Special Session: The Future of Equality: Beyond Beijing+25

In March 2020, on the occasion of the sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) to be held in New York, the UN will mark the 25th Anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), embedding a particularly visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, set around 12 critical areas of concern. This special session will recall the strong role of cities, local and regional government in the effective implementation of gender equality at all levels, addressing the need to have more women in political life and decision-making high level positions, at all levels.