender Equality and Environmental Sustainability in the Age of Crisis
• Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  The use of biometric technology in social protection systems. A gender perspective
• Ruth Milkman, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
  Gender, Intersectionality and Social Movements in the USA: A New Political Generation
• Sibongile Ndashe, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa
  Opportunities, challenges and strategies for progress on gender equality from the perspective of human rights activism in sub-Saharan Africa, and reflections on growing inequalities between different groups of women 
• Yasmine Ergas, Columbia University
  Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: The Pushback and Its Implications