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At the margins of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UNESCO, Group of Friends for Education and Lifelong Learning, UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) and Plan International will organize a virtual event "Girls and women: leading the charge to ensure #LearningNeverStops. The event will offer an intergenerational space for dialogue, and profile the extraordinary steps taken by extraordinary girls and women of all ages and in all contexts to support girls’ continuity of learning during school closures and return to school.

These leaders will aim to speak on behalf of the millions of at-risk girls whose voices are going unheard. They will highlight the essential need to build back equal through gender-transformative education systems that end harmful gender norms, free girls and boys from narrow aspirations and enable them to work together in the classroom today for a more equal world tomorrow.

This online event aims to:      

• Examine the gender dimensions of COVID-related school closures, and the impact on girls’ and young women’s education in different contexts.
• Highlight the critical role girls and women are playing as youth leaders, community advocates, teachers, ministers and other decision-makers to ensure girls’ and young women’s continuity of learning and return to school, and key elements of success.
• Facilitate knowledge exchange on the collective, intergenerational and sustained actions needed to ‘build back equal’, so that all girls and women can take their rightful place as the leaders of today and tomorrow.

This event will take place on Zoom, with simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Spanish. Register here to participate. This event will also be livestreamed on UNWebTV.

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https://events.unesco.org/event?id=3207541267&lang=1033