Governments reaffirm their commitment to place gender equality at the centre of global progress
Source: UN Women
The empowerment of all women and girls was firmly upheld at the 2025 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) – the United Nation’s central platform for reviewing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals – as world leaders adopted a new Ministerial Declaration placing gender equality at the centre of global development.
UN Women welcomes the Declaration, which reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action and calls for women’s full, equal, and meaningful participation in public life, leadership, peacebuilding, and crisis response. It addresses long-standing barriers including poverty, unpaid care work, discriminatory laws and social norms, harmful practices, and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. It underscores the rights of rural and Indigenous women, their access to land and natural resources, and the importance of integrating gender into climate action, as well as women’s critical role in small-scale fisheries and coastal economies and in the strengthening of food security and commits to address the structural barriers that they face.
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The empowerment of all women and girls was firmly upheld at the 2025 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) – the United Nation’s central platform for reviewing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals – as world leaders adopted a new Ministerial Declaration placing gender equality at the centre of global development.
UN Women welcomes the Declaration, which reaffirms the Beijing Platform for Action and calls for women’s full, equal, and meaningful participation in public life, leadership, peacebuilding, and crisis response. It addresses long-standing barriers including poverty, unpaid care work, discriminatory laws and social norms, harmful practices, and multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. It underscores the rights of rural and Indigenous women, their access to land and natural resources, and the importance of integrating gender into climate action, as well as women’s critical role in small-scale fisheries and coastal economies and in the strengthening of food security and commits to address the structural barriers that they face.
Read the full article published here.