Be part of us on 8 March 2025 to rejoice Worldwide Ladies’s Day below the theme “For ALL ladies and women: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.”
This yr, on Worldwide Ladies’s Day, we transfer from dedication to motion, because the theme requires unlocking equal rights, energy, and alternatives for all. Our imaginative and prescient is a feminist future the place nobody is left behind. On the coronary heart of this imaginative and prescient is empowering the subsequent era – youth, notably younger ladies and adolescent women – as drivers of lasting change.
Because the world comes collectively to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Motion – adopted in 1995 at a time of change – this yr serves as a pivotal yr to rejoice achievements, acknowledge the persistent and rising challenges, name for accountability, and, most significantly, recommit to accelerating the achievement of gender equality and girls’s empowerment.
But, the world stays deeply unequal. Worldwide Ladies’s Day presents one other likelihood to rise, demand motion, and push for the total implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Motion to create a extra equal and higher world for everybody. For ALL ladies and women.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day, be part of UN Ladies to march ahead for girls’s rights. We can not afford a step again.
In figuring out and pushing ahead for progress, there may be hope.
- For 89 per cent of governments, ending violence towards ladies is a high precedence as we speak, and 193 international locations have authorized measures towards it.
- Knowledge exhibits that international locations with home violence legal guidelines have seen much less circumstances of violence towards ladies.
- A lot of the world has reached parity in schooling. By bridging the gender hole in accessing and shaping science and expertise, we clear the remaining bottlenecks to equal alternatives and create expertise that serves extra folks and the planet.
- Extra States have strengthened care companies and 32 per cent of nations globally now promote higher pay and protected working circumstances for care staff.
- There are 112 international locations with a nationwide plan to interact ladies in peace and safety processes – a major improve from 19 international locations in 2010.
A digital revolution
Again the International Digital Compact so that everybody can profit from expertise and its potential.
Zero violence
Put money into ladies’s rights organizations already working to stop and finish violence.
Freedom from poverty
Put money into social safety techniques and public companies to provide ladies an equal likelihood to thrive.
Peace and safety
Put money into ladies’s management to construct peace.
Determination-making energy
Undertake legal guidelines that assist ladies’s participation in politics and enterprise.
Local weather justice
Prioritize ladies and women in local weather motion by boosting their management and entry to inexperienced jobs.
Equality. Rights. Empowerment.
Share Worldwide Ladies’s Day tales and messages on digital platforms, utilizing the hashtag #ForAllWomenAndGirls to spark dialogue and encourage motion.