Women’s rights are being “abused, threatened and violated” around the world and gender equality won’t be achieved for 300 years on the current track, the United Nations secretary-general warned Monday.
Antonio Guterres told the opening session of the Commission on the Status of Women – the U.N.’s premiere global body fighting for gender equality – that progress won over decades is vanishing because “the patriarchy is fighting back.”
The U.N. chief pointed to Afghanistan where “women and girls have been erased from public life,” and said that in many countries women’s sexual and reproductive rights are being rolled back.
UN secretary-general says women’s right are under threat
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