International Women’s Day 2026 • A Future Worth Building
International Women’s Day 2026 calls for Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls. Mobility is central to all three.
Insights from a 2025 Changing Transport’s survey of women working in transport revealed a clear message: safety is the foundation of freedom of movement. Without safety, access to education, work, healthcare, and public life remains restricted. Without freedom of movement, transport systems cannot be just, inclusive, or sustainable.
For this year’s International Women’s Day, the Global Alliance for Feminist Transport invites you to imagine the year 2035 — the final year of the UN Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026–2035).
What must change between now and then to ensure that women and girls can move safely, everywhere?
Why 2035?
The UN Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026–2035) represents a critical ten-year window to reshape mobility systems worldwide, not only to make them cleaner and more efficient, but fairer, safer, and inclusive by design.
Our Call for Impact No One Left Behind sets out ten concrete objectives to ensure that gender equity, care, accessibility, and inclusion are embedded in transport policies, investments, and governance structures throughout the decade.
By imagining 2035 — the end of this global policy window — we reflect on what actions must be taken today to make safety and freedom of movement a lived reality for all women and girls.
The Campaign
This campaign adopts a future-oriented perspective.
It is 2035. Safety is no longer an issue when I use transport. This is what it looks like:
We invite participants to respond from within this imagined future.
- What has changed?
- What decisions were made?
- What made safety the norm rather than the exception?
The campaign runs throughout March 2026, beginning on International Women’s Day (8 March) and continuing with shared contributions, reflections, and amplifications across our networks.
How to Participate
The campaign is open to a wide range of creative expressions. You can contribute with:
- A drawing (including children’s drawings)
- A photograph
- A short reflection or poem
- A video
- A policy idea or outline
- Any creative interpretation of your 2035 vision
Use the hashtags #FeministTransport #ForAllWomenAndGirls and tag us on Instagram and LinkedIn so that we can amplify your contribution throughout March.
To access the social media templates and participation guidelines, please click on the button below.