Women’s rights are being abused, threatened, and violated around the world. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - Global progress on women’s rights is “vanishing before our eyes,” UN boss Antonio Guterres warned Monday, saying the increasingly distant goal of gender equality will take another three centuries to achieve.
“Women’s rights are being abused, threatened, and violated around the world,” he added, as he ticked off a litany of crises: maternal mortality, girls ousted from school, caregivers denied work and“Progress won over decades is vanishing before our eyes,” Guterres said. He did not name other specific countries, but Guterres stressed that “in many places, women’s sexual and reproductive rights are being rolled back in some countries, girls going to school risk kidnapping and assault.”
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