Tackling current complex challenges requires fresh thinking and bolder political leadership to address abuses and find solutions, the UN rights chief said on Tuesday, presenting his annual global report to the Human Rights Council. The current human rights landscape is compounded by conflict, discrimination, poverty, shrinking civic spaces, and the emergence of new human rights […]
New goals and effective plans on women’s involvement in peacebuilding are needed before it is too late, the head of the UN agency leading global efforts to achieve gender equality warned the Security Council on Tuesday. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, was speaking during a Council meeting to reaffirm the importance of Resolution 1325 on women, peace […]
A United Nations conference under way in Doha, Qatar, has turned its attention to one of the most nettlesome global challenges: closing the staggeringly wide digital divide between the world’s rich and poor nations. Fresh attention to this issue comes as a new UN report finds that two-thirds of the population of the least developed […]
In a new blow for equality in the 21st century workplace, UN labour experts said on Monday 6th March 2023 that women’s access to jobs, their employment conditions and a persistent pay gap, have barely improved worldwide in nearly two decades. The jobs gap for women is a “stubborn and damaging reality of the global labour market” but […]
Closing the major gender gap in innovation and technology is the focus of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which opened at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday 6th March 2023. Over the next two weeks, participants from across the world – including representatives from governments, the UN, […]
Ayesha Amin is a tech and gender activist and social entrepreneur from Pakistan. She is the founder of the youth- and women-led organization Baithak—Challenging Taboos, a Generation Equality Commitment Maker working to expand access to information on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Having experienced first-hand the discriminatory structure of the tech world, Ayesha highlights […]
For the first time ever, there are women MPs in every single country on Earth, the Interparliamentary Union, IPU, said on Friday. In its latest annual report, the global body dedicated to promoting peace through parliamentary diplomacy and dialogue, also said that women’s participation has never been as diverse as it is in many countries on Friday 4th […]
PRESS RELEASE “Reform fatigue” poses obstacle to economic growth at a critical time WASHINGTON, March. 2, 2023—The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report […]
Priority must be given to investments in women and youth in all facets of the AfCFTA implementation arrangements The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has huge potential to harness the power of women and youth to realize its true potential. The African Union’s (AU) timely efforts to accelerate the implementation of the AfCFTA is a […]
Violence against African women and the widespread violation of their basic human rights is shaped by societal and cultural barriers. In Nigeria, women’s rights appear to be protected. The country is a signatory to many international conventions and norms such as the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the […]
