The global backlash against women’s and girls’ rights has reached extreme proportions in certain countries, threatening to undo decades of progress, experts told the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, as delegates underlined the need to transform structures of inequality and discrimination.
Following is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ message for the International Day of the Girl Child, observed on 11 October:
Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the High-Level Side Event: Ways to Include Women in the Future of Afghanistan, in New York today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at “Accelerating Spotlight Initiative’s high-impact effort to end violence against women and girls”, in New York today:
The Security Council today examined the impacts of the Taliban’s new morality law on women and girls in Afghanistan, with speakers calling on the de facto authorities to reverse course and strengthen their engagement with the international community.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reports that a vicious cycle of climate change, wildfires and air pollution is having a spiralling negative impact on human health, ecosystems and agriculture.
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the closing of the 2024 World Women’s Forum, in Ulaanbaatar today:
Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks at the 2024 World Women’s Forum, in Ulaanbaatar today:
With the seventy-eighth session drawing to a close, the General Assembly today adopted numerous texts on a variety of topics, including one that honours the history, culture and struggles of women and girls of African descent around the world.
The grave situation in Sudan offers fundamental lessons for drawdowns and terminations of United Nations peacekeeping missions in other transition contexts where women’s lives are at stake — such as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Somalia and Haiti — the Security Council heard today, as delegates underscored the need to integrate a gender perspective into all components of peace missions.
