Women and gender issues

Following the official installation of the Transitional Presidential Council in Port-au-Prince today, the Secretary-General reiterated his call for the swift deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti to assist the Haitian National Police in addressing the dire security situation in the country.

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today jointly sounded the alarm on the new asylum law and plans to transfer asylum-seekers from the United Kingdom to Rwanda, calling for practical measures instead to address irregular flows of migrants and refugees.

The global escalation of conflict-related sexual violence — disproportionately affecting women and girls — must be addressed through demilitarization, enforcement of arms embargoes, gender-responsive arms control and strengthened accountability, the Security Council heard today during its annual open debate on the matter.

Following is UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s briefing to Member States on the system-wide gender equality acceleration plan, in New York today:

The Commission on the Status of Women met this morning to conclude its sixty-eighth session. After the closure of the sixty-eighth session, the Commission then briefly opened the sixty-ninth session.

The Commission on the Status of Women met this afternoon to conclude its sixty-eighth session. The Commission adopted its report on the work of the session, then suspended the meeting to resume at a later date.

The Commission on the Status of Women met this morning to continue its sixty-eighth session, holding an interactive dialogue on the emerging issue “Artificial intelligence to advance gender equality: challenges and opportunities”.

Transformative care-led strategies, gender-responsive budgeting and greater investments in social services are vital for empowering women and promoting gender equality, panellists told the Commission on the Status of Women today, highlighting the need for changes in the international financial architecture.

Representatives of Member States today delivered voluntary presentations on their national efforts on the review theme “Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls” as the Commission on the Status of Women continued its sixty-eighth session.

Young women and non-binary people want to live on a planet that prioritizes social protection and inclusion and not a world built for heterosexual men, youth delegates told the Commission on the Status of Women, as it continued its sixty-eighth session.