![]() “Peace feels painfully distant, war painfully prevalent, suffering painfully ubiquitous.” Last week Guterres said achieving legal gender equality could take 300 years, and on Monday he cited two worrying trends: Patriarchy is regaining ground as autocrats and populists attack women’s freedoms and their sexual and reproductive rights, and the domination of digital technologies and artificial intelligence by men is leaving women’s needs and rights ignored.īahous told the commission that a backlash against gender equality is rising “with a ferocity and anger that is unfamiliar to many of us,” she said. He reiterated his call for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza and a silencing of guns in all conflicts including Sudan. He noted Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that started Monday in Gaza, should be a time of compassion, but instead families are struggling to survive. U.N., Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the second speaker, told the meeting that women and girls are suffering most “from wars waged by men,” singling out Gaza. “Our thoughts are with you as we strive for peace,” he said. Lagdameo, the commission chair who opened the meeting, asked participants to express solidarity with all women and girls in conflict situations. I feel the energy in the room is getting better as we see more women coming to the stage.” The audience applauded loudly.Īlmost every speaker - male and female - spoke of the plight of women and girls caught in conflict, especially in the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza. Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, began by saying: “It’s great to be here. agency promoting women’s rights and gender equality to take a seat on the podium. Ambassador Antonio Lagdameo, invited the head of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, along with addressing poverty.Īfter a speech by a young woman from Malawi representing youth, the commission’s chair, Philippines U.N. Now, she said, “our women want to go from microcredit to micro-enterprise” so “there has never been a better time to invest in women” - a theme of this year’s meeting of the U.N. Sinha moved from Mumbai to a drought-prone village in India’s Maharashtra state three decades ago and helped local women start a bank. The first woman to speak was sixth in line, Chetna Gala Sinha, who represented civil society and was loudly cheered when she was called to the podium. So, he said, “you are getting the male vice president, adding to the agenda disbalance of this opening.” ![]() Economic and Social Council, apologized for the absence of the council’s president, a woman, who had a family emergency. Ambassador Ivan Šimonović, the third male speaker representing the U.N. He said he had two choices: “Don’t speak or stand up” and support gender equality.Ĭroatia’s U.N. ![]()
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