International Womens Day 2025 Beijing plus 30 Marching Forward
By Dr Kate Laing
The 2025 theme for International Women’s Day for 2025 (as adopted by UN Women Australia) is ‘March Forward: For ALL Women and Girls’. This year also marks 30 years since 189 countries unanimously adopted the Declaration and Platform for Action on gender equality at the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing. This collective action remains a high point for the international movement to advance gender equality, with Australia having played a substantial role. Specifically, the Australian delegation insisted that the conference’s final agenda be a ‘Conference of Commitments’ requiring monitoring and evaluation. This Flagpost reflects on Australia’s engagement with the United Nations’ (UN) Women’s Conferences and other gender equality initiatives before and after the 1995 Beijing Conference.
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