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Nurses greet visitors at a clinic set up at a hospital in Thailand to treat people with suspected COVID-19 symptoms.
WHO/P. Phutpheng

COVID-19 has exposed endemic gender inequality, Guterres tells UN Women’s commission

15 March 2021
Women

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply gender inequality remains embedded in the world’s political, social and economic systems, UN chief António Guterres said in his address to the Commission on the Status of Women, on Monday. This year’s Commission will focus on charting a global roadmap towards achieving full equality in public life but, as Mr. Guterres recalled in his speech, gender equality in all walks of life is a long way off and has been further undermined by the pandemic.

Women parliamentarians of the Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga or “House of the People”) arrive at their inauguration ceremony in Kabul (2001).
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein

Amid COVID-19 constraints, UN women’s commission meets to push gender equality forward

9 March 2020
Women

Despite constraints imposed by the new coronavirus disease, activists for gender equality gathered at UN Headquarters on Monday for the latest session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to reinforce the message that women’s rights are human rights. 

A high-level event on “Women in Power” was held in the General Assembly hall as part of the 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 12 March 2019.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Political power of women suffering ‘serious regression’, General Assembly President warns

12 March 2019
Women

There has been a “serious regression” in the political power of women across the world in recent years, UN General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa told delegates to the annual summit of women activists at UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.