Municipalities, museums, ministries and mothers. This week, over 150 Danish organisations work together around gender equality in an extensive outreach program staged in Copenhagen in conjunction with the Women Deliver 4th Global Conference, attracting more than 5,000 delegates from 165 countries around women’s and girl’s health and rights. Women Deliver’s CEO names the outreach pro-gram ‘the most impressive we’ve ever seen’.
Katja Iversen, CEO for the global Women Deliver organisation, arranging Women Deliver 4th Global Conference, is impressed by the Danish engagement. She says:
“It’s the first time we’ve seen a country mobilise such an extensive engagement and outreach around a Women Deliver conference. […] I’m truly impresses and convinced that it will be of great inspiration to both the international guests and the locals.”
Denmark is known as a strong advocate of women’s and girls’ rights to make decisions regarding their own life and bodies and was recently named World’s Best Country for Women. As stated earlier by Women Deliver president and founder, Jill Sheffield, Denmark’s position on gender equality was a major reason to why Women Deliver chose Copenhagen as the host destination for this years conference:
“We are beyond excited that Women Deliver 2016 will be held in Copenhagen. The Danish government has played a key role in promoting the rights and health of young girls and women, and we expect that this will ensure that the conference will help push these topics to the top of the global development agenda and gather advocates and opinion leaders from all over the world.”
To share a broader legacy around the theme of the conference is becoming more and more important to international congress organisers. Jonas Wilstup, Convention Director in Wonderful Copenhagen Convention Bureau says:
“A local and innovative engagement on how to manifest the theme of the congress outside the four walls of the conference centre in order to ensure long term legacy amongst both local and global stakeholders and the public is becoming core among international associations. The outreach program arranged in conjunc-tion with Women Deliver 4th Global Conference is a state-of-the-art case on how Copenhagen can help a congress organiser in achieving this.”
Women Deliver is just one of many prestigious congresses coming to Copenhagen this year – 2016 will be the biggest congress year the city has ever seen.
About the Woman Deliver 4th Global Conference:
The Women Deliver 4th Global Conference is taking place at Bella Center in Copenhagen May 16-19. It is the largest gathering on women’s health and rights in the last decade, and the first major global conference on these issues following the launch of the UN’s post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). HRH the Crown Princess of Denmark is patron of Women Deliver 4th Global Conference.
