2025 International feminist agenda: major upcoming events and meetings

Discover in this timeline or "feminist agenda", all the major international events in 2025 related to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal #5 - "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls".
 

What Are the Key Highlights for Gender Equality in 2025 ?

• In the first half of the year, France will host two events : the  Artificial Intelligence Action Summit , on February 10 and 11, an opportunity to showcase the projects selected by the Women’s Rights Online Laboratory launched by France in 2024 ; and the Nutrition For Growth (N4G) Summit on March 27 and 28. France will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Veil Law and the decriminalization of abortion on January 17.

• 69th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) from March 10 to 21 📆 in New York. 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). Discussions at CSW will focus on the evaluation and implementation of this process by UN Member States.

• The OECD will release its 2023 data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) allocated to gender equality around March 8 📆. In France, this occasion will coincide with the awarding of the Simone Veil Prize of the French Republic for gender equality.

• From June 30 to July 3, Spain will host the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, ten years after the last conference in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). This meeting will enable the international community to adapt the current framework for international development financing to today’s realities, addressing the evolving needs of the most vulnerable countries. In preparation for this conference, the Walking the Talk consortium will organize the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference from May 21 to 23 to ensure that funding for gender equality, particularly for feminist organizations in the Global South, is central to this agenda.

• Following Germany, the Netherlands, and Mexico, France will host the fourth conference on feminist foreign policies in 2025. This event will present France’s first Feminist foreign policy strategy and highlight the progress made since its adoption.

• Every year, from November 25 to December 10 📆, the global campaign of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence reminds us of the urgency to fight injustices faced by women and girls worldwide. Starting on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25) until Human Rights Day (December 10), civil society organizations, activists, and policymakers dedicate 16 days to collective reflection, awareness-raising, and action for gender equality and the fight against violence towards women.