In a recent essay published in The Atlantic, Hillary Clinton recounts the moments that led to her speech to the 1,500 delegates in Beijing, where she first declared the now-cited word “rights are human rights.”Almost exactly 25 years. Later, the Covid-19 pandemic delayed UN celebrations of the Beijing Declaration and similar conferences.The pandemic has also created uncertainty as to whether a collection will be possible.
In September 1995, at the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women, before me, there were 1,500 delegates, most of them women of all races and ethnicities, who had travelled to Beijing for the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women.Clinton wrote in The Atlantic, adding, ‘When I finished, the room burst with joy.Delegates stood up, giving me a standing ovation, a rarity in the headless rallies.’
Nearly 25 years later, with the peak of global online activity and dangers related to giant crowds and overseas travel, the planned UN sequel was postponed and no new date has been announced for events, although the format has not officially changed, applause and ovations have become unlikely due to the health hazards posed by the pandemic , as even the United Nations has transferred most of his paintings online.
Before the global pandemic occurred, women’s meetings were intended in Mexico and France to commemorate the Beijing Conference and Agenda of Action, but also to discuss new gender issues.Other side meetings were also planned. These meetings are called the Generation of Equality Forum, organized through UN Women with civil society organizations and the governments of France and Mexico, and the timetable established through a global survey of feminist teams last year.
Although Hillary Rodham Clinton is on the list of speakers at any of those rallies, many women who make plans to attend are now stalled, waiting for the convention commemorating the Beijing convention.
One assembly scheduled to take place in Mexico City, Mexico, in May, followed by another in Paris, France, in July, both were postponed until the first part of 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to an email sent to Forbes through UN Women, “The Equality Generation Forum is adapting and strengthening to respond to the existing pandemic context.The Select Group, which includes the governments of France, Mexico, civil society and UN Women, will announce the dates and format of the Forum for next year in the near future.»
In her essay, Hillary Clinton focuses on the role of women in politics and hopes to see more women in positions of power, she recalled that since lately 22 women are heads of state and that women remain underrepresented in parliaments across the country.the world.
The 2020 convention will have a much broader focus on the issue. The 2021 meetings will talk about gender-based violence, justice and economic rights, physical autonomy and sexual and reproductive rights, feminist action for climate justice, technological innovation for gender equality, and feminist.movements and leaders.
The assembly will also feature leaders from organizations, United Nations agencies, philanthropists, civil society organizations and country representatives.
According to UN Women, “newly announced leaders” are considering the effect of COVID-19 on women and women on each of the six issues, in order to develop a concrete plan to ensure that we rebuild better for women and women in a post-pandemic world.
The Beijing 25 meeting, scheduled for March at United Nations headquarters in New York, was also particularly shortened, as it was the time when the pandemic began beating New York.consisted of only a few participants.
I am a French-Canadian foreign journalist at the United Nations, where I write for PassBlu and host UN-Scripted, a podcast about the UN.
I am a French-Canadian foreign journalist based at the United Nations, where I write for PassBlu and host UN-Scripted, a podcast at the UN.I am interested in women in foreign policy and what we can learn about them.for Radio-Canada/CBC in Canada and La Stampa in Italy.I’m a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and Columbia School of Journalism.In 2015, I won the Young Journalist Award from the Delegation of the European Union in Canada.gave the impression in Foreign Policy, Radio-Canada, Vice News, Quartz and PassBlue, a