Edita Tahiri, Chair of RWLSEE participated in the Paris Generation Equality Forum from 30 June to 2 July 2021, via online platform, and on this occasion she signed the WPS-HA Compact Framework on behalf of the RWLSEE. The RWLSEE as a commitment maker will invest in transformative actions related to ‘WOMEN’S FULL, EQUAL AND MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION OF GENDER-RELATED PROVISIONS IN PEACE PROCESSES’  with Specific Actions B.3.3 and B.3.4.

​The Generation Equality Forum in Paris that took place from 30 June – 2 July, engaging nearly 50,000 people with the announcement of bold gender equality commitments including $40 billion of committed investments and the launch of a global 5-year action journey to accelerate gender equality by 2026.  

The five-year action journey to accelerate gender equality by 2026, kickstarted with the culmination of the Generation Equality Forum in Paris. The Forum, which closed on 2 July, featured over 110 multi-stakeholder events over 3 days, hosted via an online platform.

The Forum was opened by the co-hosts, President of France, Emmanuel Macron and Mexico’s President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as well as by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and convener of the Forum, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women. The ceremony featured civil society activists, youth leaders and women’s rights defenders alongside Heads of State and Government, Heads of Public and Private Sector organizations and featured long-term advocate for gender equality