HIGH–LEVEL MEETING ON THE OCCASION OF THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN
ACCELERATING THE REALIZATION OF GENDER EQUALITY AND
THE EMPOWERMENT OF ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS
Thursday 1st October 2020
09:00 – 19:00
| United Nations Headquarters, New York 09:00 – 10:00 Opening Segment:
A Global History of Women’s Rights Video Statements by: • • H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations • • H.E. Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations • • H.E. Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China • • Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucka, Executive Director of United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) • • Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund • • Ms. Hilary Gbedemah, Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women • • Ms. Elizabeth Broderick, Chair of the Working Group of the Human Rights Council on discrimination against women and girls • • Ms. Dubravka Šimonovic, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences • • Ms. Nomzamo Mbatha, Eminent High-Level Champion of Gender Equality • • Ms. Sascha Gabizon, Representative of Civil Society • • Ms. Ixchel Adolfo, Young Women Leader
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| 25 Years of Progress and Promises for Women’s Rights Video
10:00 – 18:50 Plenary segment: Statements from Member States and Observer States 18:50 – 19:00 Closing segment: Pre-recorded spoken word piece, We Do Not Wait Tomorrow, by Ms. Soré Agbaje Closing statement by H.E. Mr. Volkan Bozkir, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations |
GENERAL ASSEMBLY HIGH-LEVEL MEETING ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN
Thursday, 1 October 2020
General Assembly Hall
Provisional list of Speakers [Updated on 29 September]
Requests from delegations who had indicated their wish to introduce the speakers in the pre-recorded videos by a representative who is physically present in the GA Hall in response to the letter by the President of the General Assembly dated 22 September 2020, are indicated in italic
Full list attached.
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1.
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EUROPEAN UNION | Her Excellency Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission |
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3.
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC | His Excellency Emmanuel Macron
President |
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5.
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THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND | His Excellency Sauli Niinistö
President |
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33.
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THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY | Her Excellency Erna Solberg
Prime Minister |
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34.
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THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN | His Excellency Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón
Prime Minister |
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37.
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THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN | His Excellency Stefan Löfven
Prime Minister |
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38.
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THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK | Her Excellency Mette Frederiksen
Prime Minister |
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40.
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THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY | Her Excellency Angela Merkel
Chancellor |
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41.
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THE REPUBLIC OF ICELAND | Her Excellency Katrin Jakobsdottir
Prime Minister |
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43.
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THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM | Her Excellency Sophie Wilmès
Prime Minister |
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45.
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THE REPUBLIC OF ITALY | His Excellency Giuseppe Conte
Prime Minister |
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56.
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DENMARK (ON BEHALF OF A GROUP OF COUNTRIES) | His Excellency Mogens Jensen
Minister for Equal Opportunities |
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57.
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NETHERLANDS | Her Excellency Sigrid Kaag
Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation |
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58.
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PORTUGAL | Her Excellency Mariana Vieira da Silva
Minister of State for the Presidency |
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67.
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CZECH REPUBLIC | Her Excellency Jana Maláčová
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs |
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74.
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LUXEMBOURG | His Excellency Jean Asselborn
Minister for Foreign Affairs |
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87.
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IRELAND | His Excellency Simon Coveney
Minister for Foreign Affairs |
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108.
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CYPRUS | His Excellency Nikos Christodoulides
Minister for Foreign Affairs |
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111.
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ANDORRA | His Excellency Víctor Filloy Franco
Minister of Social Affairs, Housing and Youth |
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114.
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MALTA | His Excellency Evarist Bartolo
Minister for Foreign and European Affairs |
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124.
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GREECE | His Excellency Nikolaos Dendias
Minister for Foreign Affairs |
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143.
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UNITED KINGDOM | His Excellency Dominic Raab
First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs |
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148.
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POLAND | Her Excellency Anna Schmidt-Rodziewicz
State Secretary in the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy and Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment |
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153.
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MONACO | Her Excellency Isabelle Rosabrunetto Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs | |||||
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167.
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SAN MARINO | ||||||
| Observer States
171.
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STATE OF PALESTINE | Her Excellency Amal Hamad
Minister of Women’s Affairs |
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172.
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HOLY SEE | Her Excellency Francesca Di Giovanni
Under-Secretary for the Multilateral Sector |
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| Observers
173.
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INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION | ||||||
Per Saperne di più: https://www.un.org/pga/75/2020/09/29/high-level-meeting-on-the-twenty-fifth-anniversary-of-the-fourth-world-conference-on-women/