Gender Equality

• [New] The Yemen crisis is leaving women and girls with more responsibilities, fewer economic opportunities, and greater risk of gender-based violence, early marriage, and exploitation.
• [New] G7 Members will promote deepened studies and more cross-cutting analyses on trade policy and gender equality by international organisations, such as SheTrades Outlook.
• [New] Compounding historical obstacles facing women in tech are new challenges brought by the global Covid-19 pandemic that risk eliminating decades worth of progress in the gender equality movement.
• [New] Girls in Tech, a global non-profit working to erase the gender gap in tech, has called on organisations to commit to gender parity in their boardrooms by 2025.
• Gender equality and women's full and equal participation in all areas of life, especially decision-making, are integral to the Decade of Action and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
• In the last two decades there have been renewed efforts to promote gender equality in political participation in the hope that more women in parliament would put women's needs and issues on the political agenda and drive policy interventions that promote gender equality.
• Although Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it ranks 44 out of 153 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index, with equality lacking in areas like political empowerment, health and economic participation and opportunity.
• Horizon Europe will help develop innovations, policies and institutions to support democratic processes and enhance trust in democratic institutions, through improved transparency, accountability, rule of law and equality, including gender equality.
• As the world enters the last decade to prevent irreversible damage from climate change, women are said to be challenging gender norms to secure the future of ecosystems � � � sometimes, at great personal risk.
• Through peer-to-peer engagement, HDP seeks to expand opportunities for women and men to advance gender equality in legislatures globally.
• For the future, a bigger effort to promote sustainable development also in rural areas is required, with the wish that China will fulfil gender equality and the other goals before 2030.
• The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has further reduced access to justice and essential services, creating additional obstacles for ending all forms of gender-based violence against women and girls by 2030, as required by the Sustainable Development Goal 5.2.
• McKinsey reports that should India adopt thorough measures to drastically improve the security and mobility of women to achieve gender parity, its GDP could grow by US$ 700 billion by 2025.
• Gender responsive interventions needed during pandemic Governments faced with a second wave of Covid-19 must plan gender responsive interventions, such as ensuring women and children at risk of violence in their homes are adequately protected.
• UNICEF will prioritize protection against sexual exploitation and abuse and gender-based violence, and the provision of age -, gender - and disability-appropriate services.
• Capital markets will be shaped profoundly by global sustainability challenges, particularly climate change, environmental pollution, natural resource constraints, demographic and human capital issues such as diversity, inclusion and gender equality.
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is worsening entrenched gender inequalities and discrimination faced by refugee women and girls, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warns today.
• The more than 1.5 million female Syrian refugees in Lebanon face systematic gender inequalities, leading to an increased risk of gender violence and poor access to resources, services and legal freedoms when compared with their male counterparts.
• Women's rights organisations have sent a clear message: Myanmar's coup represents a backward step for women and threatens to undo gains made on gender equality and women's rights.
• Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women - East Africa announces new research to advance gender equality in the world of work.
• The United States will demand accountability for the rampant sexual exploitation and abuse that has been perpetrated during the COVID-19 pandemic and insist on women's full and effective participation in public decision-making.
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Last updated: 11 April 2021