LONDON – Attacks on human rights and gender equality in the last 12 months They have reduced protection and increased threats against women and girls around the world, said a statement by the humanitarian organization Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday 8, International Women’s Day.
The events of 2021 and the first months of 2022 “have conspired to crush the rights and dignity of millions of women and girls” and “the world’s crises do not affect the entire population equally, much less in a fair way,” said Agnès Callamard, secretary general of the organization.
“The disproportionate impact on the rights of women and girls is well documented and yet neglected if not outright ignored. But the facts are clear,” Callamard added.
Among those facts he mentioned covid-19, the enormous setback for women’s rights in Afghanistan, the widespread sexual violence that characterizes the conflict in Ethiopia and the attacks on access to abortion in the United States.
Also Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, signed by 46 countries in the European region and ratified by 34, in which it is law.
“Each and every one of these facts is in itself a serious erosion of rights, but taken as a whole? We must stand up and look this global assault on the dignity of women and girls in the face,” said Callamard.
“The crises in the world do not affect the entire population equally, much less in a fair way. The disproportionate impact on the rights of women and girls is well documented, yet neglected if not outright ignored. But the facts are clear”: Agnès Callamard.
AI stressed that this March 8, International Women’s Day “comes while the armed conflict in Europe – unleashed by the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces – throws the world into a new crisis.”
“The images of women giving birth refugees from the bombingsfleeing from bombs with children in their arms, from bereaved mothers, from boys and girls who have just been orphaned, they emphasize what the conflict and the humanitarian crisis represent for women and children”, stated the text.
Women and girls caught up in the conflict in Ukraine “are now added to the millions who suffer the inexorable human cost of armed conflict from Syria to Yemen, through Afghanistan and far beyond,” the statement added.
According to AI, with the increasing militarization of daily life, while weapons proliferate, violence intensifies and public resources are redirected to support military spending, all of which take a “high and unsustainable” toll on daily life. of women and girls.
Even before the armed conflicts intensified, the pandemic increased gender-based violence in the familyjob insecurity for women worsened, access to sexual and reproductive health services eroded, and the presence of girls in schools was reduced in many places.
“Those who were already the most marginalized have suffered the worst consequences,” sums up AI’s statement, and so first of all, “decisions by governments and authorities that have worsened the situation for women and girls” in many parts of the world must be reversed.
Amid the setbacks, on the positive side according to AI, the efforts of women human rights defenders have borne fruit, for example with “key victories for abortion rights in Colombia, Mexico and San Marino”.
Slovenian women’s rights activists succeeded in getting the rape law reformed to bring it in line with international standards following similar positive changes in Denmark, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Iceland and Sweden, while reforms are underway in the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.
Women human rights defenders and activists are also at the forefront of the resistance and the protests in favor of human rights in other countries, such as Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Russia, the United States and Afghanistan.
“In many cases, they do so even in the face of death threats against them. and their families or threats of imprisonment and bodily harm. They deserve global support,” AI’s statement concluded.
https://ipsnoticias.net/2022/03/amnesty-denunciation-attacks-on-rights-and-dignity-of-women/
LONDON – Attacks on human rights and gender equality in the last 12 months They have reduced protection and increased threats against women and girls around the world, said a statement by the humanitarian organization Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday 8, International Women’s Day.
The events of 2021 and the first months of 2022 “have conspired to crush the rights and dignity of millions of women and girls” and “the world’s crises do not affect the entire population equally, much less in a fair way,” said Agnès Callamard, secretary general of the organization.
“The disproportionate impact on the rights of women and girls is well documented and yet neglected if not outright ignored. But the facts are clear,” Callamard added.
Among those facts he mentioned covid-19, the enormous setback for women’s rights in Afghanistan, the widespread sexual violence that characterizes the conflict in Ethiopia and the attacks on access to abortion in the United States.
Also Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, signed by 46 countries in the European region and ratified by 34, in which it is law.
“Each and every one of these facts is in itself a serious erosion of rights, but taken as a whole? We must stand up and look this global assault on the dignity of women and girls in the face,” said Callamard.
“The crises in the world do not affect the entire population equally, much less in a fair way. The disproportionate impact on the rights of women and girls is well documented, yet neglected if not outright ignored. But the facts are clear”: Agnès Callamard.
AI stressed that this March 8, International Women’s Day “comes while the armed conflict in Europe – unleashed by the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces – throws the world into a new crisis.”
“The images of women giving birth refugees from the bombingsfleeing from bombs with children in their arms, from bereaved mothers, from boys and girls who have just been orphaned, they emphasize what the conflict and the humanitarian crisis represent for women and children”, stated the text.
Women and girls caught up in the conflict in Ukraine “are now added to the millions who suffer the inexorable human cost of armed conflict from Syria to Yemen, through Afghanistan and far beyond,” the statement added.
According to AI, with the increasing militarization of daily life, while weapons proliferate, violence intensifies and public resources are redirected to support military spending, all of which take a “high and unsustainable” toll on daily life. of women and girls.
Even before the armed conflicts intensified, the pandemic increased gender-based violence in the familyjob insecurity for women worsened, access to sexual and reproductive health services eroded, and the presence of girls in schools was reduced in many places.
“Those who were already the most marginalized have suffered the worst consequences,” sums up AI’s statement, and so first of all, “decisions by governments and authorities that have worsened the situation for women and girls” in many parts of the world must be reversed.
Amid the setbacks, on the positive side according to AI, the efforts of women human rights defenders have borne fruit, for example with “key victories for abortion rights in Colombia, Mexico and San Marino”.
Slovenian women’s rights activists succeeded in getting the rape law reformed to bring it in line with international standards following similar positive changes in Denmark, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Iceland and Sweden, while reforms are underway in the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.
Women human rights defenders and activists are also at the forefront of the resistance and the protests in favor of human rights in other countries, such as Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Russia, the United States and Afghanistan.
“In many cases, they do so even in the face of death threats against them. and their families or threats of imprisonment and bodily harm. They deserve global support,” AI’s statement concluded.
https://ipsnoticias.net/2022/03/amnesty-denunciation-attacks-on-rights-and-dignity-of-women/
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