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Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)25 years after the Beijing platform for women's rights, the UN publicises a report to verify achievements and failures. Of the 170 countries' data, no country in the world has achieved gender equality. Success achieved towards gender equality is slim and at risk, says UN Women, body [...]
25 years after the Beijing platform for women's rights, the UN publicises a report to verify achievements and failures. Of the 170 countries' data, no country in the world has achieved gender equality.
Success achieved towards gender equality is slim and at risk, says UN Women, the UN body dealing with gender equality and strengthening women. In a report published now, 25 years after the Beijing conference. UN Women has collected data from 170 countries, and has found that great inequality, climate crisis, complications and exclusive policies are jeopardising the progress achieved with effort.
“Reviewing women's rights showed us that despite the progress achieved by no country in the world has achieved gender equality,” says Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women executive director.
“75 per cent of the parliamentarians in the world are men, men hold 73 per cent of managerial positions, 70 per cent of climate negotiators are men, and nearly all of the peace negotiators are men. This world is not comprehensive and equal to”, says UN Women's chief.
“We are downsized to 20-25 per cent. Today, we go out and say we want to reach 50 percent, working together”. The report also tells of achievements, such as in the field of health and education, the sectors in which it is invested.
Even Silke Staab, who has been dealing with statistical data to draw conclusions for the report, says progress, but very slow, is observed. It shows examples: “has become little in economic empowerment and women's economic progress. Globally, the gender gap in participation in the labour market has remained what has been in the last 20 years. Less than two thirds of women are labor forces, while in men that figure is higher than 90 percent.
“One in five women has faced violence from the partner in the past 12 months,” says Silke Staab. From contributions collected by many countries, laws against domestic violence have been found to be enacted, but implementation of laws and the obligation to implement remains weak.
