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COVID-19 Gender Update
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On the 25th anniversary of landmark Beijing Declaration on women’s rights, UN Women calls for accelerating its unfinished business
Photo: UN Photo/Milton Grant
 
Today marks 25 years since the opening of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where 189 UN Member States adopted the most progressive blueprint for the advancement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka reflects on where we stand after a quarter of a century and calls for urgent action on the promises the world made to women and girls in 1995.
 

Generations of progress for women and girls could be lost to COVID pandemic, UN chief warns


Highlighting the disproportionate and devastating socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls globally, the UN chief António Guterres called this week for a major push to prevent “years, even generations” worth of progress on women’s empowerment, from being lost to the pandemic. Read more »
Read the Secretary-General's remarks.

COVID-19 will widen poverty gap between women and men, new UN Women and UNDP data shows


Projections in a new report, From insights to action: Gender equality in the wake of COVID-19, show that while the pandemic will impact global poverty generally, women will be disproportionately affected, especially women of reproductive age, pushing 47 million more women and girls below the poverty line, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty.
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IN THE NEWS HEADLINES:

FROM THE FRONT LINE
Young women and men step up to rebuild Beirut after the blasts

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ISSUE SPOTLIGHT
UNPAID CARE WORK In Thailand, #HeforSheAtHome rallies men and boys to cook, clean and care for equality
WOMEN'S HEALTH COVID-19 quarantine poses added challenges for women with cancer in Gaza
REFUGEE WOMEN From where I stand: "Organizations share the voices of women […] but we want to put our voices into action"
SUPPORTING SURVIVORS In the words of Zibija Sarenkapic: “To quickly respond to the needs of women survivors of violence, we decided to digitize our services.”

EXPERT'S TAKE

Four lessons from COVID-19 that should shape policy decisions everywhere


All crises have gendered impacts – simply put, they affect women and men, girls and boys in different ways. COVID-19 is no different. Six months into the pandemic, what have we learned? What do policymakers and activists need to do to ensure that decades of progress on gender equality is not rolled back and efforts to ‘build back better’ benefit women and girls? Read more »

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