Tuesday 4 June
Let’s Talk About It: Period!
Organized by: CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, UNFPA, We Are Purposeful Menstruating is normal. Period. In this session, an intergenerational panel will discuss how maintaining health during menstruation maintains wellbeing, mobility, and dignity. The…
Capacity Building and Market-Driven Skills for Power and Progress in Crisis Settings
Organized by: International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, World Food Programme Women are economic actors who build households and contribute to community resilience- including in humanitarian and conflict settings. This session will explore successful…
When Yes Means Yes: Protecting the Right to Bodily Autonomy
Organized by: International Planned Parenthood Federation, Sonke Gender Justice, Women Enabled International Informed consent is denied in the form of sexual assault and harassment, forced sterilizations, forced marriages, forced abortions, forced contraception,…
WORKSHOP: Inclusive Advocacy Strategies: How Working in Coalition as our Full Selves Produces Better Outcomes
Organized by: Outright Action International Advocacy is never easy. To be effective, civil society needs a detailed understanding of the problem, evidence to substantiate our concerns, and a targeted solutions-oriented approach to produce change. Most…
Film Screenings: Male Allies
Road to Change Trailer (3:05) > Join former monk, Ravinol, as he learns about the challenges girls in India face accessing education today while driving 1800km to revisit the village he lived in 20 years ago. We will meet girls whose lives have already…
Surviving Day One: Birth in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus
Organized by: Family Planning 2020, Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security, UNFPA, Women Deliver Surviving the first day of childbirth (Day One) is a challenge for women and newborns…
Powerful Partnerships: What’s the Recipe?
Organized by: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Deliver for Good, Global Partnership for Education If you are looking to leave Vancouver with a recipe for success to establish powerful cross-issue, cross-sector partnerships, this session is the place…
Gender and Climate Change: Climate Justice Solutions
Organized by: BSR, UNFCCC, Women’s Environment and Development Organization This session explores the linkages between gender equality, women’s empowerment and climate change by highlighting the differentiated impacts of climate change, and how they…
Her Story: 6,743 Count My Voice!
Hosted by: Accountability Lab This documentary about the story of a Dalit women ward member in Terai region of Nepal. She was elected as per the constitution of Nepal 2015 that mandates that one of the four ward member elected during the last federal…
The Power of Money: Driving equitable economic growth by investing in women
The World Bank estimates that nations leave $160 trillion on the table when women don’t fully participate in national economies. The Power of Money will examine examples of investments in women’s financial inclusion, seed funding, patient capital,…
On the Ground
Hear directly from delegates at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference
Making Commitments Reality: Rights of Migrant and Refugee Women
Organized by: Save the Children Canada, Women’s Refugee Commission Displacement often compounds existing discrimination against women, such that the risks and hurdles facing girls and women seeking asylum include discriminatory family laws and nationality…
News Watch
Breaking news and announcements Host: Shahira Amin, Independent Journalist - Carolyn Tastad, Group President - North America and Executive Sponsor - Gender Equality at Procter & Gamble - Anna Van Acker, President and Managing Director of Merck Canada…
Film Screenings: Sex Trafficking
Saving Zoe (14:00) > Echo and Zoë are sisters who couldn't be more different. One year after Zoë's murder, Echo unexpectedly discovers Zoë's diary and Echo begins a quest for the truth. Echo finds herself sucked into the surprising darkness of her…
Face to Face with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Host: Linda Givetash, Journalist
Film Screenings: Women and AIDS
HIV Disclosure (2:31) > This educational, animated video, developed by sexual health experts, focuses on disclosure as it relates to HIV status among very young adolescents. The video is targeted towards 10-14 year olds living in East and Southern Africa…
Beyond Compliance: Private Sector Action for Women's Health and Empowerment
Hosted by: United Nations Foundation The United Nations Foundation, together with partners, is hosting a private working meeting followed by a high-level dinner, bringing together companies, governments, multilaterals, and NGOs to discuss how corporations…
Power Talks: Progress
Moderated by: Alana Glass, Attorney and Sports Entrepreneur 4:35 | Deborah Birx, MD, Ambassador-at-Large and United States Global AIDS Coordinator > Adolescent girls and young women in Eastern and Southern Africa are up to 14 times more likely to be…
The Power of Tech: How do we best harness technology for gender equality?
A growing body of evidence shows that technology has the potential to help close the global gender gap faster – but only if it is designed by and for women, and gets in the hands of women. Whether or not tech lives up to its promise to be a driver…
EdTech Talk: The Future of Health Worker Training
Hosted by: International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), Laerdal Global Health & Maternity Foundation Can technology help midwives save mothers and newborns in childbirth? Digital tools and innovations are rapidly changing the landscape of health worker…