KOCHI: Mayor Soumini Jain is in Mexico to attend ‘Global Meeting of Mayors on Gender Equality: A Commitment to Action’ organised by UN Women and the City of Mexico on Saturday. Representatives of UN entities and organisations including national and local authorities, women’s organisations, NGOs and civil society groups are attending the conference. The conference will be a platform to share and learn experiences and best practices from UN Women’s Safe City projects from across the world. In line with UN Women’s ‘Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality’ initiative, the event will mobilise new commitments to eliminate gender inequality and discrimination against women and girls.
The commitments could be related to investing in interventions which are needed to ensure a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to prevent and respond to sexual harassment against women and girls in public spaces, and other forms of violence against women. It can also be on updating the city/municipal action plans to embed strategic gender-based tools and practices to ensure safe and sustainable city initiatives. UN Women will prepare a report of the meeting summarising the messages and commitments of mayors and will publish it online.
