Girls’s Rights Below Assault And “We Should Struggle Again”, Says UN Chief

Washington:

Girls’s rights are beneath assault and “we should struggle again,” United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres mentioned on Friday, warning that the world can not stand by as progress is reversed.

At a United Nations occasion on the eve of Worldwide Girls’s Day on Saturday, Guterres mentioned centuries of discrimination in opposition to girls had been being exacerbated by new threats.

“Digital instruments, whereas brimming with promise, are additionally typically silencing girls’s voices, amplifying bias, and fuelling harassment,” he mentioned on Friday. “Girls’s our bodies have turn out to be political battlegrounds.”

“And on-line violence is escalating into real-life violence. As an alternative of mainstreaming equal rights, we’re witnessing the mainstreaming of chauvinism and misogyny,” Guterres mentioned.

He urged the world to struggle again, stressing that gender equality was not nearly equity.

“It’s about energy – who will get a seat on the desk, and who’s locked out,” Guterres mentioned. “It’s about dismantling programs that permit inequalities to fester. And it’s about guaranteeing a greater world for all.”

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