Seizing the moment for gender justice
Summary from a closed-door session of gender justice leaders at Studio 5 on the margins of Women Deliver 2026
Why convening matters now
Around the world, the backlash against gender equality is coordinated, well-resourced and operating at scale. Too often, the actors committed to equality – governments, multilaterals, philanthropies, movements, civil society – respond in isolation, without the shared evidence, strategies and narratives needed to act together. That fragmentation creates openings for well-funded anti-gender forces.
Analysis alone is no longer enough. In Dialogue exists to close that gap: to build the alliances, strategies and narratives that can counter the backlash and advance gender justice collectively.
Our In Dialogue series
At a moment when the forces working against equality are organised, well-funded and operating at scale, we believe that convening the right people around the right questions is not a luxury. It is a necessity.
Each event brings together leading thinkers, advocates, practitioners and decision-makers to examine a pressing challenge – and to move from analysis to action. In Dialogue is where Global 50/50’s evidence meets the people with the power and the commitment to use it.
In Dialogue builds on Global 50/50’s track record of convening high-impact dialogues with partners including UNFPA, UN Women, WomenLift Health, ICRW, CREA, the Lancet and Chatham House.
The organised many: results of our 2026 convening series and gender justice survey
In 2026 we held four In Dialogue events alongside a gender justice survey. Our cross-convening report draws together what we heard – the shared challenges, the emerging priorities, and a gender justice agenda for action.
Read the Action Agenda
Recent events
Global 50/50 brings together global leaders, researchers, practicioners and advocates working to advance gender justice, including during global moments such as the United Nations General Assemnly and the Commission on the Status of Women.
Sex and Gender Differences in Health: Evidence, Power, and Pathways to Action
A two-day convening of the Lancet Commission on gender and global health and the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, hosted by Fondation Brocher.
Defending Gender Justice: Resolve not Retreat
Roundtable of gender justice and global health leaders, co-hosted by Global 50/50 and The Lancet Geneva on the margins of the World Health Assembly
Whose justice? Gender and power in South Asia’s legal institutions: watch
Six months after publishing Gender (In)Justice?, we convened with the Asia Justice Coalition to ask what the findings look like from inside South Asia’s legal institutions.
Gender justice in the age of the manosphere
In March 2026, Global 50/50 launched its In Dialogue series — a new convening space for the urgent conversations that gender justice demands.
Launch of the inaugural Global Justice 50/50 Report: watch
“When you see yourself in a person sitting on the bench, it shapes how you understand and perceive justice and how you experience it.”
Get involved
Interested in taking part in a future In Dialogue or partnering with us on a convening? We'd love to hear from you.
