Generation Equality – What’s Next for Displaced Women and Girls?

In ReliefWeb, Stephanie Johanssen, associate director of advocacy and UN representative for the Women’s Refugee Commission, wrote this post on the Generation Equality Forum in Paris in July 2021, posing the question: what’s next for displaced women and girls?

Earlier this month, UN Women, France, and Mexico convened the Generation Equality Forum, Paris, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World Conference on Women and its Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The organizers intended this conference—more than two years in the making—to capture a moment to both celebrate progress made on the Beijing Platform and for governments, UN agencies, civil society, and the private sector to outline how to advance this agenda further.

The Forum launched the Global Acceleration Plan, a comprehensive blueprint outlining steps to achieve progress by 2026 in areas such as economic rights, gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and climate justice. A coalition of UN agencies, member states, and civil society organizations also launched the Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action, a framework with action items building on existing commitments in humanitarian policies and the women, peace, and security agenda.

Read WRC’s commitments during the 2021 Generation Equality Forum in Paris.