In preparation for the Commission on the Status of Women, we released five recommendations that world leaders must address to include young women and their full participation in decision-making spaces.

Young women have been disproportionately affected by the economic and social impacts of COVID-19 in Canada. Young women (18-24 years old) made up 59% of the total job losses when the pandemic began, and as of last month, young women are suffering employment losses three times worse than the national average –the furthest of any demographic away from pre-COVID numbers.

On March 15 to 26, the sixty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) took place with one of the priority themes on “women’s full and effective participation in decision-making in public life”.

The whole idea of the project saying that young women are important to have on boards and our opinion is important…

As we close the chapter on 2020, I want to stop and reflect on how this year has changed G(irls)20 as an organization and how we have adapted to and have risen above the challenges that 2020 presented.

Diwali celebrates light, and this year the Diwali Awards, 2020 shone a spotlight on G(irls)20 as an organization that strengthens the Canada-India ties and empowers young women to continue to initiate change at a global level. This year, G(irls)20 was honored to be selected to receive the Roy MacLaren Humanitarian Award.

Lamia Mounavaraly is this year’s G(irls)20 delegate for France who has found her feminism and empowers young women living in her community in the French territory, La Réunion.

G(irls)20 brings young women from around the world each year to advocate for the G20 to take an intersectional gender lens on key commitments. In October 2020, we outlined our recommendations in our Communique.