Thirty years ago, at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, leaders from 189 countries and over 30,000 activists came together to create a visionary roadmap for achieving equal rights for women and girls. This roadmap, known as the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, became the most widely endorsed global agenda for women’s […]
Nearly half the world’s population – 3.6 billion people – had major elections in 2024, but it was also a year that saw the slowest rate of growth in female representation for 20 years. Twenty-seven new parliaments now have fewer women than they did before the elections – countries such as the US, Portugal, Pakistan, […]
Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual abuse. Listen to Andrew read this story Each morning, the queues began forming before dawn. Groups of women – always women – stood in the autumn chill on a pavement beside a busy ring road, outside Avignon’s glass and concrete courthouse. They came, day after day. Some brought […]
PRESS RELEASE The 50% Movement has been closely following the national presidential election held on december 7, 2024 in Ghana which brought professor NAANA JANE OPOKU-AGYEMANG to the post of Vice President. The 50% Movement welcomes professor NAANA JANE OPOKU-AGYEMANG, the new Vice President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. The 50% Movement would like […]
An unfavorable political system and social barriers keep women from politics As more African nations seek to encourage gender parity in government positions, some African countries are struggling to fully integrate women into the political sphere. A recent report by the Policy and Legacy Advocacy Centre (PLAC), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit capacity-building organization that works […]
The number of victims of human trafficking detected globally is rising again after falling off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its latest report on the issue, covering 156 countries. The 2024 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons reveals a 25 per cent increase between 2022 and […]
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Nairobi on Tuesday to denounce rising femicide cases in Kenya, only to face a violent police crackdown that left many injured and dispersed. Protesters, chanting “Stop femicide,” had gathered to highlight the alarming number of killings of women and girls in the country. Police responded with teargas, […]
Ghana has turned a new page in its democratic journey by electing Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the nation’s first female Vice President-elect. Running alongside President-elect John Dramani Mahama, her historic win under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) banner in the 2024 elections has been widely celebrated as a groundbreaking achievement for gender representation in […]
Human Rights Day, marked annually on 10 December, will focus on the theme Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now. UN News app users can follow our live coverage here. Source:news.un.org
The UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, appealed on Thursday december 5, 2024 for $1.4 billion to safeguard the rights and well-being of women, girls and youth in 57 crisis-affected countries in the coming year. The funding will be used to deliver life-saving reproductive health services and vital gender-based violence prevention programmes to more […]
