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News in Brief 5 November 2020

5 November 2020
News in Brief
  • 1 in 3 students being bullied at school: UNESCO
  • UN aid coordinator slams school attacks in Cameroon
  • Experts call for immediate release of Saudi women's rights defender on hunger strike
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Participants from civil society groups rally on the sidelines of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in September 1995.
UN Photo/Milton Grant

COVID-19 underscores need to deliver on promise of landmark women’s rights conference

1 October 2020
Women

Unless countries act now, the COVID-19 pandemic could erase recent “fragile progress” towards gender equality, the UN Secretary-General warned on Thursday, urging governments to put women at the centre of recovery and response. 

Women in a self-help group meeting in Bhatajhari Village, India.
© UNICEF/Ashima Narain

International Women’s Day: Gender equality benefits everyone

7 March 2020
Women

The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world”, the chief of UN Women said in her message for International Women’s Day (IWD) at UN Headquarters on Friday, being celebrated in New York, ahead of the official day.

Women in Bangladesh stand up for gender equality.
© UNICEF/Jannatul Mawa

International Women's Day: progress on gender equality remains slow

5 March 2020
Women

Women's Rights in Review, 25 years after Beijing takes stock of how the landmark gender equality plan, the Beijing Platform for Action, is being implemented and calls for greater parity and justice.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachele addresses the High-level segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
UN Photo/Antoine Tardy

UN human rights chief warns of women’s rights complacency

25 February 2020
Women

Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has warned against complacency on women’s rights at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration, a landmark agenda for the empowerment of women.