Gender equality and women’s rights | OHCHR
Dec 20, 2024 · Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Gender-based discrimination is prohibited under almost every human rights treaty. Despite much progress made in securing women’s rights globally, millions of women and girls continue to experience discrimination and violence, being denied of their equality ...
OHCHR and women’s human rights and gender equality
About gender equality and the human rights of women and LGBTI persons. Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and United Nations values. Equality and non-discrimination are fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter, adopted by world leaders in 1945.
Global Gender Gap Report 2024 | World Economic Forum
Jun 11, 2024 · The Global Gender Gap Index 2024 benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time …
15 strategies helping to close the gender gap around the world
Mar 3, 2022 · Gender equality has suffered since the pandemic began. It will now take an estimated 135.6 years to close the worldwide gender gap between men and women. However, progress is being made in areas including science and politics. Improving paternity policies and representation of women will help.
7 surprising and outrageous stats about gender inequality
Mar 8, 2019 · At the current rate of progress, it will take another 108 years to reach gender parity, according to the World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Gender Gap report. Across the 106 countries covered since the first edition of the report, the biggest gaps to close are in the economic and political empowerment dimensions, which will take 202 ...
Gender Gap: This is the state of work for women in 2024
Jun 27, 2024 · While the speed of progress is “deeply insufficient to achieve gender equality by 2030”, it is achievable, the report says, if government and business “shift both resources and mindsets towards a new paradigm of economic thinking, where gender parity is embraced as a condition for equitable and sustainable growth”.
Global Gender Gap Report 2023 - The World Economic Forum
Jun 20, 2023 · The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps …
Gender parity is a human right | OHCHR - UN Human Rights Office
Oct 25, 2024 · Gender parity is a human right. The right of women, in all their diversity, to have an equal say in all decisions that shape their societies, economies, and futures, is non-negotiable. And gender parity is transformative. It brings to bear the …
What does gender equality really mean? | World Economic Forum
Jan 22, 2015 · As global leaders look back on the goals we set in the year 2000 and begin to shape new objectives for the future, I hope we take time to dig deeper into the issue of gender equality. The current proposal from the United Nation’s Open Working Group is to move from promoting gender equality and empowering women into achieving gender equality ...
Human rights economy, key to advancing women’s equality
Jul 19, 2024 · If economic systems are to work for gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, Al-Nashif said, it is imperative to implement human rights economies in and across countries. “Through the Human Rights Economy concept, we can perform the reset so urgently needed.