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<p>Gender equality is a top development priority for the UK. Girls and women across
the world are held back by systematic and entrenched inequality and discrimination.</p><p>
</p><p>This year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women is particularly important:
2020 marks the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action, the foundational international agenda for women’s empowerment agreed in
1995, and five years since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. DFID
will be attending the event.</p><p> </p><p>Our engagement with CSW will reinforce
the UK’s bold leadership on gender equality, in the face of an increasingly coordinated
and effective opposition to women’s rights globally.</p><p> </p><p>DFID is working
across government and with like-minded partners to drive forward our international
priorities for girls and women including: negotiating a progressive and forward-looking
Political Declaration, championing the critical role of civil society in collaborating
with governments, the UN and other key actors, and standing firm against the attempted
rollback of the international framework.</p>
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