Copenhagen – Ongoing in Copenhagen until Thursday, the The Women Deliver Conference, the largest group gathering to discuss the health, rights and well-being of women worldwide and has been for over a decade, the most important world conference after the launch of objectives for sustainable development. The conference’s main theme of how to implement health and women’s rights with a specific focus on health – particularly maternal and sexual and reproductive health – and interconnections with gender equality, education, the environment and economical progress. Building from the achievements of the women from the three previous global meetings -London in 2007, in Washington in 2010 and Kuala Lumpur in 2013, the 2016 Conference meets in Copenhagen among world leaders, lawyers, politicians, journalists, young people, researchers and private sector executives and civic society to demonstrate what it means and how it works when women and girls become the pivots of development efforts. (9Colonne)
