End Violence against Women - UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Top stories | Interactive | Video | News | Social media | Facts and figures #HearMeToo: A message from UN Women’s Executive Director On this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November), we honour and amplify the voices of survivors and grassroots activists. Under the UN theme, “Orange the World: #HearMeToo,” UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka issues a call to listen to and believe survivors, to end the culture of silencing and to put survivors at the centre of our responses. Read the full message► Emmanuella was seven years old when she was raped. Building on the momentum of global movements and grassroots campaigns such as ‘#MeToo’, “#TimesUp”, “#BalanceTonPorc” “#NiUnaMenos”, #MetooIndia and “HollaBack!” #HearMeToo brings to the forefront the voices of women and girls who have survived violence, who are defending women’s rights every day, who are taking action—many of them very far away from the limelight or media headlines. News
Face the facts: Gender Equality Back to main Face the Facts page Download in Word In recent decades, women in Australia have made significant strides towards achieving equality with men. In 1984, the Sex Discrimination Act came into force, making it against the law discrimination to discriminate against someone on the basis of gender, sexuality, marital status, family responsibilities or because they are pregnant. The Act, which gives effect to Australia’s international human rights obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, has played an important role in changing community attitudes and helping advance gender equality in this country. Despite this progress, women and girls continue to experience inequality and discrimination in many important parts of their lives, which can limit the choices and opportunities available to them. About gender equality in Australia Barriers to gender equality Positive developments Did you know? Our role Find out more
7 Things To Know If You Think Women Are Equal To Men Goal 5: Gender Equality <a id="mobile-version-link" class="mobile-version-link" href=" the mobile version of globalgoals.org</a> Targets Gender equality Equal access for all genders to rights, resources, opportunities and protections Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.[1] Gender equality is the goal, while gender neutrality and gender equity are practices and ways of thinking that help in achieving the goal. UNICEF says gender equality "means that women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections. On a global scale, achieving gender equality also requires eliminating harmful practices against women and girls, including sex trafficking, femicide, wartime sexual violence, gender wage gap,[3] and other oppression tactics. History Shakers Life of the Diligent Shaker, Shaker Historical Society Post-war era United Nations 4.
Hillary Clinton's 'glass ceiling' moment Hillary Clinton’s “glass ceiling” speech, the most memorable moment of oratory in her political career, once decisively marked the end of her presidential hopes; now, her supporters see it as an inspiring prelude. Eight years to the day after she declared that, thanks to the number of Democrats who voted for her, the highest, hardest glass ceiling of sexism had "about 18 million cracks in it," Clinton is set to make history as the first woman to become her a major party nominee. Story Continued Below She will finally claim victory Tuesday night in her protracted and unexpectedly bitter fight against Bernie Sanders. And aides say she is likely to reference her own parting comments in the 2008 race, etched in pain but delivered with hope — aimed at restoring the party unity she now needs from the defiant Vermont Senator. “Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been," she said. Again, the moment resonates today.
Goal 5: Gender equality Ending all forms of discrimination against women and girls is not only a basic human right, but it also crucial to accelerating sustainable development. It has been proven time and again, that empowering women and girls has a multiplier effect, and helps drive up economic growth and development across the board. Since 2000, UNDP, together with our UN partners and the rest of the global community, has made gender equality central to our work. The SDGs aim to build on these achievements to ensure that there is an end to discrimination against women and girls everywhere. Affording women equal rights to economic resources such as land and property are vital targets to realizing this goal.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Text in PDF format Introduction On 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It entered into force as an international treaty on 3 September 1981 after the twentieth country had ratified it. By the tenth anniversary of the Convention in 1989, almost one hundred nations have agreed to be bound by its provisions. The Convention was the culmination of more than thirty years of work by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, a body established in 1946 to monitor the situation of women and to promote women's rights. Among the international human rights treaties, the Convention takes an important place in bringing the female half of humanity into the focus of human rights concerns. The agenda for equality is specified in fourteen subsequent articles. The legal status of women receives the broadest attention. The full text of the Convention is set out herein: Article I Article 2
Suffragettes The Suffragettes wanted the right for women to vote. The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded theNational Union of Women’s Suffrage. “Suffrage” means the right to vote and that is what women wanted – hence its inclusion in Fawcett’s title. Millicent Fawcett believed in peaceful protest. She felt that any violence or trouble would persuade men that women could not be trusted to have the right to vote. Her game plan was patience and logical arguments. However, Fawcett’s progress was very slow. In fact, the Suffragettes started off relatively peacefully. Both women refused to pay a fine preferring to go to prison to highlight the injustice of the system as it was then. The Suffragettes refused to bow to violence. Suffragettes were quite happy to go to prison. The government of Asquith responded with the Cat and Mouse Act. As a result, the Suffragettes became more extreme.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it. In general terms, it manifests itself in physical, sexual and psychological forms, encompassing: intimate partner violence (battering, psychological abuse, marital rape, femicide); sexual violence and harassment (rape, forced sexual acts, unwanted sexual advances, child sexual abuse, forced marriage, street harassment, stalking, cyber- harassment); human trafficking (slavery, sexual exploitation); female genital mutilation; and child marriage. The adverse psychological, sexual and reproductive health consequences of VAWG affect women at all stages of their life. Violence against women continues to be an obstacle to achieving equality, development, peace as well as to the fulfillment of women and girls’ human rights.
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Emma Watson debuts inspirational short film Hurdles about equality for women Emma Watson has worked tirelessly in her role as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, despite what some tabloids might say, and this weekend posted a “small film” she narrated and helped make about the hurdles women have overcome and still have yet to leap. Okay, it’s not exactly high art, but it’s a useful little video nonetheless, set to Sia’s anthemic ‘Chandelier’ and illustrating the challenges using footage from the women’s Olympics hurdles final at the 1964 Tokyo games. It shows the milestones passed (1963 - America passes the first Equal Pay Act, 97 countries now have more women than men at university) and the problems still persisting in the world (15 million child brides every year, 62 million girls are still out of school, 1 in 3 women still experience violence). “There are many huge and high hurdles left to jump,” Watson narrates. “The race is still on.