PROGRAMME AGENDA MARCH 29-31, 2021 DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 POWER MOMENT *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 7.00 - 7.45 hrs Opening Ceremony. Auditorium Malala Remarks: Yousafzai - António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations - Olga Sánchez Cordero, Minister of Interior, Government of Mexico - Elvira Pablo, Generation Equality Youth Task Force - Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Generation Equality Forum Global Civil Society Advisory Group - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women - Emmanuel Macron, President, Government of France - Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President, Government of Mexico * Mexico City Time Available languages: 2 English, Spanish, French and Arabic DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 POWER MOMENT *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 8.30 - 10.00 hrs Women and Transformative Leadership for Generation Equality. Auditorium Malala Opening Address: Yousafzai - Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations Opening Video Message: - Sanna Marin, Prime Minister, Government of Finland Chair: - Christy Tanner, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CBS News Digital Panel Speakers: - H.R.H. Crown Princess Mary of Denmark - Aminata Touré, Prime Minister of Senegal (2013-2014) - Inés Yabar, Sustainability Activist - Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008) - Carmen Calvo, Vice President, Government of Spain - Olga Sanchez Cordero, Minister of the Interior, Government of Mexico - Beatriz Argimón, Vice President, Government of Uruguay - Amanda Nguyen, CEO and Founder of Rise - Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1992) - Hajer Sharief, Human Rights Advocate and Co-Founder of “Together We Build It” Closing Remarks: - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UN Women * Mexico City Time Available languages: 3 English, Spanish, French and Arabic DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 CRISES AND HOPE Thematic Dialogues (Session 1) *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 10.00 - 11.30 hrs 1. The Economy. The Crisis of Economic and Global Development Auditorium Models and their Impact on Women and Girls, with a Focus on the Marielle COVID-19 Context. Franco Moderator: - Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women Speakers: - Adija Adamu, Coordinator, African Indigenous Women’s Organization - Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) - Caren Grown, Global Director, Gender, World Bank Group - Isabelle Durant, Acting Secretary-General, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) - Joyce Banda, Former President of Malawi and Founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation - Manuela Tomei, Director of the Conditions of Work and Equality Department, International Labour Organisation (ILO) - Marta Lucía Ramírez, Vice President, Government of Colombia - Obiageli Ezekwesili, Economic Policy Expert, The Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative (AEDPI) - Stanislav Raščan, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Slovenia - Rebecca Grynspan, Secretary-General, Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) * Mexico City Time Available languages: 4 English, Spanish, French and Arabic DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 CRISES AND HOPE Thematic Dialogues (Session 1) *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 10.00 - 11.30 hrs 2. Gender-based Violence. The Crisis of Gender-based Violence Auditorium – Especially in the Context of COVID-19 – and the Need for Marielle Awareness, Prosecution and Eradication. Franco Moderator: - Jennifer Lipenga, Social Accountability & Movement Building Program Associate, For Equality Speakers: - Catalina Devandas Aguilar, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the UN Office in Geneva - Céline Bonnaire, Executive Director, Kering Foundation - Dubravka Šimonovic, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Fabiola Alanis Samano, Commissioner on the Prevention and Eradication of Violence against Women, Government of Mexico - Ghida Anani, Founder and Director, Abaad, Lebanon - Jaha Dukureh, UN Women Ambassador for Africa & Founder and Executive Director of Safe Hands for Girls, Gambia - Rocio Rosero, Women’s Rights Defender - Sarah Schlitz, State Secretary for Gender Equality, Equal Opportunity and Diversity, Government of Belgium - Viviane Michel, President, Femmes Autochtones du Quebec (FAQNW)- Quebec Native Women Inc. - Hon. Justice Zione Ntaba, High Court Judge, Malawi * Mexico City Time Available languages: 5 English, Spanish, French and Arabic DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 CRISES AND HOPE Thematic Dialogues (Session 1) *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 10.00 - 11.30 hrs 3. Feminist Movements. The Challenges of Feminist Movements Auditorium and Grassroots Women’s Organizations Including in the COVID-19 Marielle Context. Franco Moderator: - Shannon Kowalski, Director, Advocacy and Policy, International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) Speakers: - Cecilia Chacón Castillo, Secretary of Human Rights and President of the Mixed Justice Commission, Government of Ecuador - Karen Elleman, Former Minister for Equal Opportunities, Government of Denmark - Lopa Banerjee, Director of Civil Society Division & Executive Coordination of Generation Equality Forum, UN Women - Mersi Shehu, Women and Youth Rights Activist, Founder of the Regional Cooperation for Youth and Children, Albania - Monica Aleman, Senior Programme Officer, The BUILD Program (Building Institutions and Networks), Ford Foundation - Quiteria Anicia Fernandes Guirengane, Chair, Rede de Mulheres Jovens Lideres (RMJL), Mozambique - Tarcila Rivera Zea, a Quechua Activist, Founder & Vice President, Center of Indigenous Cultures of Peru (CHIRAPAQ), Peru * Mexico City Time Available languages: 6 English, Spanish, French and Arabic DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 CRISES AND HOPE Thematic Dialogues (Session 1) *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 10.00 - 11.30 hrs 4. Media. The Role of Media in Building a Feminist Agenda. Auditorium Marielle Moderator: Franco - Marion Reimers, Journalist, Fox Sports Speakers: - Anitha Gurumurthy, Founding Member and Executive Director, IT for Change, India - Cindy Southworth, Women’s Safety Policy Manager, Facebook - Edmund Yakani, Executive Director, Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), South Sudan - Kanbar Hossein-Bor, Deputy High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Government of the United Kingdom - Nina Goswani, BBC Creative Diversity Lead and Journalist - Pascalle Grotenhuis, Director Social Development & Ambassador for Women’s Rights & Gender Equality, Government of the Netherlands - Sonia Santoro, Journalist and Activist, Centro de Atención a Niñez, Adolescencia, Género y Diversidad de la Defensoría del Pueblo, Periodista Página 12, Argentina - Zaineb Dahmoul, Youth Advocate, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), Tunisia * Mexico City Time Available languages: 7 English, Spanish, French and Arabic DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 CRISES AND HOPE Thematic Dialogues (Session 1) *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 11.30 - 13.00 hrs 5. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Auditorium Understanding Challenges to Bodily Autonomy, Access, and Marielle Respect of SRHR, with a Focus on the COVID-19 Context. Franco Moderator: - Laila Baker, Regional Director for Arab States, United Nations Development Coordination Office Speakers: - Aíde García, International Relations Coordinator, Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir - Asa Regnér, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women - Audrey Fontaine, Generation Equality Youth Task Force - Cecilia Merchant, Minister for Equality Policies and Diversity, Minister for Women, Genders and Diversity, Government of Argentina - Darren Welch, General Director for Global Health, Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office, Government of the United Kingdom - Diene Keita, Deputy Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) - Gro Lindstad, Executive Director, Forum for Women and Development (FOKUS) - Josephine Aseme, Founder, Greater Women Initiative for Health and Rights - Karina Gould, Minister of International Development, Government of Canada - Pauline Faith Gartor, Executive Director, Girls Health Alliance - Sandra Castañeda, General Coordinator, Red de Salud de las Mujeres Latinoamericanas y del Caribe - Teresa Alarcón Rodríguez, Rebeldía Collective * Mexico City Time Available languages: 8 English, Spanish, French and Arabic DAY 1. MARCH 29, 2021 CRISES AND HOPE Thematic Dialogues (Session 1) *TIME (GMT-6) ACTIVITY AUDITORIUM 11.30 - 13.00 hrs 6. Crisis in the Achievement of Gender Equality in Peace and Auditorium Security and Humanitarian Sector. Marielle Franco Moderator: - Susanne Mikhail, Regional Director, Arab States, UN Women Speakers: - Angela Kane, Senior Fellow, Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation - Bineta Diop, Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security to the African Union and Founder of Femmes Africa Solidarité - Daniela Soto Pito, Coordinator, Programa Mujer Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca - Kateryna Levchenko, Governmental Commissioner for Gender Policy, Government of Ukraine - Jaqueline O’Neill, Ambassador for Women, Peace, and Security, Government of Canada - María Fernanda Espinosa, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Defense of Ecuador, former President of the UN General Assembly - May Maloney, Deputy Head, Addressing Sexual Violence, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Paivi Kannisto, Chief, Women, Peace, & Security, UN Women - Radhika Coomaraswamy, Former Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict