Afghanistan's treatment of women as they are 'erased from public life' is one of several examples around the world that gender equality is far from becoming a reality, the UN chief warned.
Progress on women's rights around the world is "vanishing" according to the United Nations security-general.Issues around women's access to education and abortion, as well as gaps in science and technology, were highlighted.
"Gender equality is growing more distant. On the current track, UN Women puts it 300 years away," secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday in a General Assembly speech ahead of International Women's Day. Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General warned that gender equality is three centuries away."Women's rights are being abused, threatened, and violated around the world," he added, as he ticked off a litany of crises: maternal mortality, girls ousted from school, caregivers denied work and children forced into early marriage.He highlighted the particularly dire conditions in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, where "women and girls have been erased from public life.
Also left unmentioned was Iran, which was expelled late last year from the Commission on the Status of Women due to the country's repression of a female-led revolt since last September.
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