Date: Monday, 23 February 2025
Time: 3:30–5:30 p.m. (timing to be confirmed)
Location: Room XX, Palais des Nations, Geneva
(broadcast live and archived at https://webtv.un.org)
The annual high-level panel discussion aims to gather high-level representatives of United Nations agencies and funds, Member and observer States and civil society to discuss the role of digital technologies in preventing and eliminating female genital mutilation. The panel discussion will provide a space to exchange on innovative ways to tackle this harmful practice and form of gender-based violence against girls and women. In particular, it will discuss how new and emerging digital technologies can offer unprecedented opportunities and be an enabler for gender equality and women’s equal enjoyment of human rights. It will explore how digital technology can be a tool in creating an inclusive and conducive environment for access to information that delinks female genital mutilation from culture and religion, that raises awareness on gender equality and on harmful social and gender norms at the root of the practice, all the while protecting the right to privacy of its users