International Women's Day Breakfast at Melbourne Town Hall 2020

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The 2020 global International Women's Day theme is Generation Equality. Generation Equality is a call to action to join forces across generations, to create a world where every girl and woman has equal opportunities to fulfil their full potential. Equal access to education and income are central to levelling the playing field for women around the world.

Half a billion of the world's illiterate adults are women. This trend has not changed in 20 years. UN Women is actively working to change that.

At this year's IWD events in capital cities across the country, hear about UN Women's pioneering Second Chance Education (SCE) program, underway in seven countries worldwide, including Australia.

SCE is designed to unlock opportunities for women and adolescent girls everywhere. The SCE program is developing context-specific, affordable and scalable learning, employment and entrepreneurship pathways to empower some of the world's most disadvantaged women and young women to unleash their full potential.

Join UN Women's Sonali Hedditch, along with local partners Luz Restrepo, CEO of SisterWorks and Wendy Yarnold, CEO of Real Futures, for a dynamic discussion around how UN Women's ground-breaking initiative will change the future for millions of women and adolescent girls in Australia and beyond.

Secure your table today.