Statement: This is the time to ramp up, not decrease funding for women and girls
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Statement by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
The ravages of COVID-19 on the lives and livelihoods of women and girls are being seen in every country, from higher job losses, shrinking work hours and greater care burdens, to increased levels of all forms of violence against women, with the development gains of decades reversed in multiple areas. This regression is an urgent driver to further ramp up investment in gender equality and women’s empowerment, an area where both global and national efforts remain chronically underfunded, despite its importance for the 2030 Agenda.
Six ways tech can help end gender-based violence
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COVID-19 and related containment measures have triggered a
shadow pandemic of Gender-Based Violence (GBV). This
global scourge threatens the safety and well-being of millions of girls and women. Domestic violence reports have increased three-fold in many countries, and since most domestic violence goes unreported, the scope of the problem is likely to be much
greater. This violence may be physical, sexual, verbal, psychological or economic – happening in homes, on the streets, and increasingly
Tech as a weapon or force for good?
While digital technology can bring huge advantages, there is no doubt it can also facilitate violence. Women and girls are more likely to be targets of online violence, such as physical threats, sexual harassment, bullying, stalking,
Leave no one behind: How to include Crisis-Affected Populations in the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence
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From March 29-31 women’s rights activists, political decision makers as well as representatives from civil society, international organisations, and the private sector will virtually gather in Mexico for the first of two conferences of the “Generation Equality Forum”. The Forum is a global campaign led by UN Women to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, at which governments from around the world agreed on a comprehensive plan to achieve global gender equality, better known as the Beijing Platform for Action. The Beijing Platform is recognised as the most progressive international agreement on gender equality. The goal of the Generation Equality Forum is to reinvigorate the progress to achieve gender equality for all women around the world.
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Humanitarian crises monitoring: Coronavirus in developing countries: Secondary impacts
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Developing countries face disastrous healthcare setbacks, hunger and huge international debt as covid-19’s ‘final wave’
The International Development Committee (IDC) today warns that a legacy of humanitarian and development reversals and crises could be more catastrophic than the direct impacts of covid-19 in developing countries. The IDC’s latest report comes as the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs is set to appear before IDC members for the first time.
The IDC’s inquiry found that routine healthcare in some countries is grinding to a halt; vulnerable economies risked failure under rising levels of national debt; people across the Global South were more in fear of threats of job losses and starvation than the pandemic; and the virus, and its counter-measures, were increasing levels of gender-based violence, child marriages and other challeng