Empowering women is critical to meeting some of the most pressing challenges of our time. Yet, despite making up half of the world’s population, women face widespread and significant barriers to equality. On International Women's Day, we convene visionaries, leaders, and innovators from around the world to tackle the issues of harmful stereotypes that prevent women from reaching their potential.

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On International Women's Day, we convene visionaries, leaders, and innovators from around the world to tackle the issues of harmful stereotypes that prevent women from reaching their potential.

Dubai Exhibition Centre - Audio Guide

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Take in conferences and performances a mere 300 metres away from Al Wasl Plaza.

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Expo 2020 connects minds from around the globe. These connections are not limited to the pavilions and parks, but also extend to the vast Dubai Exhibition Centre: a new, state-of-the-art venue for conferences, concerts and more. 

Conveniently located next to the recently completed Expo 2020 metro station, with striking views of the magnificent domed Al Wasl Plaza, the DEC offers 45,000 square metres of customisable event space, 14 exhibition and multi-use halls, on-site catering, and best-in-class audio-visual resources.


A light geometric pattern decorates the DEC’s extraordinarily broad front façade, which features a giant overhanging arch over the entrance to the central plaza area, as well as sloped surfaces that seem to angle away from the entrance like a pair of wings

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Co-curated with Cartier, the International Women's Day sheds light on women leadership by tackling the issues of harmful stereotypes and negative social norms that prevent women from reaching their potential in myriad sectors and industries. Expo 2020 Dubai celebrates this special day organising a forum hosting high-calibre leaders, public figures, gender advocates and youth leaders. Governments, Corporations and changemakers deliberate on silent or invisible gender-based discrimination in professional settings, with the aim of inspiring stakeholders to commit to adopting practices and policies dedicated to gender equality and women's leadership.

International Women's Day

Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow

International Women's Day 2022

Inside Expo: The Brave Women

Women's Pavilion - Audio Guide

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Women make tremendous contributions to the world, yet many remain unknown or forgotten. The Women’s Pavilion in collaboration with Cartier at Expo 2020 challenges this imbalance by taking visitors on a journey through the remarkable achievements of women across the globe. Our showcase underscores the principle that “When women thrive, all of humanity thrives”.

The pavilion showcases the exceptional accomplishments of women, world-famous and unknown. Immerse yourself in the triumphs of women through history, discover the journeys women have taken to claim their equality and dive into the stories of the inspirational women shaping our future.


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Globe-spanning tour of women’s achievements and ongoing challenges

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Multisensory exhibition created by actor/artist Mélanie Laurent and Emirati artists

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Majlis-inspired social space for live conversations and events

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Reflecting the UAE’s commitment to women’s empowerment and gender equality, the Women’s Pavilion serves as a catalyst for social transformation, both in Dubai and far beyond. By championing exceptional women, it aims to inspire dialogue, shatter gender misconceptions, and leave a lasting legacy of positive change for women worldwide.

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Diversity and inclusion are, and will continue to be, strategic factors that support “Building together, a better and sustainable future.”

Societe Generale is proud to partner with the Women's Pavilion where, under its commitment to the Global Compact UAE and the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), it will join a series of diverse panel conversations about diversity and inclusion in the Energy Sector that focus on challenges, best practices, research, and insights from experienced leaders and partners in the region.

This second session of our “Series of Talks by Societe Generale” will focus on things from a HR perspective.


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Learning and Development : Corporate Moving Towards A More Inclusive Workplace

A panel discussion centred around diversity and inclusion in the Energy Sector, led by SOCIETE GENERALE MIDDLE EAST. 


Learning and Development: Corporate Moving Towards A More Inclusive Workplace

Under the title “New Perspectives”, the Women’s World Majlis programme invites you to recognise a fundamental principle: when women thrive, humanity thrives.

The programme highlights the impact women have made on society and shines a light on their often forgotten contributions. By shifting perspectives, we embrace the infinite approaches to a more balanced world.

A common vision for a unique collaboration; sustainable development goals and aspirations for a peaceful and prosperous world cannot be achieved without gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Sharing this vision, Expo 2020 Dubai and Cartier celebrate women changemakers around the globe, asserting our conviction that innovative collaboration between the private sector, civil society and committed individuals is the pathway to meaningful change.

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When women thrive, humanity thrives. A common vision for a unique collaboration.

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The First Lady of Brazil, Michelle Bolsonaro, discusses her personal vision and journey, on theme of ‘When Women Thrive, Humanity Thrives’. 

To join this session in person at the Women’s Pavilion Majlis, RSVP to wpmajlis.guest@auditoire.com

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A discussion with the First Lady of Brazil, Michelle Bolsonaro. 

Join the event, and interact with the First Lady, via https://zoom.us/j/91882436945 


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As the caretakers of Earth’s mightiest waterway, the epic Amazon River, Brazilians have a unique appreciation of the beauty, power and importance of our shared water resources. Now, with the meditative Brazil Pavilion, they’ve brought an authentic, multisensory Amazonian experience to the Dubai desert. Strikingly fashioned from tensile steel and white fabric, the pavilion recreates the sights, sounds and even aromas of the Amazon basin, complete with a thin flood of water in the main exhibit area and immersive projections of the rainforest all around. And don’t worry: If you’d rather not get your feet wet, boots will be provided.


Panoramic projections onto the pavilion’s exterior.

Restaurant featuring the flavours of Brazil.

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The Brazil Pavilion is an immense, shallow rectangular pool carved with gentle curves. A boxy, 18-metre-high steel structure stretched with translucent, white fabric panels seems to float over the pool on columns, referencing Brazil’s riverside stilt houses. 

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The First Lady of Brazil, Michelle Bolsonaro, Live From the Women's Pavilion

Ambassador Mariam Yalwaji Katagum is an educationist, administrator and diplomat with leadership experience in the Nigerian public service and the United Nations. She was appointed Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, on 21st August 2019. 

Ambassador Katagum is leading the promotion of the Nigerian government’s policies of Ease of Doing Business, job creation, poverty eradication and industrialisation, implementing various policies and programmes including: standardisation of bilateral trade agreements, stimulating growth of domestic Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and renewed roadmap to increase Nigeria’s Foreign Direct Investment.

If you would like to join this session in person at the Women's Pavilion Majlis, RSVP wpmajlis.guest@auditoire.com

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A discussion with Ambassador Mariam Yalwaji Katagum, Nigeria’s Minister for State for Industry, Trade and Investment.

Join the event, and interact with the Ambassador, via https://zoom.us/j/98804731778


Ambassador Mariam Yalwaji Katagum is an educationist, administrator and diplomat with leadership experience in the Nigerian public service and within the United Nations System.
She was appointed Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, on 21st August 2019. 

Ambassador Katagum, with her counterpart, are leading the promotion of government’s policies of Ease of Doing Business, job creation, poverty eradication and industrialization, implementing various policies and programmes including: standardization of bilateral trade agreements, stimulating growth of domestic Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and renewed roadmap to increase Nigeria’s Foreign Direct Investment.

If you would like to join this session at the Women's Pavilion Majlis in person, RSVP to the following email: wpmajlis.guest@auditoire.com

#BreaktheBias Forum

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