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Claire Sibthorpe Sunday 7 March, 2021 Africa | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Connected Women | East Asia and Pacific | English | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is important to reflect on the year that has passed and its impact on women. The theme of International Women’s Day this year is “Choose to Challenge” and a critical challenge is the digital gender gap. The year 2020 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action where world leaders adopted a clear blueprint...

3 Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, women in the Asia-Pacific region have shown decisive leadership in steering their countries and communities with effective responses to the pandemic, whether it is managing their businesses and households or standing at the frontlines as health-care workers. Yet, in the highest echelons of decision-making and the public sector, we see that many women's voices are still not being heard. Only a small percentage of political leaders in our region are women, far lower than the world's average. This is a detriment not only to women but to the region at...

“Why do we move one step forward and three steps back?” Nardos Bekele-Thomas, representing the United Nations, asked a meeting this week of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It was a question that resonated.   Extensive work has been and is being done by women’s movements, progressive governments and civil society to address women’s rights and gender equality, including gender-based violence. Yet the inequality, poverty, war and violence that increase vulnerability to gender-based violence grow like an unstoppable tsunami made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic.  Trying t...

International Women's Day, March 8, is celebrated in many countries around the world. The UN Charter was the first international document proclaiming equality between men and women as a fundamental human right. On March 8, 1975, during the International Women's Year, the UN celebrated its first official International Women's Day, which has acquired a new global dimension. Thereafter, the international women's movement was strengthened by the four UN World Conferences on Women, which gave great impetus to the coordination of efforts to achieve gender equality and the elimination of all forms o...

THE STANDARD By Jane Godia | March 8th 2021 at 14:42:51 GMT +0300 Jane Godia, Director, Africa, Women in News. Today is International Women’s Day - it’s a moment to think about how much better our news diet could be if inequities were eliminated In 1995, when the curtains fell in one of the largest meetings that have ever brought women together to discuss women in development, it was noted that women and media remain key to development. Twenty-six years later, the relevant “Article J” of the Beijing Platform for Action, remains unfulfilled. Its two strategic objectives with regard t...