A leadership network with over 000 Champions and 000 Alumni.

I am happy to be an International Gender Champion. I encourage other senior leaders to be part of this campaign for equality.

António Guterres

Secretary-General, United Nations

Women's equality and women's rights are not negotiable. Let women shine and shape their societies. 50:50 in parliaments and everywhere.

Brigitte Brenner

Ambassador, Permanent Observer of the IPU to the UN and other International Organizations in Vienna, Inter-Parliamentary Union

A society is only truly transformed when its women are educated and empowered.

Rapulane Sydney Molekane

Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the International Organisations in Vienna , Embassy and Permanent Representation of the Republic of South Africa to Austria

Gender inequality is not a woman’s fight alone; it is a collective effort and we each have a part to play in balancing the scales towards a more equal society.

Zainab Hawa Bangura

Director-General, United Nations Office at Nairobi

Without true gender equality in everything that the United Nations is, we cannot hope to promote any dimension of equality in the world we serve.

Stephen Jackson

UN Resident Coordinator in China, China Resident Coordinator's Office

Given the clear relationship between nuclear weapons and gender, nuclear disarmament must be raised in conversations about gender, women's rights and equality.

Melissa Parke

Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

I am personally convinced that gender equality makes ICCT a more effective and relevant organisation externally, and a better place to work in internally.

Thomas Renard

Director, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)