The Deutscher Frauenrat (National Council of German Women’s Organizations) is hosting the 2022 Women7 Dialogue during Germany’s G7 presidency. As an umbrella organization of around 60 nationwide women’s associations and organizations, the Deutscher Frauenrat is the biggest women’s lobby in Germany. Through a multi-stage consultation process, W7 Germany brings together an international network of feminist civil society organizations and advocacy groups with the aim of placing gender equality at the center of G7 negotiations and formulating powerful demands to G7 leaders. At the W7 Summit on May 24 – 25 in Berlin, the W7 Communiqué was handed over to Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Women7 (W7) is a group of civil society organizations that come together to promote proposals on gender equality and women’s rights within the G7 process. Building on feminist principles of intersectionality and inclusion, W7 aims to bring together voices from civil society around the world to critically reflect on and inform G7 outcomes. Its objective is to ensure that G7 leaders make concrete political and financial commitments that can have a tangible, lasting and transformative impact on the lives of women and girls in all their diversity. Women7 hosts rotate on an annual basis along with the G7 presidencies. Read more