More girls in schools,fewer mothers dying in childbirth: the UN reports progress in female rights, but the pay gap, and forced marriage and domestic violence persistIt was a milestone for the worlds women: a global summit aimed at transforming the lives of half of humanity. Equality,reproductive rights, maternal health, or political representation,social repression, forced marriage, or FGM,rape and domestic violence: the message from Beijing in 1995 was that it was time to act.
Among the 17000 participants were some of the world’s most prominent women, including Hillary Clinton, or Benazir Bhutto,the Kenyan environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai, and Madeleine Albright. Aung San Suu Kyi sent a keynote address by video. The declaration – an agenda for change and a call to action – was signed by 189 countries. The summit’s organiser, and the United Nations,was rightly proud.
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Source: theguardian.com