At the current rate, it will take 300 years to achieve equality between men and womenwarned the UN Secretary-General on Monday, Anthony Guterreson the eve of International Women’s Day.
“The progress made in decades is evaporating before our eyes,” Guterres warned at the opening of a meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women focused on the technology gap.
“At the current rate, UN Women expects it will take 300 years” for gender equality, she warned after recalling the situation in Afghanistan, where women and girls have been “erased from public life”, reproductive rights and sexual Women’s relationships in many parts are “in decline” without regard to the risks of kidnapping, beatings in some countries, even by the police.
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“The patriarchy is fighting back, but we will respond,” Guterres said, assuring the UN “remain on the side of women and girls around the world” because “we will never give up” for their fundamental rights.
Having “misogynistic misinformation and untruths” on social networks the goal of “silencing women and forcing them out of public life”he remembered.
“The stories may be false, but the damage is very real,” she recalled, after urging “change international frameworks” that are not adapted to the needs and aspirations of women and girls around the world.” where there are countries that “resist the inclusion of the gender perspective in multilateral negotiations”.
On the subject of the meeting, Guterres said so promoting women’s contributions to science, technology and innovation “is not an act of charity or a favor to women”.
From their access to online medical services, banking and financial resources, to secure digital platforms or technology, the benefits “are for everyone,” he recalls.
“Without the insight and creativity of half the world, science and technology will realize only half of their potential.” warned Guterres, recalling that of the 3 billion people who still do not have access to the internet, the majority are women and girls in developing countries.
Source: Eluniverso
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