{"id":26191,"date":"2020-10-04T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T09:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=26191"},"modified":"2020-10-04T22:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:44:49","slug":"womens-rights-are-under-attack-un-marks-25-years-since-beijing-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/chief-editors-choice\/womens-rights-are-under-attack-un-marks-25-years-since-beijing-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"’Women\u2019s rights are under attack’: UN marks 25 years since Beijing declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"

One by one, leaders and ministers from over 100 nations admitted Thursday that 25 years after the adoption of a road map to achieve equality for women not a single country has reached that goal \u2014 and many warned that instead of progress there is now push back. French President Emmanuel Macron put it bluntly, \u201cwomen\u2019s rights are under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing a high-level meeting to commemorate the landmark 1995 U.N. women\u2019s conference in Beijing, Macron said it\u2019s no secret that the 150-page blueprint to realise gender equality approved by 189 nations in the Chinese capital \u201cwould have no chance of being adopted\u201d in 2020. So \u201cthis is no time for commemoration or self-congratulation,\u201d he warned, because progress achieved by women \u201cis being undermined, even in our democracies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beijing declaration and platform called for bold action in 12 areas for women and girls, including combating poverty and gender-based violence, ensuring all girls get an education and putting women at top levels of business and government, as well as at peacemaking tables. It also said, for the first time in a U.N. document, that women\u2019s human rights include the right to control and decide \u201con matters relating to their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health, free of discrimination, coercion and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Macron said in his prerecorded speech that progress is being undercut \u201cstarting with the freedom for women to control their own bodies, and in particular the right to abortion.\u201d And he cited continuing inequalities in schooling, pay, domestic work, and political representation. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has attributed gender inequality to \u201ccenturies of discrimination, deep-rooted patriarchy and misogyny.\u201d In today\u2019s more divided, conservative and still very male-dominated societies, he said, \u201cwe have seen around the world a pushback against gender equality and women\u2019s rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.N. Women\u2019s Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka pointed to 131 countries that enacted legislation to advance gender equality in the last 10 years, the prosecution of gender-related crimes during conflicts, increased school enrollment of girls, and advances in maternal health. But she also stressed significant \u201cpush back\u201d on reproductive rights and other issues in developed countries, including the United States, and in the European Union. In Africa and Asia, she said, there are governments \u201cthat have not felt any pressure\u201d to move forward on gender equality.<\/p>\n

Source: France24<\/a><\/p>\n

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