Impact
The IPU facilitates parliamentary diplomacy and empowers parliaments and parliamentarians to promote peace, democracy and sustainable development around the world.
The 15th Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament (15SWSP) was held on 28 July 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, on the theme Leading for inclusive and lasting peace. Thirty of the world’s leading women legislators took part in the Summit.
The outcomes of the deliberations of the 15SWSP resulted in a final declaration which contributed to the Conference’s proceedings and fed into the proceedings of the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament (6WCSP) thus making gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls a priority on the agenda of all parliaments.
