Campaigners from across the world will gather to celebrate the role of women in pushing forward global sustainability.
To mark International Women’s Day 2025, leaders and experts from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) and its global partners around the world, will take part in a summit on Wednesday 5 March.
The debate will focus on the levels of gender equality still prevalent across the world, the role higher education can take in addressing it and the power equality has in enabling progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set out by the United Nations.
The event is being organised by Dr Manjeet Ridon, DMU’s Associate Dean for International and, currently, the Head of DMU London, DMU’s newest campus, set to open in the capital later this year.
She said: “Gender equality is still the greatest human rights challenge facing humanity today. As shown by the latest 2024 Gender Snapshot Report none of the goals within the UN’s fifth SDG, gender equality, have been met to date.
“This highlights a continued, deeply rooted bias against women and girls which only fuels barriers to their career success, education and overall wellbeing.
“Accelerating action towards gender equality is essential for both a sustainable and strong community but also for the achievement of all other SDGs. Progress for women benefits everyone and is essential for all of our futures.”
The university works with institutions across the world as part of its Transnational Education (TNE) programme and has overseas branch campus operations as well, including DMU Dubai, DMU Cambodia and DMU Kazakhstan.
But it also includes many more partnerships which sees DMU courses offered to students at universities in China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Denmark.
Staff from many of these institutions will join the debate on March 5, including Professor Katie Normington, Vice-Chancellor of DMU, Professor Charlotte Forsberg, Pro Vice Chancellor at Niels Brock Business College, Denmark and Professor Yan Yuan, Vice-Dean at Xi’an Polytechnic University, China.
Posted on Wednesday 26 February 2025