Part of Kathy Caprino’s “Building a World That Works for All”
Since 1987, 28 May celebrates the International Day of Action for Women’s Health and, while progress has been made since 1987, the fitness status of women around the world faces more demanding situations than ever before. women and women aged 15 to 49 who are married or in a union make their own decisions about sexual and reproductive fitness and rights when deciding on fitness care, birth control and their own sexual practices (i. e. , say no to sex).
To address women’s lack of rights to non-public reproductive autonomy and collective equality, the Equality Generation Forum convened through UN Women, a UN entity committed to women’s equality and empowerment, will launch a series of concrete, ambitious and transformative movements to make rapid and irreversible progress towards final equality. Co-organized through the governments of France and Mexico, the Forum began in Mexico City in late March and culminates in Paris from June 30 to July 2, 2021.
The Forum is supported by action coalitions that aim to achieve measurable replacement for women and women around the world over the next five years. In addition to the Coalition of Action for Corporal Autonomy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, other coalitions of action have been created. on five cross-cutting issues that are for gender equality:
To be more informed about the visions, objectives and plans of the Generation Equality Forum, I met this week with ‘Sa Regnér, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of Regulatory Support, Coordination of the United Nations System and Programme Outcomes at UN Women. Until 2018, Regnér served as Minister of Children, the Third Age and Gender Equality of Sweden. She has extensive experience in gender equality and women’s empowerment, having held leadership positions in government, non-governmental organizations and the United Nations.
This year’s International Day of Action for Women’s Health highlights the disproportionate effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s right to sexual and reproductive health.
Here’s what Regnér shares:
Kathy Caprino: How did the Covid-19 pandemic make achieving gender equality, physical autonomy and women’s fitness rights more urgent?
In April 2020, the UN Secretary-General’s leadership note on the effect of COVID-19 on women revealed that while men would have a higher mortality rate, women and women were affected by the economic and social benefits resulting from Covid. -19 pandemic. The impacts were felt mainly in the areas of violence against women and women, employment of women and women’s businesses, leadership and participation of women and women, gender-sensitive and data-driven national responses, and humanitarian and post-conflict situations.
The Covid-19 pandemic has put almost universal pressure on progress in gender equality since the adoption of the Beijing Agenda of Action and exacerbated inequalities in all facets of women’s, women’s and communities’ lives.
Physical fitness overloaded due to Covid-19 diverts resources from women’s needs, adding contraceptives and prenatal and postnatal fitness care. Eastern and southern Africa shows that the pandemic has had profound and varied effects on women and women in eastern and southern Africa, and is cutting global efforts to achieve the most of gender-like sustainable progression goals.
Here are several tactics in which the pandemic has had a negative effect on key advances in women’s health:
The UN Women Report From Ideas to Action: Gender Equality After COVID-19 highlighted the findings of UN Women’s Rapid Gender Assessment Surveys in 2020:
Without or limited to contraceptives, women have experienced an increasing number of unwanted pregnancies since the onset of the pandemic. By 2020, a UNFPA review predicted that significant levels of disruption related to employer closure for 6 months may leave 47 million women in a low-consumption situation. and middle-income countries that cannot use fashionable contraceptives, resulting in another 7 million unwanted pregnancies.
Caprino: What are some of the invisible consequences of violations of the reproductive rights of women and women that many of us are aware of?
Preserve: Body autonomy, decision-making and integrity around one’s body and physical and intellectual fitness are essential to achieve gender equality Women’s ability to do what happens to their own bodies affects their ability to interact in economic, social and public life. and the situations in which they do so.
As such, we run the threat of general decline, for example in economic empowerment and women’s political participation. Body autonomy is a prerequisite for women’s ability to participate in the labour market and live an economically independent life.
Caprino: How does the Equal Generation Forum plan to promote gender equality and, in particular, to achieve the physical autonomy and sexual and reproductive fitness rights of girls?
Rener: The Equality Generation Forum is a multi-party global meeting, bringing together a wide variety of stakeholders to take an inventory of the progress we have made since Beijing’s historic Declaration and Agenda of Action, and to take ambitious steps towards full implementation. critical framework of the United Nations Decade of Action.
A coalition of action on reproductive sexual rights and physical self-sufficiency has been established, including actors from governments, foreign organizations, sector, civil society and youth, which presented its tables at the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico City on March 29. At the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, from June 30 to July 2, 2021, Acton Coalition will launch a five-year, multi-year programme, a stakeholder-led plan to drive progress.
Here are some of the key spaces of interest:
1) Increase the delivery of comprehensive sex education within and outside 50 million more children, adolescents and young people in all their diversity by 2026.
(2) In a global framework that includes SDSR facilities as an essential component of universal physical care, improving quality and access to contraceptive facilities for another 50 million adolescent women and women in all their diversity; the elimination of restrictive policies and legal barriers, ensuring that another 50 million adolescent women and women in all their diversity live in jurisdictions where they can access safe and legal abortion until 2026.
3) By converting gender norms and expanding the wisdom of rights, empowering 260 million more girls, adolescents and their diversity to make independent decisions about their bodies, their sexuality and their reproduction until 2026.
4) Adopt legal and political adjustments and publicize physical autonomy and SDSR in at least 20 countries until 2026.
5) Increase accountability, participation and organizations of feminist and autonomous women (including women’s and adolescent-led organizations and groups, as well as indigenous organizations and groups), human rights defenders and peacemakers. physically publicize and protect autonomy and SDSRs.
The aim is for participants to make ambitious, monetary and sustainable commitments to gender equality, adding to sexual and reproductive fitness and rights and physical autonomy.
Caprino: What are the top critical moves that leaders, businesses and stakeholders can take today to take to meet the stage and increase momentum?
Rener: The autonomy of the body is closely related to the right to physical and intellectual fitness, which is an inclusive right and consists not only of receiving care for physical fitness, but also of the underlying determinants of fitness, such as access to food, nutrition, water. and sanitation, a pictorial environment and access to physical education and dataArray by adding sexual and reproductive aptitude. It also includes the right to informed consent, physical integrity and not to be subjected to torture, ill-treatment and destructive practices.
We want to better perceive how other rights are connected and that we cannot enjoy one right and that we are denied another. Leaders should also recognize that human rights violations are experienced based on context and cross-country factors such as race, age, sexuality, gender identity, socioeconomic status, etc.
Policymakers and leaders should ensure that policies and legislation are guided by women’s gender equality and empowerment goals; that all women will have to be of all bureaucracy of violence, abuse and exploitation, as well as discrimination and stigma; and that all women have access to protection, fitness care and other services, adding the ability to make informed life choices.
We need leaders to commit to coalitions of action. Commitments would possibly include:
They will have to change the rules of the game, be scalable, measurable and, preferably, be carried out with other stakeholders.
For more information, https://forum. generationequality. org/home.
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