Youth representative: Ms. Mayada Adil, Sudanese, at the 2023 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (SDG Summit) under the auspices of the General Assembly.
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The SDG Summit, taking place at the 78th United Nations General Assembly, marks the halfway point of the Sustainable Development Goals.
“This is a moment of solidarity for our global village at our global Town Hall - the United Nations,” said Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed. “With only 15% of the SDG targets on track, it is time to come together to find just and equitable solutions and take them to scale.”
During high-level week of the General Assembly, the SDG Pavilion will host a series of Halftime Talks - a collaborative mix of panel discussions, lightning talks, demonstrations, and films, as well as artistic performances focused on just and equitable solutions.
The UN Office for Partnerships is working with Project Everyone, a not-for-profit communications agency co-founded by SDG Advocate and screenwriter Richard Curtis, in collaboration with renowned artist Es Devlin, to create the SDG Pavilion, a unique convening space and art exhibition.
To use a sporting analogy, the world is down halftime. However, the good news is that any given match is won in the second half. The SDG Pavilion programming encourages participants to imagine winning.
The programme can be found at www.sdghalftime.org
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Mayada Adil is a Sudanese medical doctor, fashion designer, women’s rights advocate for health equity and a refugee rights activist. Based in France, Mayada has worked on campaigns focused on ending gender-based violence, specifically against female genital mutilation in Sudan and Mali.
Mayada was selected by the French Foreign Ministry to represent Sudanese youth at the Paris Conference for Sudan in 2021, where she also addressed the French President Emmanuel Macron and emphasized the important role of the youth in facilitating a democratic transition and enacting political and economic change. Mayada has also represented Sudanese women at the Generation Equality Forum, where she addressed the importance of integrating refugee women in societies and communities across France.
Mayada co-founded the LaLoupeCreative artistic platform, which aims to outreach to refugee artists around the world to provide them with an opportunity to participate in a training programme that can help develop their skills and create “art clinics”.
She is also recognized as a climate advocate and creative champion of the We!Are campaign by Crtve Development - a pan-African social agency that champions change on the African continent through storytelling and campaigning on key issues, including climate justice, food security, gender equality, health equity, migration, and peace.