A free 24 hour online festival this weekend will be the first ever global festival focused on women and girls, travelling live around the world everywhere from the UK to Nigeria, and Pakistan to Australia exploring the intersectional impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality, and responding to Black Lives Matter.
Speakers include WOW Founder Jude Kelly with Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard; former President of Ireland Mary Robinson; singer and activist Annie Lennox and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Legendary activist Angela Davis live in conversation with Jude Kelly Patrick Stewart and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, President of The WOW Foundation to speak on domestic abuse Further speakers announced include: Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich; author Mikki Kendall; Sister Helen Prejean; Executive Director of Hawaii’s Commission on the Status of Women, Khara Jabola-Carolus; Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; education activist from Sierra Leone Chernor Bah; writer Jane Caro; Indian disability and gender rights activist Nidhi Goyal; and Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres Readings from actors including Gillian Anderson and Thandie Newton Music from artists including Shingai, Les Amazones d’Afrique, Emel Mathlouthi, Helen Epega (The Venus Bushfires) and Muthoni Drummer Queen.