{"id":26256,"date":"2025-03-11T07:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=26256"},"modified":"2025-03-11T07:01:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:01:24","slug":"womens-rights-under-threat-as-csw69-open-secy-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=26256","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s rights under threat as CSW69 open, Secy General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ME14245-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ME14245-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ME14245-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ME14245-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/ME14245.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New York : The 69th session of the United Nations\u2019 Commission on the Status of Women began two weeks of work to assess women\u2019s progress globally since the Beijing Declaration of 1995 affirmed the need for gender equality.<br>The event \u2014 which includes political leaders, diplomats, representatives of non-governmental and advocacy groups as well as representatives of women\u2019s congregations \u2014 will also try to determine what steps are needed going forward.<br>Pakistan is being represented by a six-member delegation which includes Dr. Nafisa Shah, Zartaj Gul and the National Assembly Deputy Speaker, Syed Ghulam Mustafa.<br>Opening the conference, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Women\u2019s rights are under siege, as the poison of patriarchy is back \u2013 and it is back with a vengeance.<br>\u201cNow is the time for those of us who care about equality for women and girls to stand up and to speak out,\u201d he said.<br>\u201cNow is the time for the world to accelerate progress and deliver on the promise of Beijing.\u201d<br>Noting that in In the past thirty years, the world has moved forward, the UN chief said, \u201cIn boosting girls\u2019 education, cutting maternal mortality, increasing legal protections, and more. But immense gaps persist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noting that age-old horrors like violence, discrimination, and economic inequality are rife, he said, the gender pay gap still stands at twenty percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGlobally, almost one in three women have been subject to violence,\u201d Guterres said.<br>\u201cAnd horrific sexual violence in conflict is happening from Haiti to Sudan.\u201d<br>In Afghanistan, he said, women and girls have been stripped of their most basic rights \u2013 forbidden even from raising their voices in public.<br>Meanwhile, the UN chief said new technologies \u2013 including Artificial Intelligence \u2013 are creating the conditions to allow new platforms for violence and abuse, normalizing misogyny and online revenge.<br>\u201cUp to 95 per cent of all online deepfakes are non-consensual pornographic images. 90 per cent depict women\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York : The 69th session of the United Nations\u2019 Commission on the Status of Women began two weeks of work to assess women\u2019s progress globally since the Beijing Declaration&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[2382,965,2576],"class_list":["post-26256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-main-stories","tag-secretary-general-united-nations","tag-un-women-pakistan","tag-women-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26258,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256\/revisions\/26258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}