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UN launches gender equality plan: ‘We’re at a turning point’

·March 12, 2025·1 min read

From embarking on a digital revolution to fill the gaping gender divide to ensuring a seat at decision making tables, the new plan builds on the landmark 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which presented a blueprint for achieving gender equality and advancing women’s rights. UN Women chief Sima...

World’s largest conference on women calls for equality amid gender backlash

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·March 11, 2025·4 min read

The 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), which runs from 10 to 21 March, is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of their lives throughout the world and shaping global standards on gender equality and empowerment. Last year, CSW68 was attended by 100...

Women and girls continue to be killed, based on gender alone

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·October 3, 2023·2 min read

“Women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their sex and gender, rendered more vulnerable to femicide when being women and girls intersect with other grounds or identities,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on the issue – whose brief includes examining the causes and consequences of...

Gender gap persists on road to the SDGs: UN Women

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·September 11, 2023·1 min read

The world is falling worryingly short in terms of closing the gender gap as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) warned UN Women on Thursday....

Iran: Draft hijab law tantamount to ‘gender apartheid’ say rights experts

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·September 3, 2023·2 min read

“The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission,” the independent experts said. They stressed that the proposed parliamentary Bill to Support the Family by Promoting the...

UN teams up with FIFA at Women’s World Cup in score for gender equality

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·July 20, 2023·2 min read

The tournament is expected to be watched by more than two billion people – the largest audience for a single women’s sport in history – offering an opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements in all sports and advocate for gender equality more generally. Women players continue to struggle with fewer professional...

Majority of women live in countries with large gender gaps, UN report reveals

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·July 19, 2023·1 min read

Out of 114 countries studied, none has achieved full gender parity, the report by UN Women and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has revealed. Moreover, fewer than one per cent of women and girls globally live in a country with both high women’s empowerment and a small gender gap in...

UN calls for gender equality push, central to SDGs

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·July 12, 2023·2 min read

“Halfway to the 2030 deadline the Sustainable Development Goals are dangerously off track,” he warned. “Gender equality is almost 300 years away. Progress on maternal health and access to family planning has been glacial.” World Population Day is commemorated annually on 11 July and this year’s focus is on unleashing...

Gender inequalities in food and agriculture are costing world $1 trillion: FAO

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·April 13, 2023·3 min read

Over one third of the world’s working women are employed in agrifood systems, which include the production of food and non-food agricultural products, as well as related activities from food storage, transportation and processing to distribution. But in a new report, FAO says that gender inequalities such as less access...

Flagship UN gender event closes with ‘blueprint’ for greater role of women in tech

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·March 18, 2023·3 min read

The priority theme for this year’s CSW, an annual, two-week long event which has been advancing rights for women since 1946, was the ongoing discrimination, abuse, and misogyny women face in the virtual world. The aim was to advance progress towards levelling the digital playing field, and to address persistent...

‘We are not afraid’: Indigenous Brazilian women stand up to gender violence

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·January 21, 2023·3 min read

In Parque das Tribos, an indigenous neighbourhood in Manaus, the capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, violence against women is not uncommon. “As a leader, I have experienced many things,” says Lutana Ribeiro, a member of the Kokama ethnic group, and the only female chief in Parque das Tribos, which is...

Scottish Parliament urged to adopt gender recognition reform

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·December 19, 2022·1 min read

Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN Special Rapporteur on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, said in a statement that he was worried that stigma and prejudice against trans women could be behind efforts to postpone consideration of the Bill – which has one remaining stage to...