Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women
A/RES/73/340
session is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and gender
equality and the empowerment of women and girls,
1.
Decides that the one-day high-level meeting of the General Assembly on
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women shall be held
in New York on Wednesday, 23 September 2020, in the margins of the general debate
of the Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and consist of an
opening segment, a plenary segment for general discussion and a closing segment;
2.
Also decides that the theme of the high-level meeting of the General
Assembly will be “Accelerating the realization of gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls” and that this meeting will highlight
achievements, best practices, gaps and challenges, and recalls that the theme of the
seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, “The future we want, the United
Nations we need: reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism”, shall
guide all activities, meetings and conferences organized by the United Nations
in 2020;
3.
Further decides that:
(a) The opening segment, to be held from 9 to 10 a.m., will feature statements
by the President of the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, the SecretaryGeneral, a representative of China as the host country of the Fourth World Conference
on Women, the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the United Nations
Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the
Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, the Chair of the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Chair of the
Working Group of the Human Rights Council on the issue of discrimination against
women in law and in practice, the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council
on violence against women, its causes and consequences, as well as an eminent highlevel champion of gender equality, a representative from civil society and a young
woman leader, to be selected, in consultation with Member States, by the President
of the Assembly;
(b) The plenary segment, to be held from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., will comprise
statements by all States Members of the United Nations and members of the
specialized agencies that have observer status with the General Assembly,
intergovernmental organizations and entities that have observer status with the
Assembly, a list of speakers will be established in accordance with established
practices of the Assembly and the time limits for these statements will be three
minutes for individual delegations and five minutes for statements made on behalf o f
a group of States;
(c) The closing segment, to be held from 6.30 to 7 p.m., will comprise
concluding remarks by the President of the General Assembly;
4.
Requests the President of the General Assembly, with the support of the
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women), to organize and preside over an interactive multi-stakeholder hearing
following the high-level political forum on sustainable development in July 2020,
with the active participation of representatives of all States Members of the United
Nations and members of the specialized agencies that have observer status with the
General Assembly, intergovernmental organizations and entities that have observer
status with the Assembly, and parliamentarians, representatives of non-governmental
organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, invited
civil society organizations, national human rights institutions, where they exist,
academic institutions and the private sector, ensuring the participation and voices of
women and girls as part of the preparatory process for the high-level meeting of the
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