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In lead up to Generation Equality Forum, Action Coalition themes announced</h1>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Date: </span>Wednesday, January 15, 2020</p>
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Today, UN Women, together with feminists across the world, and the Governments of Mexico and France, announced the <a href="https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/get%20involved/beijing-25/generation-equality-forum/generation-equality-actioncoalitions.pdf?la=en&vs=2127" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 157, 220); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">Action
Coalition</a> themes for the <a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/beijing-plus-25/generation-equality-forum" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 157, 220); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">Generation
Equality Forum</a> to be held in Mexico City and Paris this year.</p>
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The Action Coalitions are global, innovative partnerships with governments, civil society, international organizations, and the private sector, to catalyze collective action, drive increased public and private investment, and deliver game-changing results for
women and girls everywhere.</p>
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The Generation Equality Forum, a civil society-led global gathering convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the Governments of Mexico and France, taking place in Mexico City from 7 to 8 May, and in Paris from 7 to 10 July 2020, will launch the following six catalytic
Action Coalitions:</p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Gender-Based Violence</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Economic justice and rights</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Feminist action for climate justice</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology and innovation for gender equality</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Feminist movements and leadership</span></li></ol>
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The six themes were based on data-driven analysis and selected in consultation with international feminist groups, grassroots activist organizations, governments and other partners.</p>
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The Generation Equality Forum is taking place in the context of the <a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/beijing-plus-25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 157, 220); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">25<sup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit;">th</sup> anniversary
of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,</a> the most comprehensive blueprint for achieving gender equality and women’s rights, adopted by 189 countries in 1995. Despite some progress, real change has been slow, and no country has achieved gender
equality.As the world faces unprecedented challenges, including climate crisis, rising inequality and threat to multilateralism, progress on girls’ and women’s rights is at risk.</p>
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The Action Coalitions, backed with financing and impactful partnerships, aim to make accelerated and irreversible progress to advance gender equality.</p>
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Each Action Coalition will be led by a group of partners, including: Member States, women’s movements and civil society organizations and the private sector, as well as UN agencies, other international organizations and youth leaders. </p>
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Adolescent girls and young women are at the heart of Generation Equality, lifting up those who have been silenced, stigmatized and shamed far too long, and ensuring that no one is left behind. One of the concrete actions in each Action Coalition theme will
specifically target the unique needs of adolescent girls and young women. </p>
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Each Coalition will develop and implement targeted solutions that advance the rights of adolescent girls and young women during the <a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/decade-of-action/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 157, 220); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">UN
Decade of Action</a> (2020 – 2030) to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals.</p>
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In the coming months, the formation of Action Coalition leadership and membership will be advanced, as well as the development of “Blueprints” accompanying each Action Coalition, which will detail the expected goals, results, budget, a catalogue of commitments
and the accountability framework.The upcoming <a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/csw64-2020" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 157, 220); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">UN
Commission on the Status of Women</a> (9 – 20 March) and the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico (7-8 May) will provide opportunities for partners to come together and further elaborate upon the Action Coalition Blueprints.</p>
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The Action Coalitions will be officially launched during the Generation Equality Forum from 7 to10 July in Paris, and further amplified at the UN General Assembly in September 2020. </p>
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For more information on Generation Equality Forum and the Action Coalitions, <a href="https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/get%20involved/beijing-25/generation-equality-forum/generation-equality-actioncoalitions.pdf?la=en&vs=2127" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 157, 220); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">click
here</a>. Get involved and join the global campaign, #<a href="https://trello.com/b/5zuLFXZ1/generation-equality" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 157, 220); text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;">GenerationEquality</a> to
make gender equality a reality within our lifetimes.</p>
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