International Desk: Progress toward gender equality is \u201cvanishing before our eyes,\u201d United Nations Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres told the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the key UN women\u2019s rights group ahead of International Women\u2019s Day on March 8, Guterres said gender equality is \u201c300 years away\u201d according to the latest estimates from UN Women, the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.<\/p>\n
Guterres cited high rates of maternal mortality, girls being forced into early marriage, and girls being kidnapped and assaulted for attending school as evidence that hope of achieving gender equality \u201cis growing more distant.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his speech, Guterres did not mention Iran, which was expelled from the 45-member commission in December over protests following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country\u2019s so-called \u201cmorality police.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWomen\u2019s rights are being abused, threatened, and violated around the world,\u201d Guterres said, naming a few countries in particular, including Afghanistan, where he said \u201cwomen and girls have been erased from public life.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, young Afghan women gathered outside Kabul University to protest the ruling Taliban\u2019s ban on female education, a restriction which a new UN report says may amount to \u201ca crime against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday also noted the rise in forced and child marriages, the ban excluding women from other public spaces like parks and gyms, and other restrictions limiting women\u2019s ability to work and travel independently in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk: Progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres told the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday. Speaking to the key UN women’s rights group ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Guterres said gender equality is “300 years away” according to the latest estimates from UN Women, the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Guterres cited high rates of maternal mortality, girls being forced into early marriage, and girls being kidnapped and assaulted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30567,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30564\/revisions\/30567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}