Founding W20 Chair, 2015
W20 Declarations
Women 20 2024 calls upon G20 leaders to: Implement actions to achieve women’s economic empowerment and gender equality commitments agreed to in the last nine G20 Leaders’ Declarations; Implement the 2014 Brisbane commitment (25×25) to reduce by 25% the participation gap of women in the labor force by 2025. According to the 2024 ILO/OECD Report, only…
The economic empowerment of women is one of the most fundamental components of achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment more broadly, if women participated in the economy identically to men, it would add up to USD 28 trillion, or 26%, to annual GDP in 2025 compared with a business-as-usual scenario;…
Women 20 2022 (W20) calls upon the G20 leaders to ensure that women and girls are central to the 2022 G20 Presidency theme of ‘Recover Together, Recover Stronger’. W20 urge G20 leaders to: — Act on their commitments to implement the “G20 Roadmap Towards and Beyond the Brisbane Target”, also…
People all over the planet are at the epicentre of three epochal influences – the pandemic crisis, the climate crisis and the technological revolution. These will have considerable social, economic and environmental impact for years to come, particularly on women. We, the representatives of the 2021 Women 20, call on…
On the Women 20’s fifth anniversary, the world enters a highly interconnected environment characterized by technology revolutions, economic uncertainty, social unrest, and a rapidly unfolding global crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. G20 leaders must pave the way for equitable economic recovery where women, as equal partners and key economic…
We are a group of 60+ feminists from Canada, G7 countries and around the world. We represent feminist organizations and activists working on a cross-section of issues to address discrimination and inequalities on the basis of gender and other intersecting factors. We are at the frontline of resistance and progress…
We, the representatives of the Women20 (W20) network, fully endorse the statement in the Buenos Aires G20 Leaders’ Declaration that “gender equality is crucial for economic growth and fair and sustainable development.” We reiterate the need for women and men to work in partnership to close the gender gap in…
Women 20 (W20) was set up under the 2015 Turkish G20 Presidency as a stand-alone official G20 Engagement Group, which focuses on the promotion of economic growth in a gender responsive and inclusive manner. This year, the G20 Presidency is with Argentina. The W20 Summit was recently held in Buenos Aires. Four…
We, the representatives of the Women20 (W20) 2018 network, strongly believe that gender equality is a key driver of sustainable and inclusive growth. This view is at the core of the G20 Argentina 2018 agenda and is in line with Sustainable Development Goal 5, which aims to “achieve gender equality…
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We, the delegates of the first ever W20 Summit, gathered together in Istanbul on 16-17 October 2015, after having thoroughly discussed different aspects of the women related issues of global economy indicated in the W20’s “Priority Policy Paper”, agreed to put forward the following set of policy recommendations to support…
G20 Leaders’ Communiqué Antalya Summit, 15-16 November 2015 Introduction 1. We, the Leaders of the G20, met in Antalya on 15-16 November 2015 to determine further collective actions towards achieving strong, sustainable and balanced growth to raise the prosperity of our people. We are firm in our resolve to ensure…
