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On 3 February 2020, the IGC Global Board unanimously appointed Mr. Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), as its new Chair.

An op-ed signed by International Gender Champions Martin Chungong (IPU) and Caitlin Kraft-Buchman (Women@TheTable).

A year after their selection as a winning project for innovative global governance, the International Gender Champions were back at the second edition of the Paris Peace Forum from 11 to 13 November 2019.

After Geneva, New York, Vienna, Nairobi and The Hague, the International Gender Champions network is excited to announce the launch of a new hub in Paris. Disponible en français également.

At the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum in 2018, the International Gender Champions (IGC) initiative was selected as one of the ten winning projects for innovative governance, out of over a thousand applications.

Launched in The Hague in June 2019, the IGC Justice Impact Group’s first project on advancing understanding of all forms of sexual violence is making steady progress.

With the appointment of Tatiana Valovaya as Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament, disarmament affairs at the UN are for the first time in history led by four women.

A blog by International Gender Champion Tanya Wood and CHS Alliance.

Dr Fidelma Donlon, Registrar of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), established a gender coordination committee within the KSC. This is a forum for people to have open dialogue, share their experiences and also aims to dispel misconceptions about gender in the workplace.

On the occasion of IGC's four-year anniversary, Champions were asked what the most urgent next step is to advance gender equality.

On 1 July 2019, Arancha González, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre, became Chair of the IGC Global Board.

IGC co-founder Michael Møller will complete his mandate as Director-General of UN Geneva at the end of June, thus becoming an IGC Alumnus.