Just a few months ago, a womens business centre supporting female traders, was bustling with people. Today, its silent. plans to distribute tablets to conduct online teaching.
Women and Gender Equality
Around the world, patriarchal systems of power have long reinforced norms and ideas that drive gender inequality and its devastating manifestations, including gender-based violence. These issues impact millions of women and girls every year; in fact, one third of women globally have experienced intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence or both. Amid these challenges, and Palestines Ministry of Health launched a new programme to educate midwives, obstetricians, doctors, and others on how to care for patients who have experienced sexual violence.
Malika Machalikashvilis farm in Georgia was once pretty traditional Today she sells her produce using a smartphone. For the last three years, Malika has been attending trainings, which teach smallholder farmers about better agricultural practices. These platforms have also proved very useful for teaching rural men and women about gender equality, gender-based violence and womens economic empowerment. These trainings help smallholder women farmers feel empowered to stand up for their rights, grow their businesses and implement successful economic initiatives.
s online courses in least developed countries (LDCs) benefit from trade.
The IAEA its new professional development programme to boost womens careers in the nuclear field: the
As the world steps forward to curb climate change and nature loss, finding solutions that work is vital. Our collective destination will not be reached without womens equal participation and leadership. is thwarting stereotypes, expanding opportunities, and implementing solutions. In from , you can read about , a community ranger working to and help stamp out crime in Indonesia; , who joined previously male-dominated professions becoming a ranger to protect black-necked cranes in China; , who is working to redefine how medicinal herbs are cultivated and preserved in Viet Nam; and , who is weaving a better future in India.
International Womens Day recognizes the critical contributions of women human rights defenders and feminist movements, who use the transformative power of digital technology to connect, mobilize, and drive social change, while fighting against the persistent pushback of womens rights. The digital world offers immense opportunities, but it isnt immune to the persistent backlash against womens rights and gender equality including gender-based violence and digital exclusion. International Womens Day reminds us of the patriarchal power dynamics, old and new, that hold our world back from fulfilling the rights of all women and girls, UN Volker T羹rk, "The digital space has yet to undergo a much-needed feminist revolution and it must."
Today women make up under a third of the workforce in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM). When women are under-represented in developing new technologies, discrimination may be baked in from the start. This International Womens Day (8 March) with the theme , recognizes the women and girls championing transformative technologies and digital education. The observance explores the impact of the digital gender gap on widening inequalities and the importance of protecting womens rights in digital spaces. .
Emerging technologies and digital access can greatly improve the well-being, education, health, and livelihoods of women and girls. However, a significant digital gender gap remains, limiting the equitable benefits of digital transformation. The an intergovernmental body dedicated to gender equality and womens empowerment will address this problem in its (6-17 March). The group will revisit the gendered impacts of innovation and identify recommendations for a more inclusive and equitable digital evolution.
is one of the lucky ones. She managed to escape from Afghanistan in August 2021, just as the Taliban overran the countrys capital. Today, while the 20-year-old engineering student pursues a degree in the US, her former classmates back home have been banned from the classroom.
In support of this weeks conference in Geneva and its call for learning support in emergencies, Somaya has been speaking to UN Newss Daniel Johnson.
Photo: 穢 Courtesy of Somaya Faruqi
Some 4.2 million girls are at risk of the harmful practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) during 2023 alone. Partnerships with men and boys can make the largest global impact in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals target of eliminating FGM by 2030. Be part of the of this years International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (6 February) and share with the world: #MenEndFGM!
A group of worried women gathered at a community centre on the outskirts of Afghanistans capital, Kabul. Many have recently completed a livelihoods training project run by local NGO in partnership with the . But the future of the project and the women hangs in the balance. Recent decrees issued by Afghanistans authorities have barred female employees with non-governmental organisations from going to work. If the decree is not amended, projects such as this one, which involves female NGO staff training other women, will be unable to continue.
In 2022, amidst conflict, crisis, and a growing global pushback on gender equality, pushed forward. Looking ahead to 2023, the UN agency is calling on everyone around the world to work together to ensure that womens rights are upheld, their leadership is guaranteed, their needs are met in times of crisis, and their lives are always free of violence.
Emel Mathlouthi was named the voice of the Tunisian revolution, after a video of her performing a version of the song My Word is Free, during a Tunisian street protest, went viral online during the Arab Spring.
Her music was banned by the regime, and she became known as the "voice of the Tunisian revolution." Three years later, she was invited to perform the song at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.
Over the years, Emels musical journey has led her to incorporate electronica and digital glitches, but it was clear from talking to her, that she hasnt lost her revolutionary spirit.
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Ranu was married at 14 and lost her first child in pregnancy at 16. To combat gender inequality and advocate for girls in her village, Ranu joined a -supported group of activists in Bangladesh.