General Equality: a new campaign for the realization of women’s rights

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United Nations, May 7 (Canadian-Media/UN): To mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, considered the blueprint on women’s rights and empowerment, gender agency United Nations (UN) Women announced on Monday a new multigenerational campaign, titled “Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future”. ​

Women’s rights. Image credit: unsdn.org

In 2020, it will be 25 years since 189 Governments committed to taking bold actions in 12 critical areas of concern regarding gender equality: poverty, education and training, health, violence, armed conflict, economy, power and decision-making, institutional mechanisms, human rights, media, environment, and the girl child.
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“Today, the reality is that not a single country can claim to have achieved gender equality. Despite some progress, real change has been too slow for most women and girls in the world, and we see significant pushback in many places against their leadership and agency,” said UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

In 2020, the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (#Beijing25) will bring together generations of women’s rights activists to finally make gender equality a lived reality.

Stay tuned for our #GenerationEquality campaign! https://t.co/cbCgLMROpV

— UN Women (@UN_Women) May 6, 2019

The Generation Equality campaign will bring together several generations of women’s rights activists to galvanize attention and action on key issues including equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end to sexual harassment and all forms of violence against women and girls, health-care services that respond to their needs, and their equal participation in economic and political life and decision-making in all areas of life.