UNESCO and Guerlain have launched a state-of-the-art female beekeeping entrepreneurship programme, Women for Bees, with activist Angelina Jolie, helping promote its twin objectives of womens empowerment and biodiversity conservation.
Women and Gender Equality
Every day, through our actions, and in the way we lead, talk, question and act, we challenge norms, transform habits, change laws, take action and inspire others to create a world without gender-based discrimination. We are Generation Equality rising. In the throes of a global pandemic, how we act now matters more than ever. This and as world leaders and activists prepare for the 2021 , a global gathering to invest and innovate for gender equality, we are mobilizing to bring change. Join us.
Throughout history and around the world, women have always displayed exemplary leadership. Yet on this day, despite womens increased engagement in public decision-making roles, equality is far off.
Women in Wakhan National Park supporting reforestation efforts. The forests close to the villages will decrease pressure on grazing areas in wildlife habitats. Globally, women are stepping to the fore against wildlife crime and corruption. Through positions they occupy in all walks of life as influencers in their communities, frontline defenders and wildlife managers, government decision-makers, legislators, scientists, and business leaders - women are working to protect wildlife for the benefit of ecosystems, economies and people.
Sometimes, that support comes from changing people's minds. Flavia Buitr籀n belongs to an organization of Quechua women in Peru that raises awareness of indigenous women's issues. The pandemic has laid bare many painful truths, not least how tough and isolating the road is when we go through difficult times alone. Weve seen how working in solidarity is the way to reach where we are heading faster. This International Womens Day, on 8 March, we celebrate the women supporting other women, even when their own burdens are great and growing. When women uplift other women, we all rise.
Measured purely by numbers and ratios, the picture of womens and girls leadership globally is grim indeed. At the same time, women are not waiting for the doors to open. This exhibit features 13 extraordinary women leaders fighting for gender equality, whose words and stories inspired others to join Generation Equality. It presents women leading by example to change the places of power, end violence, stop climate change, and open opportunities for all women and girls. The exhibit is organized by UN Women in connection with International Womens Day, 8 March.
and partner have launched the Women in Maritime Survey to examine the distribution of women working in the maritime sector, from support roles to executive level positions.
Women of the world want and deserve an equal future free from stigma, stereotypes and violence; a future thats sustainable, peaceful, with equal rights and opportunities for all. advocates to include women at every table where decisions are being made. This year, the theme for International Womens Day (8 March), celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the gaps that remain.
Women stand at the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, as health care workers, caregivers, innovators, community organizers and as some of the most exemplary and effective . The crisis has highlighted both the centrality of their contributions and the disproportionate burdens that women carry. In this years International Womens Day, we recognize and celebrate the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sa繳de das Manas (Sisters Health) project, a partnership, aims is to strengthen the quality of reproductive health care in Brazil. The local health system provides services in COVID-19 times by setting up telemedicine offices at seven health-care clinics (called basic health units in Brazil). The clinics will provide online consultations with specialists in gynaecology and obstetrics. Before the telemedicine offices open, patients who require a more specialized consultation travel more than 100 kilometres away, mostly by boat.
and the L'Or矇al Foundation honoured in the fields of astrophysics, mathematics, chemistry and informatics as part of the 23rd International Prize for Women in Science. , shows that although the number of women in scientific research has risen to one in three, women remain a minority. Every year women write as many scientific articles as men, but their chances of appearing in prestigious journals are lower, as are their seats on national science academies around the world.
Despite a shortage of skills in technological fields that are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, women still only account for 28% of engineering graduates and 40% of graduates in computer science and informatics, according to the forthcoming UNESCO Science Report whose chapter on gender in
Reformed cutters protect the next generation from female genital mutilation in Kenya
How to support survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in fragile and conflict-affected regions where health facilities are scarce and often out of capacity? In this video, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr.