Twenty portraits with female activists and promoters of gender equality representing different generations were presented at a photo exhibition launched by UN Women. The portraits of protagonists are accompanied by a quote that urges to take concrete and immediate actions to ensure gender equality, IPN reports.

The exhibition titled “Equality Generation” illustrates the efforts made to achieve gender equality from an intergenerational perspective. According to the organizers, the exhibited activists are women who lived the spirit of the Beijing World Confederation on Women of 1995 and those who take part in the Paris Forum.

The official launch of the exhibition was followed by an informal discussion between several of the exhibition’s protagonists who shared their views about an equal society.

The event preceded the Equality Generation Forum that is held in Paris during June 30-July 2. The forum is a global event launched by UN Women and this year it is supported by the governments of Mexico and France. It pursues the ambitious goal of launching immediate actuations that will contribute to ensuring gender equality in all the participating states and at world level.

“The ensuring of the respect for and promotion of women’s rights is an intrinsic obligation of each state and the achieving of real and effective equality between women and men in all the spheres of public and private life is a sign of maturity for any society. I’m sure that the forum’s echo will reach the Republic of Moldova and will inspire the elaboration of a new long-term policy document on gender equality,” said Gheorghe Leucă, secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration.

UN Women Moldova Country Representative Dominika Stojanoska said the progress made in obtaining gender equality after 25 years of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration of 1995 turned out to be slow. “This made us understand that we need rapid and definite actions to achieve gender equality. We decided to organize this intergenerational dialogue so as to also offer the young people the possibility of speaking. If we want to accelerate the progress, we must make sure that the voice of each of us is heard,” stated Dominika Stojanoska, being quoted in a press release.

The photo exhibition can be visited during 30 days until end-July. The pictures were placed on the National Museum of History’s fence situated on Bănulescu-Bodoni Blvd.