The official Towards Equality teaser was beautifully put together by Anastasia Mikova based on shots from her movie Woman featuring over 2000 women in 50 countries.

Towards Equality
2021 Edition

Ahead of the Generation Equality Forum, Sparknews invited 15 news outlets from around the world to join forces and shed light, with a solutions-oriented approach, on today’s most pressing gender equality challenges.

On June 18, 2021, they published 27 news stories, shared in 10 languages, reaching more than 70 million people.

To kick off the first media alliance of the Towards Equality program, Sparknews hosted a live-streamed event featuring prominent journalists and international key opinion leaders paving the way towards gender equality.

Discover or rediscover what Tsutomu Ishiai, Dorcas Muga, Regula Messerli, Francesca Donner, Fiona Harvey, Alisha Gupta, Jennifer Morgan, Meagan Fallone, Valérie Frey, Caren Grown, Nimco Ali Obe, Gary Barker, Delphine O, and Roopa Dhatt had to say.

Here’s a look at some of the stories shared by our media partners as part of the first edition of the Towards Equality media alliance, in English: