பெண் சக்தி மாநாடு 2025
India’s Largest Women’s Empowerment Summit
We don’t just advocate for gender equality. We think it, breathe it, live it.
Advance women’s and girls’ rights
Fight for women's and girls' rights, equality, and empowerment. Challenge violence, discrimination, and exploitation. Advocate for justice, dignity, and policies ensuring freedom, inclusion, and opportunity for all.
Promote gender equality
Address systemic barriers, dismantle patriarchy, transform entrenched inequities, and elevate the voices of marginalized women and girls, including young people, to ensure inclusivity and empowerment.
Foster empowerment
Redefine power structures by ensuring inclusive access to education, employment, leadership, and decision-making spaces. Prioritize opportunities for young women and girls to lead and innovate.
Pen Sakthi Maanadu 2025
பெண் சக்தி மாநாடு 2025
PSM2025 is India’s premier gathering of trailblazing women, influential leaders, policymakers, and changemakers, hosted under the United Nations Generation Equality Forum Commitment by the Sustainable Development Council (SDC). As a globally recognized organization with special consultative status in the United Nations ECOSOC, SDC is dedicated to advancing gender equality, sustainable development, and social justice.
This powerhouse event brings together bold voices and visionary minds driving change, breaking barriers, and reshaping the future. From igniting global movements to building billion-dollar enterprises, PSM2023 is where innovation meets action. Join us as we reimagine leadership, amplify impact, and forge a new era of progress!
Meet the Cohort of the Emerging Leaders for Change Program
For ALL Women and Girls
Rights. Equality. Empowerment.
This year’s theme calls for action that can unlock equal rights, power and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one is left behind. Central to this vision is empowering the next generation—youth, particularly young women and adolescent girls—as catalysts for lasting change.
30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration
The year 2025 is a pivotal moment in the global pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment, as it marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, China, by 189 governments, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains the most progressive and widely endorsed blueprint for women’s and girls’ rights worldwide.
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action transformed the women’s rights agenda.
- Legal Protection: Before 1995, only 12 countries had legal sanctions against domestic violence. Today, there are 1,583 legislative measures in place across 193 countries, including 354 targeting domestic violence specifically. These laws represent a collective refusal to tolerate abuse and impunity.
- Access to services: The Beijing Platform for Action demanded essential services like shelters, legal aid, counseling, and healthcare for survivors of violence. These services have expanded globally, offering critical lifelines for countless women and girls.
- Youth engagement: The Beijing agenda inspired a new wave of young feminists who are now shaping movements for gender justice, leveraging digital platforms, and driving activism for equality.
- Changing social norms: The agreement adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women agenda ignited women’s rights movements worldwide, challenging harmful stereotypes, ideas and practices, and paving the way for gender equal policies, laws, and institutions.
- Women’s participation in peace: The Beijing Platform for Action emphasized the need to increase women’s full and equal participation at all levels of conflict resolution and prevention, including at decision-making levels. Today, there are 112 countries with National Action Plans on women, peace and security – a significant increase from only 19 in 2010. These National Action Plans have been key in facilitating women’s participation in peacebuilding and post-conflict recovery, enabling their access to decision-making positions, and paving the way for new laws to address sexdffual violence in conflict.
Generation Equality begins now
In today’s world, both women and men—and girls and boys—all over the world are speaking up for themselves and for those who have been silenced, stigmatized, and shamed for far too long. Many are from a new generation. They are seizing the moment to reimagine economies, societies, and political systems so that they uphold human rights and achieve gender equality, leaving no one behind.
UN Women is bringing together the next generations of women’s rights activists with the gender equality advocates and visionaries who were instrumental in creating the Beijing Platform for Action more than two decades ago. Collectively, these change makers of all ages and genders can tackle the unfinished business of empowering women through a new, groundbreaking, multigenerational campaign: “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future”.
The Generation Equality campaign demands equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end to sexual harassment and all forms of violence against women and girls, health-care services that respond to their needs, and their equal participation in political life and decision-making in all areas of life.
