from United Nations Human Rights Facebook Page: 3-6-2015 A UN expert group warned that progress and achievements made over the last hundred years in the fight for women’s equality are under constant threat. “We are seeing regressive signs, often in the name of culture, religion, and traditions, that threaten the hard-fought progress in achieving women’s equality,” the experts said, speaking ahead of International Women’s Day (Sunday 8 March).
http://sm.ohchr.org/1FjFc9HThe human rights experts noted that “discrimination against women persists in both public and private spheres, in times of conflict as in times of peace, and in developing as in developed countries. “No country in the world has yet achieved full substantive equality of women,” they stressed.
“Violence against women remains pervasive”, they said. “We continue to
witness, in the name of perceived honour, beauty, purity and tradition,
girls and women are subject to ‘honor killings’, child marriages, and
female genital mutilation.”
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