Women and gender issues

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at the town hall meeting with civil society on the occasion of the sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York today:

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners today launched a $852.4 million response plan for nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees and their Bangladeshi hosts. Ninety-five per cent of Rohingya households in Bangladesh are vulnerable and dependent on humanitarian aid.

The Commission on the Status of Women met this morning to hold ministerial round tables.

From redistributing care work to tax reform, financially inclusive policies are needed at the domestic and international levels to erase women’s poverty and ensure gender equality, the Commission on the Status of Women heard today from ministers and officials around the world as it continued its sixty-eighth session.

With hard-won progress in the rights of women and girls under unprecedented threat, and sexual violence in conflict rising around the world, speakers warned the Commission on the Status of Women that even in 2024, “poverty has a female face”, as it opened its annual session today.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Commission on the Status of Women, in New York today:

In Chad, the UN, aid partners and the Government today launched the 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, which seeks $1.1 billion to help 4.6 million there, with a priority focus on food security and nutrition as the country braces for what could be the worst lean season in over a decade.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the United Nations observance of International Women’s Day, in New York today:

In Mozambique, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) today warned that more than 110,000 people have been displaced since the end of 2023 by the resurgence of attacks by non-State armed groups in a distressing escalation of the situation in the Cabo Delgado Province.

In Somalia, the deputy heads of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Food and Agriculture Organization arrived in the country today on a joint mission to urge continued global support for Somalis suffering from the impact of hunger, conflict and climate change.