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The United Nations celebrated the International Women’s Day on Friday 08 March, an opportunity for the UN Secretary General to call to choose “action rather than apathy” to reach gender equality and a better world for everyone.
“On this International Women’s Day, we are celebrating thirty years of advances and progress made since the United Nations Historic Conference organized in Beijing,” said UN video chief António Guterres, recalling that this conference transformed women’s rights and allowed to reaffirm that they were human rights.
“Since then, women and girls have overthrown the barriers, broke the stereotypes and claimed the place that returns to them. But we must be lucid about the challenges to be met. Strunged or limited, the human rights of women are threatened, “warned the UN chief. “Instead of observing a generalization of equal rights, we are witnessing the trivialization of misogyny”.
A report published this week by the UN agency for gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN Women) shows that in 2024, almost a quarter of governments around the world reported a decline in women’s rights.
Another report published by the International Labor Organization (ILO) indicates that women still meet significant barriers on the labor market. Despite the reduction in the employment gap between women and men, the employment rate of women remains much lower than that of men.
In this context, the secretary general called to act in the face of the threats which aim for women’s rights and to “continue to work so that women and girls have the same chances as men and boys”.
