High-Level Meeting on the Int’l Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women [IDEAW]

The year 2024 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of United Nations General Assembly resolution 54/134 which proclaimed the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. This date was selected to honour the Mirabal sisters, three political activists from the Dominican Republic who were brutally murdered in 1960 and whose activism and resistance galvanized global attention to eliminate violence against women.

Over the past 25 years, the international community has taken significant steps to address violence against women and girls, recognizing that violence against women and girls is a major impediment to the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and violates and impairs the full enjoyment of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The high-level meeting will take place in-person on 25 November 2024, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. in the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. A more detailed programme will be circulated in due course.

The meeting will consist of an opening segment followed by a plenary segment for statements by Member States and Observers of the General Assembly.

Inscription on the list of speakers for the high-level meeting will open on the e-deleGATE platform on Monday, 4 November 2024 at 10 a.m. and close on Wednesday, 20 November at 5 p.m.

The United Nations Webcast services will provide live streaming coverage of the high-level meeting in all 6 UN official languages as well as on-demand coverage (recorded video) in English and speaker’s original language, through the UN Web TV website.

To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, with a focus on highlighting achievements, sharing best practices and identifying gaps and challenges to eliminating all forms of violence against women and girls, and to galvanize accelerated efforts on the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls in line with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action as the thirtieth anniversary of their adoption approaches in 2025.

Participation in the high-level meeting will be open for Member States and Observers of the General Assembly, who are invited to participate at the highest possible level (Ministers), with attendance from the United Nations system, international and regional organizations, as well as representatives of nongovernmental organization having consultative status with ECOSOC.