Dimitra Missira, Key Expert of the Gender Equality Working Group for the G20 Interfaith Forum, opened the webinar by welcoming all participants and attendees and emphasizing the importance of the discussion topic, which was the intersectionality of policy, gender, and religion.

“Even though the past decades have given rise to new global politics of gender equality and we have seen significant increases in women’s representation at different levels, gender divisions of power have not relented. Forty years after the adoption of the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, we witness that women’s rights are being eroded…The focus of this event is on women, but more than the focus on women is the celebration of their voices and their power through a women dominated panel.”

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