action, said the UN SG Antonio Guterres.
On the International Women’s Day, March 8,
the United Nations’s Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the International Women’s
Day is a call to action. On such an occasion the world celebrates the
achievements of women and girls across all walks of life, in all corners of the
world but also recognizes the enormous obstacles they face: structural
injustices, marginalization, and violence, to cascading crises that affect them
first and worst, to the denial of their personal autonomy and rights over their
bodies and lives, gender-based discrimination to name but few.
International Women’s Day is a call to
action. Action to stand with women who are demanding their fundamental rights
at great personal cost. Action to strengthen protection against sexual
exploitation and abuse. And action to accelerate women’s full participation and
leadership, he said.
This year’s theme stresses the need for
technology and innovation to advance gender equality. Technology can expand
pathways to education and opportunities for women and girls. But it can also be
used to amplify abuse and hatred. ''Today, women make up under a third of the
workforce in science, technology, engineering, and maths'', Guterres mentionned
He added that when women are under-represented in
developing new technologies, discrimination may be baked in from the start. That
is why the world must close the digital divide and increase the representation of
women and girls in science and technology. Women’s exclusion from the digital
world has shaved an estimated $1 trillion from the GDP of low- and
middle-income countries in the last decade — a loss that could grow to $1.5
trillion by 2025 without action.
Currently, the United Nations SEcretary General is in Doha/Qatar for the fieth United Nations conference on last developed countries which began on March3 at Qatar national Convention Centre. To this conference 9000 persons were invited and 46 heard of states represented their countries .
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