As the world comes together to celebrate women and girls across the globe who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities today, the United Nation’s Women Executive Director, Sima Bahous has added her voice to the call for wars to stop.
In a message to celebrate the day, she said the war in Ukraine has displaced thousands of people including women and girls and it reminds us that all conflicts exert the highest price on women and girls.
She explained that acceleration in crises of climate change and environmental degradation are disproportionately undermining the rights and wellbeing of women and girls with multiplying insecurity at all levels from individual and household to national.
But she however emphasized by saying that “climate change is a threat multiplier but women, and especially young women are solution multipliers.”
To her, “the world must take the opportunity today, to put women and girls at the center of planning and action and to help integrate gender perspectives into global and national laws and policies”.
Sima Bahous believes now is the opportunity to rethink, reframe and reallocate resources as there is also the opportunity to benefit from the leadership of women and girls, environmental defenders, and climate activists to guide the planet’s conservation.
She adds that the intergenerational knowledge, practices, and skills of indigenous women will take unprecedented levels of global corporation and solidarity to succeed.
“But there is no alternative to success. We must protect our hard-won games on human rights and women’s rights and lead decisively to leave no woman or girl behind,” she intimated.
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Source: ATLFMNEWS
