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Denmark highlights commitment to girls and women

Copenhagen announced as the official location of the Women Deliver 2016 global conference

Star Health Desk
Advocacy organisation Women Deliver and the Danish Minister for Trade and Development Corporation, Mogens Jensen, recently announced that the next Women Deliver global conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May 2016. The announcement was made at the Invest in Girls and Women — Everybody Wins event held at the Danish Parliament, where Denmark's new Strategic Framework for Gender Equality, Rights and Diversity was also launched.
The Women Deliver 2016 Conference — the fourth triennial global meeting — will be the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health and rights in the last decade and the first large global conference on these issues following the launch of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The meeting will offer advocates, aaivists, researchers, policymakers, young people, journalists, private seaor leaders and members of civil society an unprecedented opportunity to strategise on how to operationalise these new goals and make sure that investments in girls and women become a priority at the national and global levels.
The Women Deliver 2016 Conference will build on momen-
tum generated around the previous landmark conferences held in 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which was attended by 4,500 participants from 149 countries; in 2010 in Washington, D.C.; and in 2007 in London. The conferences have in the past drawn high-level attendance — including by the UN Seaetary-General — and have generated aaion, spurred new ideas, and shared solutions that continue to make a difference for girls and women around the world.
Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark is active in working to create awareness on girls’ and women’s sexual and reproduaive health and rights, global maternal health and child mortality issues, and acts as patron of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Maternity
Foundation.
'I am proud that Denmark will be hosting the Women Deliver 2016 Conference, and look very much forward to not only welcoming the world’s leading girls’ and women's health and rights advocates to Copenhagen for this historic event, but also to be participating once again in what is an inspirational, powerful and potentially gamechanging forum," said Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, who has also been a committed member of the High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) since its establishment in 2012. "Together, we need to inaease investments in women and girls. If we can close the gender gap, it will be a win for the individual, for global development, and for economic growth - everybody wins."
The Danish Ministry also launched a new Strategic Framework for Gender Equality, Rights and Diversity to guide its efforts to improve the lives of girls and women around the world. The new framework focuses on the potential of gender equality to transform societies, and highlights how Denmark will help girls and women access resources and seize opportunities that will enable them to take control over their own lives.