Investing in women and girls is the surest way to achieve SDGs
1 year, 9 months ago

Investing in women and girls is the surest way to achieve SDGs

Hindustan Times  

Around the world, progress on women’s rights is vanishing before our eyes. The deputy secretary-general, Amina Mohammed, recently visited Afghanistan with a message for the authorities: Women and girls have fundamental human rights, and we will never give up fighting for them. We need action on several fronts to make sure women and girls can make their full contribution to the world’s knowledge through science and technology. Women’s rights are not a luxury that can wait until we solve the climate crisis, end poverty, and create a better world. Together, let’s work for a more inclusive, just, and prosperous world for women and girls, men and boys, everywhere.

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International Women's Day 2024: Why girls' education can't wait
9 months, 2 weeks ago

International Women's Day 2024: Why girls' education can't wait

Hindustan Times  

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For an equal future, G20’s gender vision
1 year, 3 months ago

For an equal future, G20’s gender vision

Hindustan Times  

The G20 New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration 2023 can only be described using two adjectives – inclusive and visionary. Right from the outset, the Declaration makes its commitment crystal clear: G20 nations are dedicated to closing gender gaps and promoting “the full, equal, effective, and meaningful participation of women” in the economy as decision-makers. The New Delhi Declaration dedicates a distinct …

Women's Day: UN says women have been erased from public life in Afghanistan, gender equality 300 years away
1 year, 9 months ago

Women's Day: UN says women have been erased from public life in Afghanistan, gender equality 300 years away

Op India  

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes,” and it will take 300 years to bridge that gap, according to the official release from the UN. While addressing the UN session of the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday, Guterres said, “It takes on even greater significance at a …

Why women’s rights matter in COP27
2 years, 1 month ago

Why women’s rights matter in COP27

Al Jazeera  

This has been a year of climate catastrophes for every corner of the globe. New ActionAid research in Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia and Nigeria has found that climate change is also increasing gender-based violence and damaging women’s mental health. In precarious times of climate stress like this, girls are 20 percent more likely to be married early than in times of …

International Women's Day 2022: Women breaking glass ceiling but gender gap challenge remains
2 years, 9 months ago

International Women's Day 2022: Women breaking glass ceiling but gender gap challenge remains

Firstpost  

We still need plenty of reforms to restructure the political and social systems to reshape gender-gap at breakneck speed Glass ceilings are meant to be broken; women are busy breaking free, and women are on a glass breaking spree. From the abolition of ‘Sati’ practice, the passing of the widow remarriage act, prohibition of child marriages, and the universal suffrage …

Behaviour change and not just ‘good intentions’ will help men become better advocates of gender equality
3 years, 6 months ago

Behaviour change and not just ‘good intentions’ will help men become better advocates of gender equality

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. According to David Smith and Brad Johnson, the authors of Good Guys: How Men Can Be …

On International Women’s Day, we must not let a year of Covid reverse decades of progress in gender equality
3 years, 9 months ago

On International Women’s Day, we must not let a year of Covid reverse decades of progress in gender equality

The Independent  

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This Women’s Day, I Wish Gender Justice Isn’t Just a Utopian Ideal
3 years, 9 months ago

This Women’s Day, I Wish Gender Justice Isn’t Just a Utopian Ideal

The Quint  

What I want this International Women's Day is a change in how our system responds to cases of violence against women and girls. As a young woman, it never ceases to amaze me that people still use the term “gender equality” as if it were an unattainable, utopian ideal. Perhaps one of the most important conversations of our time, at …

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