Meeting

Roundtable: Status of Women Thirty Years After the Beijing Declaration

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Speakers
Geeta Rao Gupta

Ambassador-at-Large, U.S. Department of State

Melanne Verveer

Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Presider
Linda Robinson

Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Roundtable Series on Women's Global Leadership and Women and Foreign Policy Program

In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women issued the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which established a global agenda to advance gender equality. For its thirtieth anniversary, the sixty-ninth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women is conducting a review and appraisal of its implementation and assessing what barriers are impeding progress. Ambassador Verveer, executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, who previously served as the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, and Ambassador Rao Gupta, the most recent U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, reflect on gains for gender equality since the Beijing Declaration and discuss what steps are currently most needed to protect and advance the status of women. 

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