Archive for March 4th, 2020

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04/03/2020

World Remains a ‘Violent, Highly Discriminatory Place’ for Girls

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Twenty-five years after the historic Beijing women’s conference in China – a milestone in advancing equal rights – violence against women and girls is not only common, but widely accepted, a new UN report revealed on Wednesday [4 March 2020].

© UNICEF/Noorani | Married at 14 years old, the adolescent’s husband abandoned her when she became pregnant.

While there have been remarkable gains for girls in education, little headway has been made to help shape a more equal, less violent environment for them, warned the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), together with UN Women and the non-governmental organization Plan International in their report, A New Era for Girls: Taking stock on 25 years of progress.

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04/03/2020

Sexist Economies Where World’s 22 Richest Men Have More Wealth than All the Women in Africa

Human Wrongs Watch

By Anna Tonelli*

NEW YORK, Mar 3 2020 (IPS)* – This International Women’s Day, 25 years after we first heard it declared that “women’s rights are human rights” at the historic Beijing 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, we need to take the space and time to reflect on just how far we’ve come – and just how much more work there is to do.

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