Low women’s empowerment and large gender gaps are commonplace in many parts of the world, the UN’s lead agencies on gender equality and international development said in a new report published on Tuesday 18 july, 2023. Out of 114 countries studied, none has achieved full gender parity, the report by UN Women and the UN […]
2023 marks two decades since the adoption of the Maputo Protocol. The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) is arguably the most progressive legally binding instrument on women’s and human rights instruments globally. A total of 44 African countries have signed […]
The international community must act now to protect future generations from the scourge of conflict-related sexual violence, the UN’s advocate on the issue, Pramila Patten, told the Security Council on Friday July 14 , 2023. “Every new wave of warfare brings with it a rising tide of human tragedy, including new waves of war’s oldest, most […]
For 96 hours, the orders kept coming. By the end, 287 people were dead, 387 women and children had been raped, and 13 villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had been robbed of any sense of normalcy. The trial of Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka was the most emblematic, complex case the court in North […]
More than 120 million girls are out of school and the world must do more to ensure they can get an education, Nobel laureate and UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai said in Abuja, Nigeria on Wednesday july 12, 2023, her 26th birthday. The Pakistani education advocate – who was shot by the Taliban for […]
As many as 783 million people faced hunger worldwide in 2022 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including in Ukraine, according to a study launched by five United Nations agencies on Wednesday12 july 2023. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World revealed that between 691 and […]
At eight billion strong, the “human family is larger than ever”, but leaders are failing in efforts to ensure a peaceful and prosperous world for all, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message to mark World Population Day on Tuesday 11 july, 2023. “Halfway to the 2030 deadline the Sustainable Development Goals are dangerously […]
Government, civil society and private sector partners convened in New York on Monday by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to address the urgent need to put the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track. The ambitious set of objectives agreed in 2015 for people and planet have been derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Family court systems worldwide are being impacted by “deeply embedded gender bias” which is leaving women and children vulnerable to violence and “immense suffering”, an independent UN human rights expert said on Friday 23 june , 2023. “The tendency of family courts to dismiss the history of domestic violence and abuse in custody cases, especially where mothers and/or children […]
Zeinabou Maata, a Muslim from Mauritania, is one of 50 women serving on the frontlines of preventing the spread of violent extremism in her country, with UN support. “Our religion is a true, honest religion that treats women with justice and fairness,” she said, leaning forward for emphasis. She knows of what she speaks. She […]
