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Artists shine light on gender equality at soirée in Pretoria By Valerie Boje Share Pretoria - There have been gains in achieving gender equality in recent years, but many challenges which remain have been aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The first part of the 2021 United Nations Gender Equality Forum, hosted virtually by Mexico, wrapped up at the end of March, with the second to be hosted by France at the end of June. These events are intended to accelerate action for the achievement of gender equality and the rights and dignity of women and girls. Mexico is significant as it was here...

We’re done talking: the blueprints launched today start work right now Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 [As delivered] Excellencies, distinguished guests, friends, Generation Equality fearless feminists of the world, do you want change? When do you want it? This Forum is deliberately breaking up the ‘old normal’. I want to start by thanking those of us who are joining us in this ‘new normal’. In this Forum, we were joined by at least 10,000 women who registered formally or who followed us on other channels, including YouTube. Women and girls of all ages, r...

VICTORIA MARUMO Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) hosted the March 2021 edition of the BSE Opening Bell Ceremony, under the theme, ‘Women in Leadership; Achieving an Equal Future in a Covid-19 World’.  This prestigious event this year focused on recognising the socio- economic, cultural and political attainments and contributions of women in the past and present as it coincided with the celebrations of the International Women’s Day – March 8. In attendance were Chancellor of the University of Botswana and former Governor of Bank of Botswana Linah Mohohlo, Botswana Stock Exchange CEO, Th...

Women’s rights advocates from Eastern Europe and the Caucuses urged to promote more women in politics Ahead of the sixty fifth session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65), civil society representatives called for promotion of women’s political participation and elimination of violence, discrimination and hate speech against women in politics. Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 On 11 March, over 60 women’s rights advocates from Central, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus came together to take stock of progress in women’s political participat...

English News and Press Release on World about Gender, Protection and Human Rights and Epidemic; published on 15 Mar 2021 by UN Women