UN Women leads a worldwide strategy to achieve the legal equality of women and girls by 2030. From the agency, they say they are in a career against time to repeal discriminatory laws
Discriminatory laws and the absence of legal protections affect more than 2.5 billion women and girls worldwide in various ways. Legal reform is essential to guarantee gender equality, and the world cannot afford to reverse in decades of advances in women’s rights.
In coincidence with the high -level political forum on the sustainable development of 2025, held on July 17, UN Women and Equality Now (Equality already), together with other international organizations linked to gender equity held a parallel encounter under the title “accelerate the legislative reform to fulfill Beijing’s promise, the SDGs and the agreement for the future.”
The objective of the meeting was to highlight success in the eradication of discrimination by approval of solid and inclusive legislation and recognizing the work that remains to be done in the fight against legal discrimination of women and girls.
“In these times of recoil in terms of gender equality, it is more urgent than ever that states and the international community protect and promote the right to equality for sex as a fundamental human right,” said Mona Sinha, executive director of Equality Now, an international organization promoting women’s rights.
For its part, Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, said she was proud to “lead a worldwide strategy to achieve the legal equality of women and girls by 2030 along with our partners … We are in a career against time to repeal discriminatory laws and replace them with protections based on dignity and equality.”
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The meeting coincided with the launch of a joint publication of Equality Now and Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR, in English), entitled “Selection of articles on nationality rights to guarantee gender equality.”
The publication is intended to be used by political leaders as a guide for the elaboration of inclusive policies that consecrate the protection of the rights of nationality of women, their children and their partners. This stood out as a persistent form of discrimination that restricts certain rights under its identity.
Catherine Harrington, GCENR campaign director, said the “absolute injustice” that men have the “inherent right” of transmitting nationality to their children or spouses, while women are not granted the same.
There are 24 countries in which women cannot legally transmit their citizenship to their childrenand at least 40 countries in which women cannot confer citizenship rights to a non -citizen spouse.
These restrictions prevent affected persons from exercising other fundamental rights, such as access to education, health care and even the right to enter the country in which they were born or consider their home.
The participation of women in public spaces, including politics, is also a measure of gender equality and a step towards sustainable development.
A UN Women’s report that was analyzed during the meeting, stressed that, although there had been an increase in the proportion of women in Parliament, since countries had taken measures to boost women’s participation in national and local legislatures, such as gender quotas, three out of four parliamentarians remained men.
It is necessary to create environments that are inclusive in gender and insurance to guarantee the participation of women. While the institutions that must represent the people are configured by laws that only benefit a few, there will be no place for equality.
“Democracy cannot be credible or effective if it does not reflect the diversity of people,” said Paddy Torsney, who exercises as a permanent observer of the Interparliamentary Union (UIP) before the United Nations.
You can read the full text in Inter Press Service
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